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This book examines the historic trends and battles which shaped Milwaukee, including the boundary wars of the 1950s and lawsuits over the polluting of Lake Michigan.

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The story of how Michael Cudahy and his friend and partner Warren Cozzens created Marquette Electronics, one of the miracles of modern business.

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Nancy Oestreich Lurie found a shopping bag filled with letters from her mother's childhood, and they turned out to be historically enlightening and entertaining.

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Lyle Oberwise spent a period of nearly 50 years collecting 43,00 color slides depicting Milwaukee's architecture and people.

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A pictorial and entertaining commentary on the growth and development of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Based on the popular series of posters published by the City of Milwaukee in the 1980s, this book features both historical chronicles and contemporary portraits of 37 neighborhoods that emerged before World War II

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Jones Island, originally a mile-long peninsula bordering on the Lake Michigan shoreline, has a long and fascinating history, including close ties to maritime industries and the rich ethnic heritage of Milwaukee.

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Mary Kellogg Rice describes a unique Milwaukee project in the post-Depression years which trained thousands of unskilled, uneducated women in the production of a variety of handicrafts.

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Paperback: $28.95
304 pages, 9 x 6
ISBN: 9780870209406

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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Coming Out, Moving Forward, the second volume in R. Richard Wagner’s groundbreaking work on gay history in Wisconsin, outlines the challenges that LGBT Wisconsinites faced in their efforts to right past oppressions and secure equality in the post-Stonewall period between 1969 and 2000. More details, below.

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The second volume in R. Richard Wagner’s groundbreaking work on gay history in Wisconsin explores the challenges that LGBT Wisconsinites faced in the post-Stonewall period between 1969 and 2000.

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Paperback: $12.95
128 pages, 55 b/w photos and 7 maps, 7 x 9"
ISBN: 9780870204586

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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