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New Acquisitions

March 2008

Recent WHS Library Acquisitions

General Collection

BL2525 R4698 2007
Religious history of American women : reimagining the past.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007.

BX4220 U6 K64 2007
Koehlinger, Amy L.
New nuns : racial justice and religious reform in the 1960s.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c2007.

BX8566 F64 2007
Fogleman, Aaron Spencer.
Jesus is female : Moravians and the challenge of radical religion in early America.
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2007.

E98 S7 M24 2008
Markstrom, Carol A.
Empowerment of North American Indian girls : ritual expressions at puberty.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.

E99 K5 R36 2008
Rand, Jacki Thompson.
Kiowa humanity and the invasion of the state.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.

E169.12 M65 2008
Moore, Dinty W., 1955-
Between panic and desire.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.

E183.7 H595 2008
Hixson, Walter L.
Myth of American diplomacy : national identity and U.S. foreign policy.
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.

E184 S75 O84 2007
Other Latinos : Central and South Americans in the United States.
Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, 2007.

E184.35 C65 2008
Columbia history of Jews and Judaism in America.
New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.

E184.37 L46 H37 2007
Harper, Steven J., 1954-
Straddling worlds : the Jewish-American journey of Professor Richard W. Leopold.
Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2007.

E185.6 D69 2008
Dossett, Kate.
Bridging race divides : Black nationalism, feminism, and integration in the United States, 1896-1935.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2008.

E457.2 F786 2008
Fredrickson, George M., 1934-
Big enough to be inconsistent : Abraham Lincoln confronts slavery and race.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.

E457.35 M689 2008
Morris, Roy.
Long pursuit : Abraham Lincoln's thirty-year struggle with Stephen Douglas for the heart and soul of America.
New York : [Washington, D.C.] : Collins ; Smithsonian Books, c2008.

E470.4 D53 2008
Dick, F. A. (Franklin Archibald)
Troubled state : Civil War journals of Franklin Archibald Dick.
[Kirksville, MO] : Truman State University Press, c2008.

E902 R625 2008
Roberts, Alasdair (Alasdair Scott)
Collapse of fortress Bush : the crisis of authority in American government.
New York : New York University Press, c2008.

F234 J3 K46 2006
Kelso, William M.
Jamestown, the buried truth.
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2006.

F379 C59 K45 2008
Keith, LeeAnna.
Colfax massacre : the untold story of Black power, White terror, and the death of Reconstruction.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

F534 W53 H37 2007
Harvey, Nigel (Charles Nigel)
Amid the alien corn : an intrepid Englishman in the heart of America.
West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, 2007.

F869 B5 W65 2008
Wollenberg, Charles.
Berkeley : a city in history.
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.

GV706.42 B35 2007
Baker, William J. (William Joseph), 1938-
Playing with God : religion and modern sport.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.

HD8085 D88 H83 2006
Hudelson, Richard.
By the ore docks : a working people's history of Duluth.
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2006.

HT167.5 V8 H46 2006
Hendricks, Christopher E., 1963-
Backcountry towns of colonial Virginia.
Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2006.

HV6465 T4 B67 2006
Borders, Gary B.
Hanging in Nacogdoches : murder, race, politics, and polemics in Texas's oldest town, 1870-1916.
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006.

NX663 U6 G58 2007
Givens, Terryl.
People of paradox : a history of Mormon culture.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Select Magazines/Newspapers

Inspire.
Los Angeles, CA : Japanese American National Museum
Subject: Japanese Americans—History.

Fitchburg, Wisconsin, ... business & community guide.
Fitchburg, WI : Fitchburg Chamber
Subject: Fitchburg (Wis.)--Directories.

Wisconsin Government Publications

WI Gov. Pub. AUD 2.3/2:2008/3
17-Year-Old Offenders in the Adult Criminal Justice System, Department of Corrections : A Review / Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau.
Available on the Internet: link

WI Gov. Pub. CRI 2.1/2:B 98/2006
Byrne-JAG Grant Program Annual Report / State of Wisconsin Office of Justice Assistance.

WI Gov. Pub. ED.6/2:H 8/2006
Human Growth & Development : A Resource Packet to Assist School Districts in Program Development, Implementation and Assessment / Wisconsin Dept. of Public Instruction.
Available on the Internet: link

WI Gov. Pub. FIN.1/2:C 65/1995-2007
Comprehensive Annual Financial Report / Wisconsin Dept. of Administration.
Available on the Internet: link

WI Gov. Pub. PL SE.3:P 55/53
A Regional Broadband Telecommunications Plan for Southeastern Wisconsin / Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission.
Available on the Internet: pdf

WI Gov. Pub. LEG.3:IM/2008/2
Regional Initiatives to Address Global Climate Change / Wisconsin Legislative Council.
Available on the Internet: pdf

United States Government Publications

D 114.2:N 73/ 2007
The Story of the Noncommissioned Officer Corps, the Backbone of the Army / Center for Military History, 2007.

I 29.86/4: AC 1/2
Cultural Landscape Report for the Historic Motor Road System : Acadia National Parks / National Park Service, 2007.

D 214.14/3:IR 1
With the 1st Marine Division in Iraq, 2003 : No Greater Friend, No Worse Enemy / History Division, Marine Corps University, 2006.

D 114.2:T 68/2
Transforming an Army at War : Designing the Modular Force, 1991-2005 / Center for Military History, 2007.

SI 1.33:47
A Chronology of Middle Missouri Plains Village Sites : Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, no. 47 / Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2007.

I 29.2:C 42/6
Farming Along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, 1828-1971: a Study of Agricultural Sites in the C&O Canal National Historical Park / U.S. Department of Interior, National Park Service, 2007.

Canadian Government Publications

New Collections in the Archives of the WHS

Local Government Records

Manuscript Collections

| Posted on March 31, 2008


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