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Heavy Marching book cover.
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Heavy Marching
The Civil War Letters of Lute Moseley, 22nd Wisconsin
Lucius S. Moseley
Edited by Sara DeLuca

Spring 2023

Understanding and Teaching Contemporary US History since Reagan: Cover depicting an illustration of a red book with a hole shaped like the United States in the center of its cover. A wooden ladder emerges from the US shaped hole. Behind the cover is a blue, tiled background.
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Understanding and Teaching Contemporary US History since Reagan
Edited by Kimber M. Quinney and Amy L. Sayward
Fall 2022

In Defense of Sovereignty: a red and purple cover with white and purple corn-like tassles emerging from the top and bottom of the page. The title text is written in all capps in the center of the page, between the two corn-tassles.
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In Defense of Sovereignty
Protecting the Oneida Nation's Inherent Right to Self-Determination
Rebecca M. Webster
Fall 2022

The Divided States: a blue cover with a large red backslash across the page. The title text is written in contrasting white sarif font across the majority of the cover.
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The Divided States
Unraveling National Identities in the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Laura J. Beard and Ricia Anne Chansky
Fall 2022

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The Geography of Wisconsin
John A. Cross and Kazimierz J. Zaniewski
Fall 2021

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The Wongs of Beloit, Wisconsin
Beatrice McKenzie
Fall 2021

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Loving before Loving
A Marriage in Black and White
Joan Steinau Lester
Spring 2021

Understanding and Teaching the Civil Rights Movement: Cover of a black and white photo of a woman giving a speach at a protest for civil rights.
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Understanding and Teaching the Civil Rights Movement
Edited by Hasan Kwame Jeffries
Spring 2021 (paperback)

Defending the Masses: Cover art of a black and white photograph of Gilbert Roe leaning back at a chair, reading a piece of paper, shot through a doorway. The wall behind him is lined with books. The greyscale monotone is broken by the title text and author text, which are written in white font, but with a splash of bright red behind all of the text.
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Defending the Masses
A Progressive Lawyer's Battles for Free Speech
Eric B. Easton

Yaqui Resistance and Survival
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Yaqui Resistance and Survival
The Struggle for Land and Autonomy, 1821–1910
Revised Edition

Evelyn Hu-DeHart

Worse than the Devil
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Worse than the Devil
Anarchists, Clarence Darrow, and Justice in a Time of Terror
Revised Edition

Dean A. Strang

Power without Restraint
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Power without Restraint
The Post-9/11 Presidency and National Security
Chris Edelson
Spring 2016

American Surveillance
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American Surveillance
Intelligence, Privacy, and the Fourth Amendment
Anthony Gregory
Spring 2016

Eclipse of the Assassins
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Eclipse of the Assassins
The CIA, Imperial Politics, and the Slaying of Mexican Journalist Manuel Buendía
Russell H. Bartley and Sylvia Erickson Bartley
Fall 2015

Railroaders
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Railroaders
Jack Delano’s Homefront Photography
Edited by John Gruber
Fall 2015

Understanding and Teaching American Slavery
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Understanding and Teaching American Slavery
Edited by Bethany Jay and Cynthia Lynn Lyerly, Foreword by Ira Berlin
Fall 2015

A Mysterious Life and Calling
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A Mysterious Life and Calling
From Slavery to Ministry in South Carolina
Reverend Mrs. Charlotte S. Riley, Edited with an introduction by Crystal J. Lucky, Foreword by Joycelyn K. Moody
Fall 2015

Drift and Mastery
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Drift and Mastery
An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest
Walter Lippmann
Spring 2015

Pabst Farms
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Pabst Farms
The History of a Model Farm
John Eastberg
Fall 2014

Early African Entertainments Abroad
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Early African Entertainments Abroad
From the Hottentot Venus to Africa's First Olympians
Bernth Lindfors
Fall 2014

A Black Gambler’s World of Liquor, Vice, and Presidential Politics
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A Black Gambler’s World of Liquor, Vice, and Presidential Politics
William Thomas Scott of Illinois, 1839–1917
Bruce L. Mouser
Fall 2014

An American Diplomat in Bolshevik Russia
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An American Diplomat in Bolshevik Russia
DeWitt Clinton Poole / Edited by Lorraine M. Lees and William S. Rodner
Fall 2014

In a New Century
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In a New Century
Essays on Queer History, Politics, and Community Life
John D’Emilio
Spring 2014

The Round Barn, A Biography of an American Farm, Volume Three
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The Round Barn, A Biography of an American Farm, Volume Three
Ron’s Place, Breeders Co-op, Hybrid Corn, Neighbors, Town, and County
Jacqueline Dougan Jackson
Spring 2014

The Round Barn, A Biography of an American Farm, Volume Four
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The Round Barn, A Biography of an American Farm, Volume Four
The Farm to the World
Jacqueline Dougan Jackson
Spring 2014

Living a Land Ethic
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Living a Land Ethic
A History of Cooperative Conservation on the Leopold Memorial Reserve
Stephen A. Laubach
Spring 2014

The Cross of War
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The Cross of War
Christian Nationalism and U.S. Expansion in the Spanish-American War
Matthew McCullough
Spring 2014

Into New Territory
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Into New Territory
American Historians and the Concept of US Imperialism
James G. Morgan
Spring 2014

A Quiet Corner of the War
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A Quiet Corner of the War
The Civil War Letters of Gilbert and Esther Claflin, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, 1862–1863
Gilbert Claflin and Esther Claflin, Edited by Judy Cook
Fall 2013

It’s All a Kind of Magic
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It’s All a Kind of Magic
The Young Ken Kesey
Rick Dodgson
Fall 2013

The Education of an Anti-Imperialist
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The Education of an Anti-Imperialist
Robert La Follette and U.S. Expansion
Richard Drake
Fall 2013

Emergency Presidential Power
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Emergency Presidential Power
From the Drafting of the Constitution to the War on Terror
Chris Edelson
Fall 2013

The Round Barn: A Biography of an American Farm, Volume One
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The Round Barn: A Biography of an American Farm, Volume One
Silo and Barn, Milkhouse, Milk Routes
Jacqueline Dougan Jackson
Fall 2013

The Round Barn, A Biography of an American Farm, Volume Two
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The Round Barn, A Biography of an American Farm, Volume Two
The Big House, Around the Farm
Jacqueline Dougan Jackson
Fall 2013

The Perils of Normalcy
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The Perils of Normalcy
George L. Mosse and the Remaking of Cultural History
Karel Plessini
Fall 2013

The La Follettes of Wisconsin
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The La Follettes of Wisconsin
Love and Politics in Progressive America
Bernard A. Weisberger
Fall 2013

Voices from the Plain of Jars
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Voices from the Plain of Jars
Life under an Air War
Edited by Fred Branfman with essays and drawings by Laotian villagers
Spring 2013

Creating Old World Wisconsin
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Creating Old World Wisconsin
The Struggle to Build an Outdoor History Museum of Ethnic Architecture
John D. Krugler
Spring 2013

Cold War University
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Cold War University
Madison and the New Left in the Sixties
Matthew Levin
Spring 2013

Libraries and the Reading Public in Twentieth-Century America
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Libraries and the Reading Public in Twentieth-Century America
Edited by Christine Pawley and Louise S. Robbins
Spring 2013

American Evangelicals and the 1960s
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American Evangelicals and the 1960s
Edited by Axel R. Schäfer
Spring 2013

More than They Bargained For
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More than They Bargained For
Scott Walker, Unions, and the Fight for Wisconsin
Jason Stein and Patrick Marley
Spring 2013

Worse than the Devil
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Worse than the Devil
Anarchists, Clarence Darrow, and Justice in a Time of Terror
Dean A. Strang
Spring 2013

Sister
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Sister
An African American Life in Search of Justice
Sylvia Bell White and Jody LePage
Spring 2013

Almost Home
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Almost Home
A Brazilian American’s Reflections on Faith, Culture, and Immigration
H. B. Cavalcanti
Fall 2012

Channeling the Past
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Channeling the Past
Politicizing History in Postwar America
Erik Christiansen
Fall 2012

Against the Tide
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Against the Tide
Immigrants, Day Laborers, and Community in Jupiter, Florida
Sandra Lazo de la Vega and Timothy J. Steigenga
Fall 2012

Endless Empire
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Endless Empire
Spain’s Retreat, Europe’s Eclipse, America’s Decline
Edited by Alfred W. McCoy, Josep M. Fradera, and Stephen Jacobson
Fall 2012

Letters Home to Sarah
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Letters Home to Sarah
The Civil War Letters of Guy C. Taylor, Thirty-Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers
Guy C. Taylor, Edited by Kevin Alderson and Patsy Alderson
Fall 2012

Science in Print
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Science in Print
Essays on the History of Science and the Culture of Print
Edited by Rima D. Apple, Gregory J. Downey, and Stephen L. Vaughn
Spring 2012

The American Jeremiad
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The American Jeremiad
Sacvan Bercovitch
Spring 2012

Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Thought in Action
Mark Cirino
Spring 2012

Chicago Whispers
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Chicago Whispers
A History of LGBT Chicago before Stonewall
St. Sukie de la Croix
Spring 2012

Screen Nazis
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Screen Nazis
Cinema, History, and Democracy
Sabine Hake
Spring 2012

Torture and Impunity
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Torture and Impunity
The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation
Alfred W. McCoy
Spring 2012

The University and the People
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The University and the People
Envisioning American Higher Education in an Era of Populist Protest
Scott M. Gelber
Fall 2011

Proletpen
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Proletpen
America’s Rebel Yiddish Poets
Edited by Amelia Glaser and David Weintraub, Translated by Amelia Glaser
Fall 2011

US Expansionism
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US Expansionism
The Imperialist Urge in the 1890s
David Healy
Fall 2011

Life and Death on the Prairie
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Life and Death on the Prairie
Photographs and text by Stephen Longmire
Fall 2011

Countercultural Conservatives
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Countercultural Conservatives
American Evangelicalism from the Postwar Revival to the New Christian Right
Axel R. Schäfer
Fall 2011

Film and Genocide
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Film and Genocide
Edited by Kristi M. Wilson and Tomás F. Crowder-Taraborrelli
Fall 2011

Back to the Land
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Back to the Land
The Enduring Dream of Self-Sufficiency in Modern America
Dona Brown
Spring 2011

Robert Koehler’s <i>The Strike</i>
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Robert Koehler’s The Strike
The Improbable Story of an Iconic 1886 Painting of Labor Protest
James M. Dennis
Spring 2011

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin
Illustrated by Vintage Postcards
Randolph C. Henning
Spring 2011

Environmental Politics and the Creation of a Dream
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Environmental Politics and the Creation of a Dream
Establishing the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore
Harold C. Jordahl Jr., with Annie L. Booth
Spring 2011

When Horses Pulled the Plow
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When Horses Pulled the Plow
Life of a Wisconsin Farm Boy, 1910–1929
Olaf F. Larson
Spring 2011

A Muslim American Slave
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A Muslim American Slave
The Life of Omar Ibn Said
Omar Ibn Said, Translated from the Arabic, edited, and with an introduction by Ala Alryyes
Spring 2011

For Labor, Race, and Liberty
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For Labor, Race, and Liberty
George Edwin Taylor, His Historic Run for the White House, and the Making of Independent Black Politics
Bruce L. Mouser
Fall 2010

H. H. Bennett, Photographer
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H. H. Bennett, Photographer
His American Landscape
Sara Rath
Fall 2010

Glimpses into My Own Black Box
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Glimpses into My Own Black Box
An Exercise in Self-Deconstruction
George W. Stocking, Jr.
Fall 2010

Creating the College Man
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Creating the College Man
American Mass Magazines and Middle-Class Manhood, 1890–1915
Daniel A. Clark
Spring 2010

Sawdusted
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Sawdusted
Notes from a Post-Boom Mill
Raymond Goodwin
Spring 2010

Education and the Culture of Print in Modern America
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Education and the Culture of Print in Modern America
Edited by Adam R. Nelson and John L. Rudolph
Spring 2010

Refuge Denied
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Refuge Denied
The St. Louis Passengers and the Holocaust
Sarah A. Ogilvie and Scott Miller, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Spring 2010

Spirits of Earth
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Spirits of Earth
The Effigy Mound Landscape of Madison and the Four Lakes
Robert A. Birmingham
Fall 2009

Dane County Place-Names
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Dane County Place-Names
Frederic G. Cassidy, New introduction by Tracy Will
Fall 2009

The Captain Frederick Pabst Mansion
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The Captain Frederick Pabst Mansion
An Illustrated History
John C. Eastberg
Fall 2009

Thoreau’s Democratic Withdrawal
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Thoreau’s Democratic Withdrawal
Alienation, Participation, and Modernity
Shannon L. Mariotti
Fall 2009

Policing America’s Empire
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Policing America’s Empire
The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State
Alfred W. McCoy
Fall 2009

North Woods River
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North Woods River
The St. Croix River in Upper Midwest History
Eileen M. McMahon and Theodore J. Karamanski
Fall 2009

The Trashing of Margaret Mead
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The Trashing of Margaret Mead
Anatomy of an Anthropological Controversy
Paul Shankman
Fall 2009

Mark Twain’s Own Autobiography
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Mark Twain’s Own Autobiography
The Chapters from the North American Review
Mark Twain, Edited by Michael J. Kiskis, Foreword by Sheila Leary
Fall 2009

Turkish Migration to the United States
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Turkish Migration to the United States
From Ottoman Times to the Present
Edited by Kemal H. Karpat and A. Deniz Balgamis
Spring 2009

Emerson’s Liberalism
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Emerson’s Liberalism
Neal Dolan
Spring 2009

Conjoined Twins in Black and White
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Conjoined Twins in Black and White
The Lives of Millie-Christine McKoy and Daisy and Violet Hilton
Edited by Linda Frost
Spring 2009

Colonial Crucible
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Colonial Crucible
Empire in the Making of the Modern American State
Edited by Alfred W. McCoy and Francisco A. Scarano
Spring 2009

Education and Democracy
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Education and Democracy
The Meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn, 1872–1964
Adam R. Nelson
Spring 2009

Democracy in Print
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Democracy in Print
The Best of The Progressive Magazine, 1909–2009
Edited by Matthew Rothschild
Spring 2009

Imaginary Friends
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Imaginary Friends
Representing Quakers in American Culture, 1650–1950
James Emmett Ryan
Spring 2009

Crunch!
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Crunch!
A History of the Great American Potato Chip
Dirk Burhans
Fall 2008

Picturing Indians
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Picturing Indians
Photographic Encounters and Tourist Fantasies in H. H. Bennett's Wisconsin Dells
Steven D. Hoelscher
Fall 2008

Seaway to the Future
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Seaway to the Future
American Social Visions and the Construction of the Panama Canal
Alexander Missal
Fall 2008

Unsafe for Democracy
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Unsafe for Democracy
World War I and the U.S. Justice Department’s Covert Campaign to Suppress Dissent
William H. Thomas Jr.
Fall 2008

Religion and the Culture of Print in Modern America
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Religion and the Culture of Print in Modern America
Edited by Charles L. Cohen and Paul S. Boyer
Spring 2008

Bloodstoppers and Bearwalkers
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Bloodstoppers and Bearwalkers
Folk Traditions of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
Richard M. Dorson, Edited and with an introduction by James P. Leary
Spring 2008

Wisconsin Votes
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Wisconsin Votes
An Electoral History
Robert Booth Fowler
Spring 2008

Along Wisconsin’s Ice Age Trail
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Along Wisconsin’s Ice Age Trail
Photographs by Bart Smith, Edited by Eric Sherman and Andrew Hanson III
Spring 2008

With Honor
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With Honor
Melvin Laird in War, Peace, and Politics
Dale Van Atta
Spring 2008

Ireland’s New Worlds
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Ireland’s New Worlds
Immigrants, Politics, and Society in the United States and Australia, 1815–1922
Malcolm Campbell
Fall 2007

Margaret Fuller
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Margaret Fuller
Transatlantic Crossings in a Revolutionary Age
Edited by Charles Capper and Cristina Giorcelli
Fall 2007

Raising Hell for Justice
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Raising Hell for Justice
The Washington Battles of a Heartland Progressive
David R. Obey
Fall 2007

Around the Shores of Lake Superior
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Around the Shores of Lake Superior
A Guide to Historic Sites
Margaret Beattie Bogue
Spring 2007

Wisconsin German Land and Life
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Wisconsin German Land and Life
Edited by Heike Bungert, Cora Lee Kluge, and Robert C. Ostergren
Fall 2006

Lowering the Bar
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Lowering the Bar
Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture
Marc Galanter
Fall 2006

Madison
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Madison
The Illustrated Sesquicentennial History, Volume 1, 1856–1931
Stuart D. Levitan
Fall 2006

Door County’s Emerald Treasure
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Door County’s Emerald Treasure
A History of Peninsula State Park
William H. Tishler
Fall 2006

Women in Print
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Women in Print
Essays on the Print Culture of American Women from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Edited by James P. Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand
Spring 2006

Cosmopolitanism and Solidarity
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Cosmopolitanism and Solidarity
Studies in Ethnoracial, Religious, and Professional Affiliation in the United States
David A. Hollinger
Spring 2006

Buried Indians
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Buried Indians
Digging Up the Past in a Midwestern Town
Laurie Hovell McMillin
Spring 2006

A Thousand Pieces of Paradise
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A Thousand Pieces of Paradise
Landscape and Property in the Kickapoo Valley
Lynne Heasley
Fall 2005

A Mind of Her Own
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A Mind of Her Own
Helen Connor Laird and Family, 1888–1982
Helen L. Laird
Fall 2005

Cheese
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Cheese
The Making of a Wisconsin Tradition
Jerry Apps
Spring 2005

Byron Kilbourn and the Development of Milwaukee
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Byron Kilbourn and the Development of Milwaukee
Goodwin Berquist and Paul C. Bowers, Jr.
Spring 2005

Farm Crossing
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Farm Crossing
The Amazing Adventures of Addie and Zachary
Jack Bushnell, Illustrated by Laurie Caple
Spring 2005

Like a Deer Chased by the Dogs
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Like a Deer Chased by the Dogs
The Life of Chief Oshkosh
Scott Cross
Spring 2005

Harriet Tubman
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Harriet Tubman
The Life and the Life Stories
Jean M. Humez
Spring 2005

Paths of the People
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Paths of the People
The Ojibwe in the Chippewa Valley
Tim Pfaff
Spring 2005

Hmong in America
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Hmong in America
Journey from a Secret War
Tim Pfaff
Spring 2005

Useful Work for Unskilled Women
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Useful Work for Unskilled Women
A Unique Milwaukee WPA Project
Mary Kellogg Rice
Spring 2005

Wisconsin Where They Row
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Wisconsin Where They Row
A History of Varsity Rowing at the University of Wisconsin
Bradley F. Taylor
Spring 2005

Breweries of Wisconsin
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Breweries of Wisconsin
Jerry Apps
Fall 2004

The Blind African Slave
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The Blind African Slave
Or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace
Jeffrey Brace, as told to Benjamin F. Prentiss, Esq., Edited and with an introduction by Kari J. Winter
Fall 2004

The Rise and Fall of HMOs
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The Rise and Fall of HMOs
An American Health Care Revolution
Jan Gregoire Coombs
Fall 2004

Lords of the Ring
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Lords of the Ring
The Triumph and Tragedy of College Boxing’s Greatest Team
Doug Moe
Fall 2004

Memories of Lac du Flambeau Elders
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Memories of Lac du Flambeau Elders
Edited by Elizabeth M. Tornes, With an introduction by Leon Valliere, Jr.
Fall 2004

Walking Shadows
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Walking Shadows
Orson Welles, William Randolph Hearst, and Citizen Kane
John Evangelist Walsh
Fall 2004

An Emotional Gauntlet
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An Emotional Gauntlet
From Life in Peacetime America to the War in European Skies
Stuart J. Wright
Fall 2004

Madison
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Madison
A History of the Formative Years
David V. Mollenhoff
Spring 2004

Robert Ball and the Politics of Social Security
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Robert Ball and the Politics of Social Security
Edward D. Berkowitz
Fall 2003

German-Jewish Identities in America
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German-Jewish Identities in America
Edited by Christof Mauch and Joseph Salmons
Fall 2003

Voices from the Federal Theatre
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Voices from the Federal Theatre
Bonnie Nelson Schwartz and the Educational Film Center, Foreword by Robert Brustein
Fall 2003

The Woman in Battle
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The Woman in Battle
The Civil War Narrative of Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Cuban Woman and Confederate Soldier
Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Introduction by Jesse Alemán
Fall 2003

New Directions in Irish-American History
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New Directions in Irish-American History
Edited by Kevin Kenny
Spring 2003

Mission Underway
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Mission Underway
The History of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association and the Popular Culture Movement 1967–2001
Edited, Revised, and Updated by Ray B. Browne
2002

Sundae Best
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Sundae Best
A History of Soda Fountains
Anne Cooper Funderburg
2002

Theo
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Theo
An Autobiography
Theodore Bikel
Fall 2002

Land without Nightingales
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Land without Nightingales
Music in the Making of German-America
Edited by Philip V. Bohlman and Otto Holzapfel
Fall 2002

Young Bob
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Young Bob
A Biography of Robert M. La Follette, Jr.
Patrick J. Maney
Fall 2002

A City at War
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A City at War
Milwaukee Labor during World War II
Richard L. Pifer
Fall 2002

A Summer Up North
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A Summer Up North
Henry Aaron and the Legend of Eau Claire Baseball
Jerry Poling
Fall 2002

Purity in Print
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Purity in Print
Book Censorship in America from the Gilded Age to the Computer Age
Paul S. Boyer
Spring 2002

Landscape, Nature, and the Body Politic
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Landscape, Nature, and the Body Politic
From Britain’s Renaissance to America’s New World
Kenneth Robert Olwig
Spring 2002

Strong-Minded Woman
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Strong-Minded Woman
The Story of Lavinia Goodell, Wisconsin’s First Female Lawyer
Mary Lahr Schier
Spring 2002

Wisconsin Then and Now
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Wisconsin Then and Now
The Wisconsin Sesquicentennial Rephotography Project
Nicolette Bromberg, With introductory essays by Steven Hoelscher and Thomas R. Vale
Fall 2001

Regional Fictions
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Regional Fictions
Culture and Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Stephanie Foote
Fall 2001

Early American Cinema in Transition
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Early American Cinema in Transition
Story, Style, and Filmmaking, 1907–1913
Charlie Keil
Fall 2001

Wisconsin Indians
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Wisconsin Indians
Nancy Oestreich Lurie
Fall 2001

Keepers of the Wolves
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Keepers of the Wolves
The Early Years of Wolf Recovery in Wisconsin
Richard P. Thiel
Fall 2001

Diaries of Girls and Women
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Diaries of Girls and Women
A Midwestern American Sampler
Edited by Suzanne L. Bunkers
Spring 2001

The Experimental College
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The Experimental College
Alexander Meiklejohn
Spring 2001

The Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb
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The Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb
An American Slave
Henry Bibb, With a new introduction by Charles J. Heglar
Fall 2000

Fishing the Great Lakes
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Fishing the Great Lakes
An Environmental History, 1783–1933
Margaret Beattie Bogue
Fall 2000

La Pointe
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La Pointe
Village Outpost on Madeline Island
Hamilton Nelson Ross, With a foreword by Thomas Vennum, Jr.
Fall 2000

The German-Speaking 48ers
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The German-Speaking 48ers
Builders of Watertown, Wisconsin
Charles J. Wallman
Spring 2000

The Essential Aldo Leopold
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The Essential Aldo Leopold
Quotations and Commentaries
Edited by Curt Meine and Richard L. Knight
Fall 1999

Confronting History
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Confronting History
A Memoir
George L. Mosse
Fall 1999

Recovering the Prairie
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Recovering the Prairie
Edited by Robert F. Sayre
Fall 1999

Chiaroscuro
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Chiaroscuro
Essays of Identity
Helen Barolini
Spring 1999

The University of Wisconsin: A History, Volume IV
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The University of Wisconsin: A History, Volume IV
Renewal to Revolution, 1945–1971
E. David Cronon and John W. Jenkins
Spring 1999

The Oneida Indian Journey
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The Oneida Indian Journey
From New York to Wisconsin, 1784–1860
Edited by Laurence M. Hauptman and L. Gordon McLester III, With a Foreword by William T. Hagan and a Preface by Gerald Hill
Spring 1999

When Government Was Good
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When Government Was Good
Memories of a Life in Politics
Henry S. Reuss, With a Foreword by John Kenneth Galbraith
Spring 1999

The Crusade for Justice
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The Crusade for Justice
Chicano Militancy and the Government’s War on Dissent
Ernesto B. Vigil
Spring 1999

Proud Traditions and Future Challenges
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Proud Traditions and Future Challenges
The University of Wisconsin–Madison Celebrates 150 Years
Edited by David Ward and Noel Radomski
Spring 1999

Silent Witnesses
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Silent Witnesses
Representations of Working-Class Women in the United States
Jacqueline Ellis
1998

The Making of a Chicano Militant
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The Making of a Chicano Militant
Lessons from Cristal
José Angel Gutiérrez
Fall 1998

Who Owns America?
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Who Owns America?
Social Conflict over Property Rights
Edited by Harvey M. Jacobs
Fall 1998

Women and Health in America
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Women and Health in America
Historical Readings
Edited by Judith Walzer Leavitt
Fall 1998

Studying Native America
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Studying Native America
Problems and Prospects
Edited by Russell Thornton
Fall 1998

Wisconsin’s Past and Present
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Wisconsin’s Past and Present
A Historical Atlas
Wisconsin Cartographers’ Guild, With an Introduction by William Cronon
Fall 1998

The Life and Works of Charles Sealsfield (Karl Postl) 1793–1864
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The Life and Works of Charles Sealsfield (Karl Postl) 1793–1864
Edited by Charlotte L. Brancaforte
Spring 1998

The Wisconsin River
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The Wisconsin River
An Odyssey through Time and Space
Richard D. Durbin
Spring 1998

The German-American Press
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The German-American Press
Edited by Henry Geitz
Spring 1998

My Generation
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My Generation
Collective Autobiography and Identity Politics
John Downton Hazlett
Spring 1998

The Flags of the Iron Brigade
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The Flags of the Iron Brigade
Howard Michael Madaus and Richard H. Zeitlin
Spring 1998

The Cristal Experiment
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The Cristal Experiment
A Chicano Struggle for Community Control
Armando Navarro
Spring 1998

The German Language in America, 1683–1991
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The German Language in America, 1683–1991
Edited by Joseph C. Salmons
Spring 1998

The Golden Signpost
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The Golden Signpost
A Guide to Happiness and Prosperity
Translated by Colin D. Thomson, Edited by Charlotte Lang Brancaforte
Spring 1998

Life in the Shadows of the Crystal Palace 1910–1927
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Life in the Shadows of the Crystal Palace 1910–1927
Ford Workers in the Model T Era
Clarence Hooker
1997

Children of the Roojme
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Children of the Roojme
A Family’s Journey from Lebanon
Elmaz Abinader
Fall 1997

Recovering Bodies
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Recovering Bodies
Illness, Disability, and Life Writing
G. Thomas Couser, Foreword by Nancy Mairs
Fall 1997

American Superrealism
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American Superrealism
Nathanael West and the Politics of Representation in the 1930s
Jonathan Veitch
Fall 1997

Sickness and Health in America
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Sickness and Health in America
Readings in the History of Medicine and Public Health
Edited by Judith Walzer Leavitt and Ronald L. Numbers
Spring 1997

Splintered Sisterhood
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Splintered Sisterhood
Gender and Class in the Campaign against Woman Suffrage
Susan E. Marshall
Spring 1997

Wisconsin Land and Life
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Wisconsin Land and Life
A Portrait of the State
Edited by Robert C. Ostergren and Thomas R. Vale
Spring 1997

Befriending
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Befriending
The American Samaritans
Monica Dickens
1996

Buckeye Schoolmaster
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Buckeye Schoolmaster
A Chronicle of Midwestern Rural Life, 1853–1865
Edited by J. Merton England
1996

The Healthiest City
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The Healthiest City
Milwaukee and the Politics of Health Reform: Wisconsin Edition
Judith Walzer Leavitt
Fall 1996

Postwar Politics in the G-7
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Postwar Politics in the G-7
Orders and Eras in Comparative Perspective
Edited by Byron E. Shafer
Fall 1996

Cultural Map of Wisconsin
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Cultural Map of Wisconsin
A Cartographic Portrait of the State
David Woodward, Robert C. Ostergren, Onno Brouwer, Steven Hoelscher, Joshua Hane
Fall 1996

The Print in the Western World
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The Print in the Western World
An Introductory History
Linda C. Hults
Spring 1996

The History of Alta California
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The History of Alta California
A Memoir of Mexican California
Antonio María Osio, Translated, Edited, and Annotated by Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz
Spring 1996

The Grandmothers
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The Grandmothers
A Family Portrait
Glenway Wescott, with a New Introduction by Sargent Bush Jr.
Spring 1996

Chocolate, Strawberry, and Vanilla
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Chocolate, Strawberry, and Vanilla
A History of American Ice Cream
Anne Cooper Funderburg
1995

The Kid on the Sandlot
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The Kid on the Sandlot
Congress and Professional Sports, 1910–1992
Stephen R. Lowe
1995

Native American Communities in Wisconsin, 1600–1960
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Native American Communities in Wisconsin, 1600–1960
A Study of Tradition and Change
Robert E. Bieder
Spring 1995

Constitutional History of the American Revolution
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Constitutional History of the American Revolution
John Phillip Reid
Spring 1995

The University of Wisconsin: A History, Volume III
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The University of Wisconsin: A History, Volume III
Politics, Depression, and War, 1925–1945
E. David Cronon and John W. Jenkins
Fall 1994

Native American Autobiography
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Native American Autobiography
An Anthology
Edited by Arnold Krupat
Fall 1994

Witnessing Slavery
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Witnessing Slavery
The Development of Ante-bellum Slave Narratives
Frances Smith Foster
Spring 1994

Contemporary Cases in Women’s Rights
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Contemporary Cases in Women’s Rights
Leslie Friedman Goldstein
Spring 1994

The Reagan Range
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The Reagan Range
The Nostalgic Myth in American Politics
James Combs
1993

“It Was Play or Starve”
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“It Was Play or Starve”
Acting in the Nineteenth-Century American Popular Theatre
John Hanners
1993

Skinheads Shaved For Battle
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Skinheads Shaved For Battle
A Cultural History of American Skinheads
Jack Moore
1993

Baseball in 1889
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Baseball in 1889
Players vs. Owners
Daniel M. Pearson
1993

On Wisconsin Women
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On Wisconsin Women
Working for Their Rights from Settlement to Suffrage
Genevieve G. McBride
Fall 1993

Behind the Throne
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Behind the Throne
Servants of Power to Imperial Presidents, 1898–1968
Edited by Thomas J. McCormick and Walter LaFeber
Fall 1993

My History, Not Yours
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My History, Not Yours
The Formation of Mexican American Autobiography
Genaro M. Padilla
Fall 1993

Constitutional History of the American Revolution, Volume IV
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Constitutional History of the American Revolution, Volume IV
The Authority of Law
John Phillip Reid
Fall 1993

After Freedom
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After Freedom
A Cultural Study in the Deep South
Hortense Powdermaker, With a new Introduction by Brackette P. Williams and Drexel Woodson
Spring 1993

The Gateway Arch
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The Gateway Arch
Fact and Symbol
W. Arthur Mehrhoff
1992

Live from Atlantic City
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Live from Atlantic City
The Miss America Pageant Before, After, and In Spite of Television
A. R. Riverol
1992

Livin’ the Blues
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Livin’ the Blues
Memoirs of a Black Journalist and Poet
Frank Marshall Davis, Edited with an Introduction by John Edgar Tidwell
Fall 1992

Race in America
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Race in America
The Struggle for Equality
Edited by Herbert Hill and James E. Jones Jr.
Fall 1992

The Politics of Pensions
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The Politics of Pensions
A Comparative Analysis of Britain, Canada, and the United States, 1880–1940
Ann Shola Orloff
Fall 1992

Between Memory and Reality
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Between Memory and Reality
Family and Community in Rural Wisconsin, 1870–1970
Jane Marie Pederson
Fall 1992

The Native Population of the Americas in 1492
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The Native Population of the Americas in 1492
Edited by William M. Denevan, With a Foreword by W. George Lovell
Spring 1992

A Woman’s Civil War
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A Woman’s Civil War
A Diary with Reminiscences of the War, from March 1862
Cornelia Peake McDonald, Edited with an Introduction by Minrose C. Gwin
Spring 1992

Constitutional History of the American Revolution, Volume III
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Constitutional History of the American Revolution, Volume III
The Authority to Legislate
John Phillip Reid
Fall 1991

Indian Names on Wisconsin’s Map
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Indian Names on Wisconsin’s Map
Virgil J. Vogel
Fall 1991

American Autobiography
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American Autobiography
Retrospect and Prospect
Edited by Paul John Eakin
Spring 1991

Watch on the Right
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Watch on the Right
Conservative Intellectuals in the Reagan Era
J. David Hoeveler Jr.
Spring 1991

The River of the Mother of God
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The River of the Mother of God
and Other Essays by Aldo Leopold
Aldo Leopold, Edited by Susan L. Flader and J. Baird Callicott
Spring 1991

American Fiction in the Cold War
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American Fiction in the Cold War
Thomas Hill Schaub
Spring 1991

The Diary of Caroline Seabury, 1854–1863
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The Diary of Caroline Seabury, 1854–1863
Caroline Seabury, Edited with an Introduction by Suzanne L. Bunkers
Spring 1991

Dancing Fools and Weary Blues
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Dancing Fools and Weary Blues
The Great Escape of the Twenties
Edited by Lawrence R. Broer and John D. Walther
1990

Front-Page Detective
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Front-Page Detective
William J. Burns and the Detective Profession, 1880–1930
William R. Hunt
1990

Cane Ridge
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Cane Ridge
America’s Pentecost
Paul K. Conkin
Fall 1990

Journeys in New Worlds
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Journeys in New Worlds
Early American Women’s Narratives
Edited by William L. Andrews, Sargent Bush, Jr., Annette Kolodny, Amy Schrager Lang, and Daniel B. Shea
Fall 1990

God’s Empire
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God’s Empire
William Bell Riley and Midwestern Fundamentalism
William Vance Trollinger Jr.
Fall 1990

Universities and the Capitalist State
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Universities and the Capitalist State
Corporate Liberalism and the Reconstruction of American Higher Education, 1894–1928
Clyde W. Barrow
Spring 1990

Unemployment Insurance
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Unemployment Insurance
The Second Half-Century
Edited by W. Lee Hansen and James F. Byers
Fall 1989

And Sadly Teach
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And Sadly Teach
Teacher Education and Professionalization in American Culture
Jurgen Herbst
Fall 1989

Wisconsin
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Wisconsin
A History
Robert C. Nesbit, Revised and updated by William F. Thompson
Fall 1989

Mixed Blood
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Mixed Blood
Intermarriage and Ethnic Identity in Twentieth-Century America
Paul R. Spickard
Fall 1989

Speculators and Slaves
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Speculators and Slaves
Masters, Traders, and Slaves in the Old South
Michael Tadman
Fall 1989

The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections, 1788-1790, Volume IV
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The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections, 1788-1790, Volume IV
Edited by Gordon DenBoer, Lucy Trumbull Brown, Alfred Lindsay Skerpan, and Charles D. Hagerman
Spring 1989

Caste and Class in a Southern Town
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Caste and Class in a Southern Town
John Dollard , With a Foreword by Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Spring 1989

Making the American Home
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Making the American Home
Middle-Class Women and Domestic Material Culture, 1840–1940
Edited by Marilyn F. Motz and Pat Browne
1988

Pastoral Cities
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Pastoral Cities
Urban Ideals and the Symbolic Landscape of America
James L. Machor
Fall 1987

Constitutional History of the American Revolution, Volume II
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Constitutional History of the American Revolution, Volume II
The Authority to Tax
John Phillip Reid
Fall 1987

Laws of Our Fathers
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Laws of Our Fathers
Popular Culture and the U.S. Constitution
Edited by Ray B. Browne and Glenn J. Browne
1986

The Rise of the New York Intellectuals
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The Rise of the New York Intellectuals
Partisan Review and Its Circle, 1934–1945
Terry A. Cooney
Fall 1986

Neither Black Nor White
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Neither Black Nor White
Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States
Carl Degler
Fall 1986

The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections, 1788-1790, Volume III
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The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections, 1788-1790, Volume III
Edited by Gordon DenBoer, Lucy Trumbull Brown, and Charles D. Hagerman
Fall 1986

Constitutional History of the American Revolution, Volume I
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Constitutional History of the American Revolution, Volume I
The Authority of Rights
John Phillip Reid
Fall 1986

Robert M. La Follette and the Insurgent Spirit
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Robert M. La Follette and the Insurgent Spirit
David P. Thelen, Edited by Oscar Handlin
Spring 1986

Sixty Years of Journalism
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Sixty Years of Journalism
by James M. Cain
Edited and with Introductions by Roy Hoopes
1985

Days of Sadness, Years of Triumph
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Days of Sadness, Years of Triumph
The American People, 1939–1945
Geoffrey Perrett
Fall 1985

Hounds of the Road
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Hounds of the Road
A History of the Greyhound Bus Company
Carlton Jackson
1984

The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections, 1788–1790, Volume II
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The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections, 1788–1790, Volume II
Edited by Gordon DenBoer, Lucy Trumbull Brown, and Charles D. Hagerman
Spring 1984

Slavery and Race in American Popular Culture
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Slavery and Race in American Popular Culture
William L. Van Deburg
Spring 1984

Building Character in the American Boy
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Building Character in the American Boy
The Boy Scouts, YMCA, and Their Forerunners, 1870–1920
David I. Macleod
Fall 1983

A Pillar of Fire to Follow
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A Pillar of Fire to Follow
American Indian Dramas, 1808–1859
Priscilla Sears
1982

Custer Legends
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Custer Legends
Lawrence A. Frost
1981

The Fallen Angel
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The Fallen Angel
Chastity, Class and Women's Reading, 1835–1880
Sally Mitchell
1981

Joe McCarthy and the Press
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Joe McCarthy and the Press
Edwin R. Bayley
Fall 1981

America
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America
Exploration and Travel
Steven E. Kagel, Editor
1979

The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections, 1788–1790, Volume I
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The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections, 1788–1790, Volume I
Edited by Merrill Jensen and Robert A. Becker
1976

The American Dream and the National Game
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The American Dream and the National Game
Leverett T. Smith Jr.
1975

Lincoln-Lore
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Lincoln-Lore
Lincoln in the Popular Mind
Edited by Ray B. Browne
1974

The Atlantic Slave Trade
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The Atlantic Slave Trade
A Census
Philip D. Curtin
Fall 1969

A Wisconsin Boy in Dixie
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A Wisconsin Boy in Dixie
Civil War Letters of James K. Newton
Selected and Edited by Stephen E. Ambrose
Fall 1961

La Follette’s Autobiography
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La Follette’s Autobiography
A Personal Narrative of Political Experiences
Robert M. La Follette
1960

Black Moses
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Black Moses
The Story of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association
E. David Cronon, With a Foreword by John Hope Franklin
1955

The Conquest of Epidemic Disease
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The Conquest of Epidemic Disease
A Chapter in the History of Ideas
Charles-Edward Amory Winslow
1943

Lincoln and the Radicals
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Lincoln and the Radicals
T. Harry Williams
1941

The Wars of the Iroquois
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The Wars of the Iroquois
A Study in Intertribal Trade Relations
George T. Hunt
1940

The Articles of Confederation
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The Articles of Confederation
An Interpretation of the Social-Constitutional History of the American Revolution, 1774–1781
Merrill Jensen
1940