August 2004
Recent WHS Library Acquisitions
General Collection
BL2527 N7 D855 2004
Dunlap, David W.
From Abyssinian to Zion : a guide to Manhattan's houses of worship.
New York : Columbia University Press, c2004.
BL2527 N95 R45 2004
Religion and public life in the Pacific Northwest : the none zone.
Walnut Creek, CA : AltaMira Press, c2004.
BL2527 O3 R45 2004
Religion in Ohio : profiles of faith communities.
Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, c2004.
BT30 U6 H65 2003
Holifield, E. Brooks.
Theology in America : Christian thought from the age of the Puritans to the Civil War.
New Haven [Conn] : Yale University Press, c2003.
BX4220 U6 R44 2004
Reed, Cheryl L.
Unveiled : the hidden lives of nuns.
New York : Berkley Books, 2004.
BX5881 B45 2004
Bell, James B., 1932-
Imperial origins of the King's church in early America, 1607-1783.
Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
BX5995 W342 A3 2004
Wallis, Joy Carroll.
The woman behind the collar : the pioneering journey of an Episcopal priest.
New York : Crossroad Pub., 2004.
BX8693 R87 2004
Rust, Val Dean.
Radical origins : early Mormon converts and their colonial ancestors.
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2004.
D811 R89 A3 2004
Rutter, Joseph W.
Wreaking havoc : a year in an A-20.
College Station : Texas A&M University, c2004.
DS558 B45 2004
Beidler, Philip D.
Late thoughts on an old war : the legacy of Vietnam.
Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2004.
DS558.92 P547 2004
Plaster, John L.
Secret commandos : behind enemy lines with the elite warriors of SOG.
New York : Simon & Schuster, c2004.
E78 C15 P687 2004
Prehistoric California : archaeology and the myth of paradise.
Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, c2004.
E78 C15 S36 2004
Sandos, James A.
Converting California : Indians and Franciscans in the missions.
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2004.
E78 N54 C33 2003
Caduto, Michael J.
A time before New Hampshire : the story of a land and Native peoples.
Hanover : University of New Hampshire ; University Press of New England, c2003.
E78 S65 S523 2004
Signs of power : the rise of cultural complexity in the Southeast.
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2004.
E83.79 G34 2004
Gaff, Alan D.
Bayonets in the wilderness : Anthony Wayne's legion in the Old Northwest.
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2004.
E90 W8 A3 2003
Wooden Leg, 1858-1940.
Wooden Leg : a warrior who fought Custer.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2003.
E97 R49 2004
Reyhner, Jon Allan.
American Indian education : a history.
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2004.
E99 C832 N49 2004
New perspectives on the first Americans.
College Station, TX : Center for the Study of the First Americans : Distributed by Texas A&M University Press, c2004.
E99 N5 M22 2004
McCoy, Robert R. (Robert Ross), 1962-
Chief Joseph, Yellow Wolf, and the creation of Nez Perce history in the Pacific Northwest.
New York : Routledge, 2004.
E99 P3 B68 2004
Boughter, Judith A., 1940-
Pawnee nation : an annotated research bibliography.
Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2004.
E99 S63 W66 2004
Woodworth-Ney, Laura.
Mapping identity : the creation of the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation, 1805-1902.
Boulder : University Press of Colorado, c2004.
E99 Y9 S7 2004
Speck, Frank Gouldsmith, 1881-1950.
Ethnology of the Yuchi Indians.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2004.
E169.04 S564 2004
Sides, Hampton.
Americana : dispatches from the new frontier.
New York : Anchor Books, c2004.
E176.1 B683 2004
Boller, Paul F.
Presidential campaigns : from George Washington to George W. Bush.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
E176.1 T69 2004
Towle, Michael J., 1962-
Out of touch : the presidency and public opinion.
College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2004.
E176.25 G85 2004
Gullan, Harold I., 1931-
First fathers : the men who inspired our Presidents.
Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2004.
E183.8 P5 D45 2004
Delmendo, Sharon, 1964-
The star-entangled banner : one hundred years of America in the Philippines.
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2004.
E183.8 S6 N6195 2004
Nesbitt, Francis Njubi, 1963-
Race for sanctions : African Americans against apartheid, 1946-1994.
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2004.
E183.8 V5 I575 2004
Inside the Pentagon papers.
Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2004.
E184.A1 K33 2003
Kazanjian, David, 1967-
The colonizing trick : national culture and imperial citizenship in early America.
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2003.
E184 M44 W56 2004
Winkler, Wayne, 1956-
Walking toward the sunset : the Melungeons of Appalachia.
Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, c2004.
E184 M5 W42 2003
Foreigners in their native land : historical roots of the Mexican Americans.
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c2003.
E184 S23 L345 2004
Lago, Don, 1956-
On the Viking trail : travels in Scandinavian America.
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2004.
E184.65 E76 2004
Ernest, John.
Liberation historiography : African American writers and the challenge of history, 1794-1861.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.
E185.61 C267 2004
Carrier, Jim, 1944-
A traveler's guide to the civil rights movement.
Orlando : Harcourt, c2004.
E185.61 D54 2004
Dierenfield, Bruce J., 1951-
The civil rights movement.
Harlow, England ; New York : Pearson Longman, 2004.
E185.61 M985 2004
Murray, Peter C., 1953-
Methodists and the crucible of race, 1930-1975.
Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2004.
E185.61 S6144 2004
Singh, Nikhil Pal.
Black is a country : race and the unfinished struggle for democracy.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.
E185.61 S646 2004
Smith, Lillian Eugenia, 1897-1966.
Now is the time.
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2004.
E185.615 H47 2004
Hill, Lance E. (Lance Edward), 1950-
The Deacons for Defense : armed resistance and the civil rights movement.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.
E185.96 B5645 2004
Blake, John.
Children of the movement : the sons and daughters of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad, George Wallace, Andrew Young, Julian Bond, Stokely Carmichael, Bob Moses, James Chaney, Elaine Brown, and others reveal how the civil rights movement tested and transformed their families.
Chicago : Lawrence Hill Books, c2004.
E185.98 A1 T49 2004
Throwing off the cloak of privilege : white Southern women activists in the Civil Rights Era.
Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, c2004.
E188 B44 2004
Beeman, Richard R.
The varieties of political experience in eighteenth-century America.
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2004.
E199 C38 2004
Cave, Alfred A.
The French and Indian war.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004.
E302.5 Q68 2004
The quotable founding fathers : a treasury of 2,500 wise and witty quotations from the men and women who created America.
Washington, D.C. : Brassey's, c2004.
E441 J49 2004
Jewett, Clayton E.
Slavery in the South : a state-by-state history.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004.
E467.1 P86 S44 2004
Sehlinger, Peter J.
Kentucky's last cavalier : General William Preston, 1816-1887.
[Frankfort, Ky.] : Kentucky Historical Society ; Lexington : Distributed by The University Press of Kentucky, 2004.
E469.8 A55 2003
The American Civil War through British eyes : dispatches from British diplomats.
Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, [2003?]-
E470 B33 2004
Battles and leaders of the Civil War.
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2004.
E475.81 L56 2004
Linton, Roger C., 1943-
Chickamauga : a battlefield history in images.
Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2004.
E551 S76 2004
Storey, Margaret M., 1969-
Loyalty and loss : Alabama's Unionists in the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2004.
E573.6 2nd H37 2004
Harrell, Roger H. (Roger Herman), 1936-
The 2nd North Carolina Cavalry.
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., Publishers, c2004.
E591 B46 2004
Bennett, Michael J.
Union Jacks : Yankee sailors in the Civil War.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.
E595 M7 N45 2004
Nelson, James L.
Reign of iron : the story of the first battling ironclads, the Monitor and the Merrimack.
New York : William Morrow, c2004.
E672 B67 2004
Bonekemper, Edward H.
A victor, not a butcher : Ulysses S. Grant's overlooked military genius.
Washington, DC : Regnery Pub. ; Lanham, MD : Distributed by National Book Network, c2004.
E748 G898 N37 2004
Naske, Claus-M.
Ernest Gruening : Alaska's greatest governor.
Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, c2004.
E840 C646 2004
Cold War triumphalism : the misuse of history after the fall of communism.
New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co., c2004.
E840 H592 2004
Holsti, Ole R.
Public opinion and American foreign policy.
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2004.
E840 M346 2004
Mamdani, Mahmood, 1946-
Good Muslim, bad Muslim : America, the Cold War, and the roots of terror.
New York : Pantheon Books, 2004.
E882 W53 2004
Wicker, Tom.
George Herbert Walker Bush.
New York : Lipper/Viking, 2004.
E902 C86 2004
Cumings, Bruce, 1943-
Inventing the axis of evil : the truth about North Korea, Iran, and Syria.
New York : New Press, c2004.
F44 P8 S25 2004
Sammons, Mark.
Black Portsmouth : three centuries of African-American heritage.
Durham : University of New Hampshire Press ; Hanover : University Press of New England, c2004.
F72 H3 S47 2004
Sharpe, Elizabeth M.
In the shadow of the dam : the aftermath of the Mill River flood of 1874.
New York : Free Press, c2004.
F72 M7 T5 2004
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers.
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2004, c1980.
F104 C63 L44 2004
Leff, David K.
The last undiscovered place.
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2004.
F127 A2 C25 2004
Calarco, Tom, 1947-
The Underground Railroad in the Adirondack region.
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2004.
F127 L8 W42 2004
Weigold, Marilyn E.
The Long Island Sound : a history of its people, places, and environment.
New York : New York University Press, c2004.
F128.47 Q54 2004
Quigley, David, 1966-
Second founding : New York City, Reconstruction and the Making of American Democracy.
New York : Hill and Wang, c2004.
F128.56 K65 2004
Kolbert, Elizabeth.
Prophet of love : and other tales of power and deceit.
New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2004.
F129 F7 S73 2004
Starbuck, David R.
Rangers and Redcoats on the Hudson : exploring the past on Rogers Island, the birthplace of the U.S. Army Rangers.
Hanover, N.H. : University Press of New England, c2004.
F130 P3 O88 2004
Otterness, Philip.
Becoming German : the 1709 Palatine migration to New York.
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2004.
F159 P69 N495 2004
The WPA history of the Negro in Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2004.
F229 C32 I83 2004
Isaac, Rhys.
Landon Carter's uneasy kingdom : revolution and rebellion on a Virginia Plantation.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
F262 B9 W66 2004
Wood, Bradford J., 1970-
This remote part of the world : regional formation in Lower Cape Fear, North Carolina, 1725-1775.
Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, c2004.
F279 B3 R38 2004
Rauch, William.
Politicking : how to get elected, take action, and make an impact in your community.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.
F279 C453 A242 2004
Dawson, Sarah Morgan, 1842-1909.
The correspondence of Sarah Morgan and Francis Warrington Dawson, with selected editorials written by Sarah Morgan for the Charleston News and Courier.
Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2004.
F290 C67 M37 2004
McCash, William B., 1931-
Thomas R.R. Cobb (1823-1862) : the making of a southern nationalist.
Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, c2004.
F294 A89 N435 2004
Dorsey, Allison, 1959-
To build our lives together : community formation in Black Atlanta, 1875-1906.
Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2004.
F395 B67 P47 2004
Perilous voyages : Czech and English immigrants to Texas in the 1870s.
College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2004.
F415.3 R62 W378 2004
Ward, John L., 1930-
Winthrop Rockefeller, philanthropist : a life of change.
Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2004.
F466 L46 B66 2002
Boman, Dennis K.
Abiel Leonard, Yankee slaveholder, eminent jurist, and passionate Unionist.
Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen Press, c2002.
F548.3 A8 2004
As others see Chicago : impressions of visitors, 1673-1933.
Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2004.
F570.25 L63 F43 2003
Fedewa, Stanley C.
Man in motion : Michigan's legendary Senate majority leader, Emil Lockwood.
Coral Springs, FL : Llumina Press, c2003.
F592.7 M685 2004
Morris, Larry E., 1951-
The fate of the corps : what became of the Lewis and Clark explorers after the expedition.
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2004.
F786 K21 K38 2004
Kate, Herman F. C. ten (Herman Frederik Carel), 1858-1931.
Travels and researches in native North America, 1882-1883.
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2004.
F797 P545 2004
Pike, David, 1964-
Roadside New Mexico : a guide to historic markers.
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2004.
F832 C37 W43 2004
Webb, Robert H.
Cataract Canyon : a human and environmental history of the rivers in Canyonlands.
Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, c2004.
F866.2 D35 2004
Dallek, Matthew, 1969-
The right moment : Ronald Reagan's first victory and the decisive turning point in American politics.
New York : Oxford University Press, c2004.
F884 P89 C5 2004
Wong, Marie Rose, 1954-
Sweet cakes, long journey : the Chinatowns of Portland, Oregon.
Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2004.
F1059.5 C67 P37 2004
Parham, Claire Puccia.
From great wilderness to Seaway towns : a comparative history of Cornwall, Ontario, and Massena, New York, 1784-2001.
Albany : State University of New York Press, c2004.
GV706.5 J39 2004
Jay, Kathryn.
More than just a game : sports in American life since 1945.
New York : Columbia University Press, c2004.
GV863 N72 N483 2004
Frommer, Harvey.
New York City baseball : the last golden age, 1947-1957.
Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2004.
GV863 T42 S365 2004
King, David, 1958-
San Antonio at bat : professional baseball in the Alamo city.
College Station : Texas A & M University Press, c2004.
GV865 D45 C37 2004
Casway, Jerrold I.
Ed Delahanty in the emerald age of baseball.
Notre Dame, Ind : University of Notre Dame Press, c2004.
GV875 A3 L44 2002
Leiker, Ken.
Memorable moments : the most memorable moments in Major League Baseball history.
New York, NY : Ballantine Books, c2002.
GV875 B59 K34 2004
Kaese, Harold.
The Boston Braves, 1871-1953.
Boston : Northeastern University Press, 2004.
GV875 N35 L36 2004
Lanctot, Neil, 1966-
Negro league baseball : the rise and ruin of a Black institution.
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2004.
GV875 N4 C65 2004
Cohen, Robert W.
The lean years of the Yankees, 1965-1975.
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2004.
GV875 N45 P43 2004
Pearlman, Jeff.
The bad guys won : a season of brawling, boozing, bimbo chasing, and championship baseball with Straw, Doc, Mookie, Nails, the Kid, and the rest of the 1986 Mets, the rowdiest team ever to put on a New York uniform, and maybe the best.
New York : HarperCollins, c2004.
GV964 A1 S68 2004
Sounes, Howard, 1965-
The wicked game : Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, and the story of modern golf.
[New York] : Morrow, c2004.
HD1527 C2 S84 2004
Street, Richard Steven.
Beasts of the field : a narrative history of California farm workers, 1769-1913.
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2004.
HD6508 T745 2004
Troy, Leo.
The twilight of the old unionism.
Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2004.
HD8072 C69 2004
Cohen, Andrew Wender, 1968-
The racketeer's progress : Chicago and the struggle for the modern American economy, 1900-1940.
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
HF5429.4 N56 E48 2004
Elvins, Sarah.
Sales & celebrations : retailing and regional identity in Western New York State, 1920-1940.
Athens : Ohio University Press, c2004.
HF5549.5 A34 A53 2004
Anderson, Terry H., 1946-
The pursuit of fairness : a history of affirmative action.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
HF5843 G84 2004
Gudis, Catherine.
Buyways : billboards, automobiles, and the American landscape.
New York : Routledge, 2004.
HG4910 W428 2004
Wilkins, Mira.
The history of foreign investment in the United States, 1914-1945.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.
HN80 P75 F35 2004
Faiman-Silva, Sandra L.
The courage to connect : sexuality, citizenship, and community in Provincetown.
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2004.
HN90 R3 M85 2004
Mulloy, D. J.
American extremism : history, politics and the militia movement.
London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
HN90 R3 V37 2004
Varon, Jeremy, 1969-
Bringing the war home : the Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and revolutionary violence in the sixties and seventies.
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.
HT123.5 K2 S56 2004
Shortridge, James R., 1944-
Cities on the plains : the evolution of urban Kansas.
Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2004.
JK1967 B46 2004
Bensel, Richard Franklin, 1949-
American ballot box in the mid-nineteenth century.
New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
KF350 D63 1972
Documentary history of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1972-
KF4749 R83 2004
Rudanko, Martti Juhani.
James Madison and freedom of speech : major debates in the early republic.
Dallas : University Press of America, c2004.
PN4874 C634 A3 2004
Cohen, Janet Langhart.
From rage to reason : my life in two Americas.
New York, N.Y. : Dafina Books, c2004.
RS78 B33 2004
Bacon, John U., 1964-
America's corner store : Walgreens' prescription for success.
Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2004.
S451 M4 D66 2004
Donahue, Brian, 1955-
The Great Meadow : farmers and the land in colonial Concord.
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2004.
SD129 T47 A3 2004
Thomas, Jack Ward.
Jack Ward Thomas : the journals of a Forest Service chief.
Durham, N.C. : Forest History Society ; Seattle : In Association with University of Washington Press, c2004.
TH4819 P7 K59 2004
Knerr, Douglas, 1960-
Suburban steel : the magnificent failure of the Lustron Corporation, 1945-1951.
Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2004.
TN22 M56 2003
The mining west : a bibliography & guide to the history & literature of mining in the American and Canadian west.
Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 203.
TN423 C2 M24 2004
Mace, O. Henry.
47 down : the 1922 Argonaut Gold Mine Disaster.
Hoboken, N.J. : J. Wiley, c2004.
TN805 Z6 B83 2004
Buckley, Geoffrey L., 1965-
Extracting Appalachia : images of the Consolidation Coal Company, 1910/1945.
Athens : Ohio University Press, 2004.
TP591 D36 K73 2004
Krass, Peter.
Blood and whiskey : the life and times of Jack Daniel.
Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, c2004.
U53 M67 A3 2004
Morton, Jerry, 1942-
Reluctant lieutenant : from basic to OCS in the sixties.
College Station : Texas A & M University Press, c2004.
V310 C65 2004
Connell, Royal W., 1948-
Naval ceremonies, customs, and traditions.
Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, c2004.
V825.3 F74 2004
Friedman, Norman, 1946-
U.S. destroyers : an illustrated design history.
Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, c2004.
Federal Government Publications
D 5.2:H 62/2/946-99
The History of the Unified Command Plan 1946-1999/ Joint History Office Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 2003
D 114.21:SP 1/2004/CD
The United States Army and the War with Spain/ United States Army Center of Military History, 2004
D 214.14/3:B 32
Thomas Holcomb and the Advent of the Marine Defense Battalion 1936-1941/ History and Museums Division, Marine Corps University, 2004
PR 43.8:B 52/R 29
Reproduction & Responsibility the Regulation of New Biotechnologies/ President’s Council on Bioethics, 2004
Available on the Internet: Link
PR 43.8:SP 1/J 82
A Journey to Inspire, Innovate and Discover/ President’s Commission on Implementation of United States Space Exploration Policy, 2004
Available on the Internet: Link
Y 3.2:C 44/C 76/2004
2004 Report to Congress of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission/ U.S. Government Printing Office, 2004
Wisconsin Government Publications
WI Gov. Pub. CHI 5.6:S 49/2004
Child Sexual Abuse Prevention : Tips for Parents / Children’s Trust Fund, 2004.
WI Gov. Pub. DEV 2.9/4:B 83/2/2003
Starting a Business? : Here’s Help / Wisconsin Department of Commerce, 2004.
Available on the Internet: Linkl
WI Gov. Pub. FIS.6/2:M 5/2/2004
Fishing and Boating on the Mississippi River / Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Bureau of Fisheries Management and Habitat Protection [and] Bureau of Watershed Management, 2004.
WI Gov. Pub. LEG 2.8:T 36/A 95/2004
Wisconsin Authors / Legislative Reference Bureau, 2004.
Available on the Internet: Link
WI Gov. Pub. NAT.9/4:A 11/2004
Hank Aaron State Trail / Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, 2004.
WI Gov. Pub. WORK.1/5:W 34/2004
Report and Recommendations of the Minimum Wage Advisory Council to Governor Jim Doyle, Secretary Roberta Gassman, Wisconsin State Legislature / State of Wisconsin, Department of Workforce Development, Equal Rights Division, Labor Standards Bureau, 2004.
Available on the Internet: PDF
WI Gov. Pub. TOU.6/2:E 4/2/2003
The Economic Impact of Expenditures by Travelers on Wisconsin. Highlight Summary, Calendar Year 2003 / Wisconsin Department of Tourism, 2004.
Available on the Internet: Link
New Collections in the Archives of the WHS
Manuscript Collections:
1. Fighting Bob Fest Videotapes
VHS tapes of speakers at the 2003 Fighting Bob Fest, a "Progressive Chautauqua" conducted in the memory and spirit of Wisconsin's preeminent Progressive, Robert M. Lafollette. The speakers included Lois Marie Gibbs, Russ Feingold, Bert Grover, Bernard Sanders, John Nichols, and Jim Hightower.
2. Ella J. Campbell Diaries
Diaries of Ella and Alfred Campbell (bulk by Ella), 1868-1943 with some small gaps. Ella "Pip" Davis (born ca. 1854) kept yearly diaries from her home in Galesville (Wis.). She married Alfred Campbell in 1877. The diary for that year was written by Alfred and the diary for 1878 was written by both Ella and Alfred, and includes the birth of their daughter, Louise Campbell; all subsequent diaries were written by Ella. The diaries begin when she is 14 and she discusses school, her family, and her work as a store clerk. Later diaries include her courtship and marriage, descriptions of the couple's daily activities, family concerns, social events, and consistent discussion of the weather. Many of the diaries also include business cards, news clippings, financial records, and various memorabilia collected by Ella during the year. This collection is housed at the La Crosse Area Research Center.
3. Turnverein Exercise Book
Bound volume and loose prints of Mid-19th century Turnverein exercises (pyramids and other acrobatic formations) with some handwritten notations. The bound volume also includes some programs and tickets from Turnverein demonstrations.
State Government Records Collections:
1. Wisconsin Conservation Congress
The state archives has recently accessioned over 15 cartons of recent records of the Wisconsin Conservation Congress. The Wisconsin Conservation Congress is an independent citizens organization founded in 1934 to provide advice to the Natural Resources Board on matters concerning hunting, fishing, and outdoor recreation. It is staffed by the Division of Legal Services of the Department of Natural Resources.
The records consist of memoranda, annual brochures concerning proposed regulations submitted to each county congress, voting results and analyses, resolutions submitted by the counties to the congress, committee reports, and some proceedings of the annual statewide meetings. Some issues prompted correspondence from individuals who did not attend the local or statewide meetings such as the extensive correspondence concerning hunting of mourning doves. Earlier records about the Congress are included in the Wisconsin Conservation Department subject files (Series 271) and the Department of Natural Resources subject files (Series 2550).
| Posted on August 12, 2004
