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

Belle and Bob: Partners in Politics

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

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$12.95
Picture of The Bingo Queens of Oneida: How Two Moms Started Tribal Gaming in Wisconsin

The Bingo Queens of Oneida: How Two Moms Started Tribal Gaming in Wisconsin

Paperback: $16.95
216 pages, 31 b&w photos, 2 maps
ISBN: 9780870206528

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$16.95
Book cover of "A Brave and Lovely Woman" with title in red font and black and white portrait of Mamah Borthwick.

A Brave and Lovely Woman

The first detailed portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright’s fascinating and complex mistress. Careful research and engaging prose unfurl one of America’s most famous tragedies.
$34.95
Caroline Quarlls book cover with graphic of Caroline surrounded by blue and dark blue border

Caroline Quarlls and the Underground Railroad

Paperback: $12.95
120 pages, 43 photos, 6 maps, 7 x 9"
ISBN: 9780870203886

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$12.95
Cindy Bentley book cover featuring image of Cindy surrounded by brown with blue border

Cindy Bentley: Spirit of a Champion

Paperback
102 pages, 60 b/w photos and illus., 7 x 9"
ISBN: 9780870204562

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$12.95
Cordelia Harvey book cover featuring  image of Cordelia surrounded by pink and brown border

Cordelia Harvey: Civil War Angel

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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$12.95
Dr. Kate book cover featuring image of Dr.Kate surrounded by pink and brown border

Dr. Kate: Angel on Snowshoes

Paperback: $12.95
104 pages, 56 b/w photos, 7 x 9"
ISBN: 9780870204210

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$12.95
Electa Quinney book cover featuring image of Electa surrounded by brown and green border

Electa Quinney: Stockbridge Teacher

Paperback: $12.95
128 pages, 45 b&w photos and illus., 1 map
ISBN:9780870206412

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$12.95
Book cover of Enslaved, Indentured, Free showing image of journal writing on top, with a middle section including a dark side silhouette of a woman and an orange background, and then the bottom displaying an illustration of the wilderness with a river and hills.

Enslaved, Indentured, Free: Five Black Women on the Upper Mississippi, 1800-1850

Enslaved, Indentured, Free shines a light on five extraordinary Black women whose lives intersected in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, during seminal years of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787.

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press
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$24.95
The Farm on Badger Creek book cover featuring young girl holding a children on farm

The Farm on Badger Creek: Memories of a Midwest Girlhood

Small town Wisconsin native Peggy Prilaman Marxen recounts her family's rural farming life and its evolution from her settler ancestors to the modern day.

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$20.00
Fran and Frederick Hamerstrom book cover featuring image of Fran and Frederick surrounded by green with yellow border

Fran and Frederick Hamerstrom: Wildlife Conservation Pioneers

A Badger Biography
Paperback: $12.95
136 pages, 55 B&W photos
ISBN:9780870207327

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$12.95
Picture of History of Wisconsin Volume V: War, a New Era, and Depression 1914-1940

History of Wisconsin Volume V: War, a New Era, and Depression 1914-1940

Hardcover: $40.00
642 pp, photos, maps
ISBN:9780870202605

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$40.00
Joyce Westerman book cover featuring image of Joyce surrounded by white with black border

Joyce Westerman: Baseball Hero

A Badger Biography
Paperback: $12.95
120 pages, 64 b/w photos and 1 map, 7 x 9
ISBN: 9780870204869

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press
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$12.95
Juliette Kinzie book cover featuring illustration of Juliette surrounded by yellow with blue border

Juliette Kinzie: Frontier Storyteller

Paperback: $12.95
123 pages, 65 B&W images, 2 maps, 7x9
ISBN: 9780870207013

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$12.95
Cover of the book "Letters from Clara" with photo of a woman on a camel with pyramids in the background.

Letters from Clara: One Intrepid Woman's Travels on the Eve of War, 1936-1939

Relish the real-life, epic journey of intrepid Wisconsin voyageur, Clara Pagel, who ventured into the world just prior to the start of World War II, chronicling her travels and the state of the world—from bombings and earthquakes to Mussolini and Gandhi—in more than 100 letters to YWCA members back home.

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press
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$22.95
Little Leaders book cover featuring illustrations of black women in history

Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History

An educational children's story that features prominent black women in history who have helped to better the world. Full-color illustrations throughout.
$16.99
Love and Other Letters book cover featuring two black and white photographs of individuals and different handwritten letters

Love and Other Letters

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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$14.95
Picture of Mary Nohl: A Lifetime in Art

Mary Nohl: A Lifetime in Art

Paperback: $12.95
136 pages, 60 b/w photos, 20 image color gallery
ISBN: 9780870205774

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$12.95
Mai Ya's Long Journey book cover featuring image of Mai surrounded by pink with green border

Mai Ya's Long Journey

Mai Ya's Long Journey follows Mai Ya Xiong, a young Hmong woman, from her childhood in Thailand's Ban Vinai Refugee Camp to her current home in Wisconsin.

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$12.95
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

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
Picture of Mountain Wolf Woman: A Ho-Chunk Girlhood

Mountain Wolf Woman: A Ho-Chunk Girlhood

Paperback: $12.95
88 pages, 55 photos and illus., 8 maps, 7 x 9"
ISBN:9780870203817

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$12.95
My Life with the Green & Gold: Tales from 20 Years of Sportscasting

My Life with the Green & Gold: Tales from 20 Years of Sportscasting

Paperback: $18.95
240 p, 40 b&w photos
ISBN: 9780870206191

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$18.95
Picture of On a Clear Night - Essays from the Heartland

On a Clear Night - Essays from the Heartland

Paperback: $20.00
192 pages, 1 b&w photo, 5 ½ x 8 ½
ISBN: 9780870208249

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$20.00
On Wisconsin Women: Working for Their Rights from Settlement to Suffrage

On Wisconsin Women: Working for Their Rights from Settlement to Suffrage

Wisconsin is known as the home of the Progressive party. But, in the words of a suffragist in 1912, "The last thing a man becomes progressive about is the activities of his wife." Learn more about women's rights to vote and the Wisconsin women who made it possible.
$26.95
Return to Wake Robin Audio Book

Return to Wake Robin | Audiobook

Audiobook: $34.95
5 Disc CD format
ISBN: 9780870206559

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$34.95
Ship Captain’s Daughter: Growing Up on the Great Lakes

Ship Captain’s Daughter: Growing Up on the Great Lakes

Paperback
112 pages, 60 b&w photos, 5½ x 8½
ISBN: 9780870207303

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$14.95
Somos Latinas

Somos Latinas: Voices of Wisconsin Latina Activists

Paperback, $24.95
302 pages, 38 b&w photos, 6 x 9
ISBN: 978-0-87020-859-1

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$24.95
Tending the Valley by Alice D’Alessio

Tending the Valley: A Prairie Restoration Odyssey

On a gray and drizzly day in 1983, writer Alice D’Alessio and her math professor husband, Laird, made their way down a curving, tree-lined driveway on their way to a picnic. They were visiting 115 acres of land in Wisconsin’s unglaciated Driftless Area that Laird had inherited from his parents. Emerging from the trees, Alice had her first glimpse of the valley that would become a twenty-five-year labor of love for the couple. Details, below.

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$15.95
Thousand-Miler

Thousand-Miler: Adventures Hiking the Ice Age Trail

Paperback: $20.00
240 pages, 2 maps, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
ISBN: 9780870207907

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$20.00
Useful Work for Unskilled Women book cover with various women making handcrafts

Useful Work for Unskilled Women: A Unique Milwaukee WPA Project

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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$24.95
Vel Phillips: Dream Big Dreams DVD

Vel Phillips: Dream Big Dreams | DVD

Produced by Wisconsin Public Television
Running time 60 minutes
$19.95
Picture of Women Remember the War, 1941-1945

Women Remember the War, 1941-1945

Paperback: $15.95
168 pages, 41 b&w photos, 6 x 9
ISBN: 9780870202728

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$15.95
Picture of Women's Wisconsin: From Native Matriarchies to the New Millenium

Women's Wisconsin: From Native Matriarchies to the New Millenium

Paperback: $37.95
512 pp, photos
ISBN: 0870203619

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$37.95