December 2004
Recent WHS Library Acquisitions
General Collection
BM755 R5455 A3 2004
Rosen, Milton J. (Milton Jehiel), 1906-1976.
An American rabbi in Korea : a chaplain's journey in the forgotten war.
Tuscaloosa :University of Alabama Press,c2004.
BX4705 M977 O27 2004
O'Brien, Thomas W.
John Courtney Murray in a Cold War context.
Lanham, Md. :University Press of America,c2004.
BX4705.T23 H84 2003
Huel, Raymond.
Archbishop A.-A.Taché of St. Boniface : the "good fight" and the illusive vision.
Edmonton :University of Alberta Press,2003.
BX8693 N54 2004
Nielson, Carol Holindrake.
The Salt Lake City 14th Ward album quilt, 1857 : stories of the Relief Society women and their quilt.
Salt Lake City :University of Utah Press,c2004.
D769.85.A71 F53 2003
Westerlund, John S. (John Stephen), 1945-
Arizona's war town : Flagstaff, Navajo Ordnance Depot, and World War II.
Tucson :University of Arizona Press,c2003.
DS559.5 G76 2004
Gross, Chuck, 1950-
Rattler one-seven : a Vietnam helicopter pilot's war story.
Denton :University of North Texas Press,c2004.
DU622 M38 2003
McMahon, Richard, 1928-
Adventuring in Hawai'i.
Honolulu :University of Hawai'i Press,2003.
E77 .N553 2003
Nichols, Roger L.
American Indians in U.S. history.
Norman :University of Oklahoma Press,c2003.
E78 C15 L47 2005
Lightfoot, Kent G., 1953-
Indians, missionaries, and merchants : the legacy of colonial encounters on the California frontiers.
Berkeley :University of California Press,c2005.
E78 C63 C66 2004
Complex hunter-gatherers : evolution and organization of prehistoric communities on the plateau of northwestern North America.
Salt Lake City :University of Utah Press,c2004.
E83.79 L98 2004
Lytle, Richard M., 1947-
Soldiers of America's first army, 1791.
Lanham, Md. :Scarecrow Press,2004.
E99 A6 I613 2004
Ingstad, Helge, 1899-
Apache Indians : in search of the missing tribe.
Lincoln :University of Nebraska Press,c2004.
E99 C5 D46 2004
Denson, Andrew.
Demanding the Cherokee Nation : Indian autonomy and American culture, 1830-1900.
Lincoln :University of Nebraska Press,c2004.
E99 C8 C77 2004
Choctaw tales.
Jackson :University Press of Mississippi,c2004.
E99 E7 B763 2004
Brower, Harry, 1924-
The whales, they give themselves : conversations with Harry Brower, Sr..
Fairbanks :University of Alaska Press,c2004.
E99 N3 M6865 2004
Moore, Lucy, 1944-
Into the canyon : seven years in Navajo country.
Albuquerque :University of New Mexico Press,2004.
E99 O3 B484 2004
Black Elk, 1863-1950.
Black Elk speaks : being the life story of a holy man of the Oglala Sioux.
Lincoln :University of Nebraska Press,c2004.
E175.45 C585 2004
Clio's southern sisters : interviews with leaders of the Southern Association for Women Historians.
Columbia :University of Missouri Press,c2004.
E175.45 S45 2004
Shapers of Southern history : autobiographical reflections.
Athens :University of Georgia Press,c2004.
E175.5 C56 T47 2003
Thomas D. Clark of Kentucky : an uncommon life in the Commonwealth.
Lexington, Ky. :University Press of Kentucky,c2003.
E178 .M57 1986
Meinig, D. W. (Donald William), 1924-
The shaping of America : a geographical perspective on 500 years of history.
New Haven :Yale University Press,c1986-c2004.
E185.93 M6 A85 2004
Andrews, Kenneth T.
Freedom is a constant struggle : the Mississippi civil rights movement and its legacy.
Chicago :University of Chicago Press,2004.
E185.97.W4 B666 2003
Booker T. Washington and black progress : Up from slavery 100 years later.
Gainesville :University Press of Florida,c2003.
E302.1 B495 2004
Beyond the founders : new approaches to the political history of the early American republic.
Chapel Hill :University of North Carolina Press,c2004.
E441 H73 2005
Horton, James Oliver.
Slavery and the making of America.
Oxford ; New York :Oxford University Press,c2005.
E449 E17 2004
Earle, Jonathan Halperin.
Jacksonian antislavery & the politics of free soil, 1824-1854.
Chapel Hill :University of North Carolina Press,c2004.
E457.5 E85 2004
Evans, C. Wyatt.
The legend of John Wilkes Booth : myth, memory, and a mummy.
Lawrence :University Press of Kansas,c2004.
E467.1 H18 M37 2004
Marszalek, John F., 1939-
Commander of all Lincoln's armies : a life of General Henry W. Halleck.
Cambridge, Mass. :Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,2004.
E468.9 M54 2004
The memory of the Civil War in American culture.
Chapel Hill :University of North Carolina Press,c2004.
E475.27 B358 2004
Ballard, Michael B.
Vicksburg : the campaign that opened the Mississippi.
Chapel Hill :University of North Carolina Press,c2004.
E475.4 C68 2004
Cotham, Edward T. (Edward Terrel), 1953-
Sabine Pass : the Confederacy's Thermopylae.
Austin :University of Texas Press,c2004.
E513.8 1st C48 2004
Chase, John W. (John Webster), b. 1825.
Yours for the Union : the Civil War letters of John W. Chase, First Massachusetts Light Artillery.
New York :Fordham University Press,2004.
E559.4 S28 2004
Scaife, William R. (William Robert), 1927-
Joe Brown's pets : the Georgia Militia, 1861-1865.
Macon, Ga. :Mercer University Press,c2004.
E605 F14 2004
Fain, Eliza Rhea Anderson, 1816-1892.
Fain, a Confederate woman in east Tennessee.
Knoxville :University of Tennessee Press,c2004.
E748 K53 M55 2004
Miller, Kristie, 1944-
Isabella Greenway : an enterprising woman.
Tucson :University of Arizona Press,c2004.
E757 B9714 2005
Burton, David Henry, 1925-
Taft, Roosevelt, and the limits of friendship.
Madison [N.J.] :Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,c2005.
E840.8 S537 A3 2004
Siciliano, Rocco C.
Walking on sand : the story of an immigrant son and the forgotten art of public service.
Salt Lake City :University of Utah Press,c2004.
E885 C554 2004
Clinton riddle : perspectives on the forty-second president.
Fayetteville :University of Arkansas Press,2004.
E902 R47 2004
Reshaping rogue states : preemption, regime change, and U.S. policy toward Iran, Iraq, and North Korea.
Cambridge, Mass. :MIT Press,c2004.
E902 T7 2004
Transformed by crisis : the presidency of George W. Bush and American politics.
New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2004.
F90 J5 J49 2004
The Jews of Rhode Island.
Waltham, Mass. : Hanover :Brandeis University Press ; University Press of New England,c2004.
F128.9 A1 F66 2004
Foote, Thelma Wills, 1956-
Black and white Manhattan : the history of racial formation in colonial New York City.
Oxford ; New York :Oxford University Press,2004.
F157 D3 M38 2003
McLarnon, John Morrison, 1949-
Ruling suburbia : John J. McClure and the Republican machine in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
Newark : London :University of Delaware Press ; Associated University Presses,c2003.
F216 A56 2004
Andrews, Sidney, 1837-1880.
The South since the war : as shown by fourteen weeks of travel and observation in Georgia and the Carolinas.
Baton Rouge :Louisiana State University Press,c2004.
F229 B53 B55 2004
Billings, Warren M., 1940-
Sir William Berkeley and the forging of colonial Virginia.
Baton Rouge :Louisiana State University Press,c2004.
F229 P56 2004
Philyaw, Leslie Scott.
Virginia's western visions : political and cultural expansion on an early American frontier.
Knoxville :University of Tennessee Press,c2004.
F326 T872 R63 2004
Rogers, William Warren, 1929-
August reckoning : Jack Turner and racism in post-Civil War Alabama.
Tuscaloosa :University of Alabama Press,c2004.
F342 M55 2004
Miller, Mary Carol.
Great houses of Mississippi.
Jackson :University Press of Mississippi,c2004.
F347 S9 M695 2004
Moye, J. Todd.
Let the people decide : Black freedom and White resistance movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986.
Chapel Hill :University of North Carolina Press,c2004.
F379 N59 N484 2004
Walker, Daniel E.
No more, no more : slavery and cultural resistance in Havana and New Orleans.
Minneapolis :University of Minnesota Press,c2004.
F391 H28 2004
Harris, Charles H. (Charles Houston)
The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution : the bloodiest decade, 1910-1920.
Albuquerque :University of New Mexico Press,2004.
F391.2 W655 2004
Woolley, Bryan.
Texas road trip : stories from across the great state and a few personal reflections.
Fort Worth :TCU Press,c2004.
F392.H37 C695 2004
Cozine, James.
Saving the Big Thicket : from exploration to preservation, 1685-2003.
Denton :Big Thicket Association : University of North Texas Press,c2004.
F466 .H58
A history of Missouri.
Columbia :University of Missouri Press,[1971-
F474 S29 C5 2004
Ling, Huping, 1956-
Chinese St. Louis : from enclave to cultural community.
Philadelphia :Temple University Press,2004.
F534 S54 P73 2004
Pratt, Dorothy O., 1949-
Shipshewana : an Indiana Amish community.
Bloomington :Quarry Books,c2004.
F548.3 .E53 2004
The encyclopedia of Chicago.
Chicago :University of Chicago Press,2004.
F548.54 H37 A3 2004
Hartfield, Ronne, 1936-
Another way home : the tangled roots of race in one Chicago family.
Chicago :University of Chicago Press,2004.
F832 C44 T36 2004
Taniguchi, Nancy J. (Nancy Jacobus), 1948-
Castle Valley America : hard land, hard-won home.
Logan, Utah :Utah State University Press,c2004.
F909 W53 2004
Whitehead, John S.
Completing the union : Alaska, Hawai'i, and the battle for statehood.
Albuquerque :University of New Mexico Press,2004.
GN21 R43 W55 2004
Wilcox, Clifford, 1956-
Robert Redfield and the development of American anthropology.
Lanham, Md. :Lexington Books,c2004.
GV865 W75 D48 2003
Devine, Christopher, 1984-
Harry Wright : the father of professional base ball.
Jefferson, NC :McFarland & Co.,c2003.
GV873 G76 2004
Growing up with baseball : how we loved and played the game.
Lincoln :University of Nebraska Press,c2004.
GV875 C7 K55 2004
Knight, Jonathan, 1976-
Opening day : Cleveland, the Indians, and a new beginning.
Kent, Ohio :Kent State University Press,c2004.
GV885.49 A45 G78 2004
Grundman, Adolph H.
The golden age of amateur basketball : the AAU Tournament, 1921-1968.
Lincoln :University of Nebraska Press,c2004.
GV943.7 I43 K63 2004
Knapp, Kathryn L., 1976-
Kickin' Hoosiers : Jerry Yeagley and championship soccer at Indiana.
Bloomington, IN :Quarry Books,c2004.
GV964.O8 A3 2004
Ouimet, Francis.
A game of golf.
Boston :Northeastern University Press,[2004]
GV1132 F56 K394 2004
Kaye, Andrew M., 1971-
The pussycat of prizefighting : Tiger Flowers and the politics of Black celebrity.
Athens, Ga. :University of Georgia Press,c2004.
HD2339 U6 H37 2004
Hapke, Laura.
Sweatshop : the history of an American idea.
New Brunswick, N.J. :Rutgers University Press,c2004.
HD6515 A82 I584 2004
Barnard, John, 1932-
American vanguard : the United Auto Workers during the Reuther years, 1935-1970.
Detroit :Wayne State University Press,c2004.
HE631 L8 B73 2004
Brasseaux, Carl A.
Steamboats on Louisiana's Bayous : a history and directory.
Baton Rouge :Louisiana State University Press,c2004.
HE2757 A54 2004
Angevine, Robert G.
The railroad and the state : war, politics, and technology in nineteenth-century America.
Stanford, Calif. :Stanford University Press,2004.
HE2791 W183 G73 2004
Grant, H. Roger, 1943-
"Follow the flag" : a history of the Wabash Railroad Company.
DeKalb :Northern Illinois University Press,c2004.
HQ145.C6 M33 2004
MacKell, Jan, 1962-
Brothels, bordellos, & bad girls : prostitution in Colorado, 1860-1930.
Albuquerque :University of New Mexico Press,2004.
HQ559 .N64 2003
Noël, Françoise, 1952-
Family life and sociability in Upper and Lower Canada, 1780-1870 : a view from diaries and family correspondence.
Montreal ; Ithaca :McGill-Queen's University Press,c2003.
HS2725 C4 U69 2004
Nowlan, James Dunlap, 1941-
Glory, darkness, light : a history of the Union League Club of Chicago.
Evanston, Ill. :Northwestern University Press,c2004.
JK116 S65 2004
Smith, Robert W., 1967-
Keeping the republic : ideology and early American diplomacy.
DeKalb :Northern Illinois University Press,c2004.
JK1759 R45 2004
Ricci, David M.
Good citizenship in America.
Cambridge, UK ; New York :Cambridge University Press,2004.
JK1764 P533 2004
Piacente, Albert.
Complete the American Revolution! : what 9-11, corporate scandal and the 2000 presidential election have in common and what we can do about it.
Lanham, Md. :Hamilton Books,c2004.
NC1429 C644 A4 2003
Conal, Robbie, 1944-
Artburn.
New York :RDV Books,c2003.
TL522 T4 R34 2004
Ragsdale, Kenneth Baxter, 1917-
Austin, cleared for takeoff : aviators, businessmen, and the growth of an American city.
Austin :University of Texas Press,2004.
U433.O54 M67 2001
Moss, Mark Howard, 1962-
Manliness and militarism : educating young boys in Ontario for war.
Don Mills, Ont. ; New York :Oxford University Press,2001.
UB418 A47 W45 2004
Weir, William, 1928-
The encyclopedia of African American military history.
Amherst, N.Y. :Prometheus Books,2004.
V63 S85 A3 2004
Summitt, C. D., 1924-
Tales of a Cold War submariner.
College Station :Texas A&M University Press,c2004.
V63 T43 E95 2004
Ewing, Steve.
Thach weave : the life of Jimmie Thach.
Annapolis, Md. :Naval Institute Press,c2004.
V63 W554 A3 2004
Wilson, Frederick T., b. 1868.
A sailor's log : water-tender Frederick T. Wilson, USN, on Asiatic Station, 1899-1901.
Kent, Ohio :Kent State University Press,c2004.
Z480 R4 N67 2004
Nord, David Paul.
Faith in reading : religious publishing and the birth of mass media in America.
New York :Oxford University Press,2004.
Federal Government Publications
C 3.266:2003
Federal Aid to States for Fiscal Year 2003/ U.S. Census Bureau, 2004
Available on the Internet: Link
D 101.2: C 44
Dragon Bytes Chinese Information War Theory and Practice/ Foreign Military Studies Office, 2004
D 114.2:SP 1/2
Space Warriors: The Army Space Support Team/ U.S. Army, 2003
D 214.9/6:12-13
Maneuver in War reprint of 1939 edition/ U.S. Marine Corps, 1994
D 214.9/6:12-96-SUPP
German Experiences in Desert warfare During World War II, Supplement/ U.S. Marine Corp., 1990
D 301.2:B 63/5
Development of the B-52 the Wright Field Story/ History Office Aeronautical Systems Center Air Force Materiel Command Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, 2004
HE 23.1102:H 34/7/V.3
Making a Difference in the Lives of Infants and Toddlers and Their Families: The Impacts of Early Head Start, Vol.111:Local Contributions to Understanding the Program and Their Impacts/ 2002
HS 5.108:SCH 6
Risk Management Series Design Guide for Improving School Safety in Earthquakes, Floods, and High Winds Providing Protection to People and Buildings/ Federal Emergency Management Administration, 2004
Available on the Internet: Link
I 29.2:AR 2/27
Archaeological Sites of Kamchatka, Chukotka, and the Upper Kolyma/ National Park Service, 2003
I 29.2:UB 6
Ublasaun First Light, Inupiaq Hunters and Herders in the Early Twentieth Century, Northern Seward Penninsula, Alaska/ National Park Service, 2004
I 29.86/4:EU 4
Final Draft Cultural Landscape Report Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site/ National Park Service, 2004
L 2.3/11:2002
Occupational Injuries and Illnesses: Counts, Rates, and Characteristics, 2002/
Department of Labor, 2004
Y 10.2: AN 1/3
A Budgetary Analysis of Nasa's New Vision for Space Exploration/ Congressional Budget Office, 2004
Available on the Internet: Link
Wisconsin Government Publications
Wisconsin Sex Offender Registry Information. Wisconsin Department of Corrections, 2003.
Available on the Internet: Link
WI Gov. Pub. ED.1/2:O 64/2003
The Wisconsin Inter-District Public School Open Enrollment Program, 2000-01 to 2002-03. Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, 2004.
Available on the Internet: PDF
WI Gov. Pub. LEG.3:SB/2004/7
Overview of the Election Law in Wisconsin. Wisconsin Legislative Council, 2004.
Available on the Internet: PDF
WI Gov. Pub. LEG 2.6/2:L 4/2/2004
Summary of the Wisconsin Legislative Session, 2003-2004. Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau, 2004.
Available on the Internet: PDF
WI Gov. Pub. LEG 2.8:T 36/V 48/2004
Veterans Day. Legislative Reference Bureau, 2004.
Available on the Internet: Link
WI Gov. Pub. TRN.1/2:M 67/2003
Wisconsin Motorcycle Safety Facts Book, 2003. Wisconsin Department of Transportation, 2004.
Available on the Internet: PDF
New Collections in the Archives of the WHS
Manuscript Collections:
1. Pew Center for Civic Journalism (PCCJ)
Established by the Pew Charitable Trusts, the PCCJ was intended to help stimulate citizen involvement in community issues by helping print and broadcast news organization's experiment with ways to reconnect to their communities and engage their citizens in dialogue and problem solving through their stories. The collection consists primarily of papers, tear sheets, video and tape recordings of prize-winning and grant-funded entries in the organization's James K. Batten Award for Excellence in Civic Journalism competition. Awards were offered in four different categories including newspaper/magazine, television broadcast, radio broadcast and online. The Pew Center for Civic Journalism shared the results of various civic journalism experiments with the journalism community through its workshops, quarterly newsletters, publications, videos and other outreach programs.
2. George Fred and William Keck
Additions consisting of transparencies and project files of architects George Fred and William Keck. These two brothers, natives of Watertown, Wisconsin, pioneered the use of passive solar construction in the 1940s. The transparencies include images of projects designed by Keck & Keck (1934-1963) and are arranged by project name and number. There is a card file index to the projects arranged alphabetically. The paper records include project files, licenses, tax returns, and other miscellaneous materials.
3. Highlander Research and Education Center (HREC)
Additions to HREC, an adult education center, consisting of materials from the Highlander Archives including interviews, transcriptions, and other materials relating to Highlander's 50th anniversary; and correspondence, administrative and subject files of staff members John Gaventa, Sue Thrasher, Juliet Merrifield, and Myles Horton documenting projects, conferences, workshops and international exchanges and visits. Also included are sound recordings, transcripts, photographs and other files related to the book, "We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change" by Myles Horton and Paulo Freire (1990). Files include correspondence, minutes, annual reports, financial records, workshop materials, legal papers, questionnaires, clippings, speeches, writings, publications, photographs, tape recordings, and videotapes.
4. Clara Middleton
Photographs and papers of the Middleton family consisting of prints, negatives, and scans of photographs taken by Clara Middleton (1852-1910), her husband William (1866-1955), and their son, Forest (1892-1990). The family lived in an apartment on 22 E. Mifflin St. in Madison (Wis.) where many of the photographs were taken. Subjects include family members, family pets, and buildings and scenes in Madison such as the old Capitol and the University of Wisconsin. There are reference scans for most of the images in the collection.
5. Barry Conners
Papers of Barry Conners (1882-1933), a playwright and vaudeville entertainer consisting of correspondence, news clippings, playbills and advertisements, scrapbooks, union-related documents, and scripts. The news clipping document play openings, reviews, and interviews with Conners. The scrapbooks consist of photographs and news clippings about performers and performances of some of Connors plays. Also included is documentation of Connor's involvement with the White Rats Actors' Union including his membership card, memorandum of agreement, union correspondence, and Conners' personal writings about the union. The bulk of the collection consists of scripts from plays and radio broadcasts written by Connors including early drafts and completed manuscripts. In addition there are photographs including images of Conners, billboards announcing his plays, assorted friends from the vaudeville community, and family members.
State Government Records:
1. Additions to Governor Tommy Thompson Papers
Four cartons of speeches, speech cards, preliminary drafts, and working files of speechwriter Peggy Dooley, have been added to the official gubernatorial papers of Tommy Thompson at the State Archives. These boxes partially fill a gap for the years 1993-1996 in the speeches received by the Archives when Thompson left office. Additional materials include briefing books prepared for Thompson's foreign trade mission and drafts of several State of the State addresses.
Local Government Records:
1. County Court (Winnebago County). Case files, 1909-1938.
Qty: 25.0 c.f.
Summary: County Court Cases dealing with civil actions. Legal papers include complaints, summonses, affidavits, petitions, court orders, and decrees. Additional accessions dating 1909-1938 (Cases #2255-5023). About 70% of these are divorces. See inventory for details.
Location: Winnebago Series 129/C2004/014
Call Number: Oshkosh Area Research Center
2. Circuit Court (Winnebago County). Index to case files, 1901-1977.
Qty: 2.0 c.f. (5 volumes) and 69 sheets of microfiche.
Summary: Index to civil case files and some criminal files. Entries consist of names of the plaintiffs and defendants, case file number, volume and page recorded in the Court Record, and type of case or document filed. Volumes 1-3 cover case files numbered approximately 9480-21650; Volume 4, 1938-1953; and Volume 5, 1954-1970. The microfiche indexes cases ca. 1965-1977 plus County Court cases and includes cases that are not in archival custody.
Location: Oshkosh Area Research Center
Call Number: Winnebago Series 118
3. Circuit Court (Trempealeau County). Naturalization records, 1857-1954.
Qty: 3.0 c.f. and 6 reels of microfilm (35mm)
Summary: Records of naturalization cases in the Circuit Court of Trempealeau County. Records include Declarations of Intention (ca. 1852-1952), Petitions (1906-1954), Certificates (1871-1906), indexes to these records, Petitions Granted (1930-1952), and Oath Applications (1941-1953.
Location: La Crosse Area Research Center
Call Number: Trempealeau Series 47
4. Ozaukee County. Register of Deeds. Deeds [microform], 1835-1911.
Qty: 22 reels of microfilm (35mm)
Summary: Documents recording the conveyance of real estate. Entries show number and type of deed, date, names of grantor and grantee, description of property, names of witnesses, amount paid, date recorded, and notarial acknowledgement. Deeds span 1835-1889, with a few in Volume 19 that were recorded through 1911.
Location: Milwaukee Area Research Center
Call Number: Ozaukee Series 13
5. Ozaukee County. Register of Deeds. Grantor/grantee indexes, 1835-1908.
Qty: 3 reels of microfilm (35mm)
Summary: Index to Ozaukee County real estate deeds (Ozaukee Series 13) noting names of grantors (sellers) and grantees (purchasers). Noted are date and time the deed was recorded, names of grantor and grantee, type of instrument, description of the property, and sometimes the volume and page number of the deed record where the instrument is recorded.
Location: Milwaukee Area Research Center
Call Number: Ozaukee Series 9
| Posted on December 16, 2004
