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      A City at War book cover featuring various black and white images of Milwaukee workers

      A City at War: Milwaukee Labor During WWII

      9780870207297
      Paperback: $24.95
      228 pages, 6 x 9
      ISBN:9780870207297

      Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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      $24.95
      Wisconsin Indians book cover featuring a black and white image of a Native American family . Yellow and orange bordering.

      Wisconsin Indians (Revised and Expanded)

      9780870203305
      Paperback: $9.95
      88 pp, photos
      ISBN: 9780870203305

      Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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      $9.95
      Workers and Unions in Wisconsin book cover featuring two black and white photographs. The top half of cover shows old Milwaukee city, and the bottom is workers all posing for camera.

      Workers and Unions in Wisconsin: A Labor History Anthology

      9780870203145
      Paperback: $24.95
      296 pages, 148 b/w photos and illus., 8.5 x 11"
      ISBN: 9780870203145

      Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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      $24.95
      Picture of History of Wisconsin Volume III: Industrialization and Urbanization 1873-1893

      History of Wisconsin Volume III: Industrialization and Urbanization 1873-1893

      9780870202438
      Hardcover: $40.00
      693 pp, illustrated, photos
      ISBN: 9780870202438

      Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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      $40.00
      Picture of History of Wisconsin Volume IV: The Progressive Era 1893-1914

      History of Wisconsin Volume IV: The Progressive Era 1893-1914

      9780870203039
      Hardcover: $40.00
      734 pp, photos
      ISBN:9780870203039

      Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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      $40.00
      Picture of History of Wisconsin Volume VI: Continuity and Change 1940-1965

      History of Wisconsin Volume VI: Continuity and Change 1940-1965

      9780870202544
      Hardcover: $40.00
      830 pp, photos, maps
      ISBN: 9780870202544

      Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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      $40.00
      Fighting Son book cover featuring image of Phillip La Follette with black background

      Fighting Son: A Biography of Philip F. La Follette

      9780870203534
      Paperback: $22.95
      360 pp, illustrated, photographs, maps
      ISBN: 9780870203534

      Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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      $22.95
      Odd Wisconsin

      Odd Wisconsin: Amusing, Perplexing, and Unlikely Stories from Wisconsin's Past

      9780870203831
      Paperback: $16.95
      200 pp, illustrations, 5.5" x 6.5"
      ISBN:9780870203831

      Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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      $16.95
      Belle and Bob book cover featuring image of Belle and Bob surrounded by light tan and red border

      Belle and Bob: Partners in Politics

      9780870204074
      Paperback: $12.95
      144 pages, 83 photos, 7 x 9"
      ISBN: 9780870204074

      Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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      $12.95
      Fighting Bob La Follette book cover featuring black and white image of La Follettte

      Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer

      9780870204265
      Paperback: $22.95
      416 pages, 37 b/w photos and illus., 6.125 x 9.25"
      ISBN: 9780870204265

      Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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      $22.95
      Picture of A Short History of Wisconsin

      A Short History of Wisconsin

      9780870204401
      A Short History of Wisconsin offers a fresh understanding of how Wisconsin came into being and how Wisconsinites past and present share a deep connection to the land itself.
      $18.95
      Picture of The Labor Movement In Wisconsin: A History

      The Labor Movement In Wisconsin: A History

      9780870204951
      Paperback: $24.95
      304 pages, 41 b/w photos, 6 x9
      ISBN: 9780870204951

      Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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      $24.95
      Blue Jenkins book cover featuring image of Blue surrounded by blue with red border

      Blue Jenkins: Working for Workers

      9780870204272
      Paperback: $12.95
      160 pages, 86 b/w photos, illus., and maps, 7 x 9"
      ISBN: 9780870204272

      Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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      $12.95
      Picture of Risking Everything: A Freedom Summer Reader

      Risking Everything: A Freedom Summer Reader

      9780870206788
      Paperback: $18.95
      256 pages, 19 b&w photos, 1 map
      ISBN: 9780870206788

      Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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      $18.95
      Picture of Skunk Hill: A Native Ceremonial Community in Wisconsin

      Skunk Hill: A Native Ceremonial Community in Wisconsin

      9780870207051
      Archeologist Robert A. Birmingham traces the largely unknown story of this community, detailing the role it played in preserving Native culture through a harsh period of US Indian policy from the 1880s to 1930s.
      $14.95
      Milwaukee Mayhem: Murder and Mystery in the Cream City’s First Century

      Milwaukee Mayhem: Murder and Mystery in the Cream City’s First Century

      9780870207167
      From murder and matchstick men to all-consuming fires, painted women, and Great Lakes disasters--and the wide-eyed public who could not help but gawk at it all—Milwaukee Mayhem uncovers the little-remembered and rarely told history of the underbelly of a Midwestern metropolis.
      $19.95
      Educating Milwaukee book cover featuring black and white image of segregation protest

      Educating Milwaukee: How One City’s History of Segregation and Struggle Shaped Its Schools

      9780870207204
      Paperback: $24.95
      288 pages, 12 maps, 6 x 9
      ISBN: 9780870207204

      Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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      $24.95
      Autobiography of Meta Berger book cover with image of Meta Berger amongst black background

      A Milwaukee Woman’s Life on the Left: The Autobiography of Meta Berger

      9780870203220
      Paperback: $15.95
      224 pages, 24 b & w photos an dillus, 6 x 9
      ISBN: 9780870203220

      Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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      $15.95
      How to Be an Indian in the 21st Century

      How to Be an Indian in the 21st Century

      9780870208157
      Warm, plainspoken, and wryly funny, Clark shares his own American Indian story, talking frankly about a culture’s struggle to maintain its heritage.

      Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press
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      $15.95
      The Great War Comes to Wisconsin: Sacrifice, Patriotism, and Free Speech in a Time of Crisis

      The Great War Comes to Wisconsin: Sacrifice, Patriotism, and Free Speech in a Time of Crisis

      9780870207822
      Paperback: $26.95
      240 pages, b&w photos, 6 x 9
      ISBN: 9780870207822

      Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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      $26.95
      Justice for All

      Justice for All: Selected Writings of Lloyd A. Barbee

      9780870208386
      Paperback: $26.95
      304 pages, 34 b&w photos, 6 x 9
      ISBN: 9780870208386

      Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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      $26.95
      How to Make a Life: A Tibetan Refugee Family and the Midwestern Woman They Adopted

      How to Make a Life: A Tibetan Refugee Family and the Midwestern Woman They Adopted

      9780870208553
      Paperback: $22.95
      240 pages, 29 b&w and color photos, 5 ½ x 8 ½
      ISBN: 978-0-87020-855-3

      Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

      For Trade, Library, and Wholesale
      $22.95
      Picture of The Story of Act 31: How Native History Came to Wisconsin Classrooms

      The Story of Act 31: How Native History Came to Wisconsin Classrooms

      9780870208324
      Paperback: $28.95
      360 pages, 6 x 9
      ISBN: 978-0-87020-832-4

      Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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      $28.95
      Madison in the Sixties

      Madison in the Sixties

      9780870208836
      Paperback: $29.95
      432 pages, 161 b/w illus., 8x9
      ISBN: 978-0-87020-883-6

      Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

      For Library, Trade, and Wholesale
      $29.95
      Picture of Proxmire: Bulldog of the Senate

      Proxmire: Bulldog of the Senate

      9780870209086
      Remembered by many Wisconsinites as a friendly, hand-shaking fixture at sporting events and state fairs, Proxmire was one of the few politicians who voted his conscience and never forgot about the people he represented.
      $28.95
      Civilian Conservation Corps in Wisconsin book cover

      The Civilian Conservation Corps in Wisconsin: Nature's Army at Work

      9780870209048
      Captured in rich prose are the voices of the CCC boys who, by preserving Wisconsin's natural beauty between 1933 and 1942, discovered purpose in their labor and founded an enduring legacy of environmental stewardship.
      $22.95 $17.21
      Patrick Lucey Book

      Patrick J. Lucey - A Lasting Legacy

      9780870209369

      As Wisconsin governor from 1971 to 1977, Patrick J. Lucey pursued an ambitious progressive agenda, tempered by the concerns of a fiscal conservative and a pragmatic realist. His legacy continues to impact Wisconsin residents and communities. Details, below.

      Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press
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      $28.95
      Hmong in Wisconsin

      Hmong in Wisconsin

      9780870209420
      Told with a blend of scholarly research, interviews, and personal experience of the author, this latest addition to the popular "People of Wisconsin" series shares the Hmong’s varied stories of survival and hope as they have joined Wisconsin communities.

      Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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      $12.95
      Coming Out, Moving Forward book cover featuring various images of Wisconsin residents both in black and white and colored images

      Coming Out, Moving Forward - Wisconsin's Recent Gay History

      9780870209277
      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.

      Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press
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      $28.95
      "Constitución de Los Estados Unidos De América is written in gold on a dark blue background

      Constitución de Los Estados Unidos De América

      10000675
      The Constitution of the United States in Spanish
      $9.95 $4.98
      Book cover of Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution Volume 37. Bill of Rights Book 1

      The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, Volume 37 – Bill of Rights, Book 1

      9780870209444
      The first in a planned six-volume series examining the intense debate over the drafting and ratification of the first Ten Amendments to the Constitution. The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution series is a reference collection that aims to preserve the state-by-state debates about the ratification of the United States Constitution. Details below.
      $95.00
      Make Way for Liberty - book cover

      Make Way for Liberty: Wisconsin African Americans in the Civil War

      9780870209468

      Hundreds of African American soldiers and regimental employees represented Wisconsin in the Civil War, and many of them lived in the state either before or after the conflict. And yet, if these individuals are mentioned at all in histories of the state, it is with a sentence or two about their small numbers.... Full details below.

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      $24.95
      Suffrage Buttons

      Cast Your Vote Buttons

      10000379
      Turn heads at the polls with buttons that celebrate the democratic process.
      $1.95 $0.49
      The Sower and the Seer

      The Sower and the Seer: Perspectives on the Intellectual History of the American Midwest

      9780870209482
      The Midwestern landscape has given rise to significant visionaries whose extraordinary intellectualism has contributed to forming an American identity.
      $39.95
      Coming Out, Moving Forward Audiobook cover featuring various illustrations of Wisconsin folks both in black and white and colored images

      Coming Out, Moving Forward - Wisconsin's Recent Gay History | Audiobook

      9780870209765
      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.

      Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press
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      $39.95 $19.98
      Cover of fall 2022 issue of the Wisconsin Magazine of History with full page black and white photo of Helen Barnhill after 1988 election. A child is hugging her.

      Fall 2022 | Wisconsin Magazine of History

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      Two Trailblazing Black Women in the Republican Party. Wisconsin's "Plaster Doctor: Quack or Cure?" Book Excerpt: "Wisconsin Waters." More!
      $10.00
      Cover of the Summer 2020 edition of the Wisconsin Magazine of History with full page, black and white portrait of writer Zona Gale.

      Summer 2020 | Wisconsin Magazine of History

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      Zona Gale and the So-called School of Wisconsin Authors. Outside Artist Sid Boyum. Book Excerpt: "Hmong in Wisconsin." More!
      $10.00
      Cover of the Summer 2019 edition of the Wisconsin Magazine of History with full page black and white photo of Theodora Winton Youmans dated circa 1915.

      Summer 2019 | Wisconsin Magazine of History

      14000002
      Winning Women's Suffrage. Lead Mining & Slavery. Book Excerpt: "Proxmire: Bulldog of the Senate." More!
      $10.00
      Full page color photo dated 1935 of father and mother with four children as they prepare to settle in Alaska.

      Winter 2019 | Wisconsin Magazine of History

      14000003
      From the Northwoods to Alaska. John Muir's University Days. Book Excerpt: "Job Man." More!
      $10.00
      Book cover for "Wisconsin for Kennedy" with black and white photo of JFK outside. Snow is falling and he smiles for the camera. Several people in background.

      Wisconsin for Kennedy

      9781976600173
      Author B.J. Hollars chronicles JFK’s nail-biting Wisconsin win by drawing on rarely cited oral histories from the eclectic team of people who worked together to make it happen: a cranberry farmer, a union leader, a mayor, an architect, and others.
      $24.95
      "FATES and TRAITORS" is written in large bold white letters, surrounded by red floral patterns. In the background is a black and white image of two people. Above the title, the author's name "JENNIFER CHIAVERINI," is written in white text. Below the title, in white script, "A novel of JOHN WILKES BOOTH," is written.

      Fates and Traitors: A Novel of John Wilkes Booth

      9780525954309
      Fates and Traitors is a historical fiction that brings to life pivotal actors who made an indelible mark on the history of the United States.
      $27.00 $13.50
      At the top of the cover, in large white letters, "TOMMY" is written on a dark blue background. Below that, there is a photograph of Tommy G. Thompson at a podium giving the thumbs up gesture. Under the photograph, the subtitle "MY JOURNEY OF A LIFETIME" is written in white text. Below the subtitle, the author's names, "TOMMY G THOMPSON AND DOUG MOE" are written in red.

      Tommy: My Journey of a Lifetime

      9780299320805
      This autobiography of Tommy G. Thompson follows this politician's journey from his unprecedented four terms as Wisconsin governor to his time as a cabinet secretary under George W. Bush.
      $29.95 $14.98
      This cover features a large black and white photograph of Martin Luther King Jr's face on the right with the title written on top. "MARCHING to the MOUNTAINTOP," is written in white and green and "How Poverty, Labor Fights, and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King, Jr's Final Hours" is written below in smaller, orange italics. At the bottom of the cover, the author's name "Ann Bausum," is written in white italics. The lower half of the cover is a black and white photograph of protesters fighting for equality and rights.

      Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty, Labor Rights and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King Jr's Final Hours

      9781426309397
      Ann Bausum chronicles the intertwining struggles of poverty, labor rights and civil rights culminating in the poignant final days of Martin Luther King Jr's life and his enduring legacy.
      $19.95 $9.98
      "Dear Delia: The Civil War Letters of Captain Henry F. Young," is written over a black and white image of Captain Henry F. Young that is printed on a piece of old weathered letters.

      Dear Delia: The Civil War Letters of Captain Henry F. Young

      9780299323608
      The Civil War as seen through the point of view of Captain Henry F. Young, as told through his 155 letters home.
      $29.95 $7.49
      "THE US CONGRESS FOR KIDS" is written in blue and white at the top of the cover. Below is an black and white photograph of the US Capitol building. Below the Captiol image, there are five images of people in Congress.

      The US Congress for Kids: Over 200 Years of Lawmaking, Deal-Breaking, and Compromising with 21 Activities

      9781613749777
      An interactive guide to the history and inner workings of the legislative branch of the U.S. Government
      $16.95 $8.48
      Within the blue borders of the cover, is a black and white image of a woman holding a torch. Above her, is the title of the book, "A Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions." Right above that is the author's name, "Elizabeth Cady Stanton."

      A Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions

      9781429096157
      A defining document in the women's rights movement in the United States. Author Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a leader in the women's rights movement during the mid to late 19th century.
      $9.95 $4.98
      "Wisconsin Hometown Stories: Janesville," is written over a map, a letter and photographs of the city and people in the past.

      Wisconsin Hometown Stories: Janesville | DVD

      WPTJAN
      The program examines how this town became an integral part of the state's growth, connecting Wisconsin's past to the present.
      $19.95
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