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Previous Recent Acquisitions

March 2005

Recent WHS Library Acquisitions


General Collection

BL245 I87 2004
Israel, Charles A. (Charles Alan), 1973-
Before Scopes : evangelicalism, education, and evolution in Tennessee, 1870-1925.
Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2004.

BL2527 P45 M67 2005
Moss, Roger W., 1940-
Historic sacred places of Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005.

BX7260 B9 M67 2004
Morita, Michiyo.
Horace Bushnell on women in nineteenth-century America.
Lanham, MD : University Press of America, 2004.

BX7635 H26 2003
Hamm, Thomas D.
The Quakers in America.
New York : Columbia University Press, 2003.

CT275 R8855 A5 2004
Russell, Sally, 1942-
A heart for any fate : the biography of Richard Brevard Russell, Sr.
Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, c2004.

D13.2 O94 2004
Owen, Jim.
The hidden history of the historic fundamentalists, 1933-1948 : reconsidering the historic fundamentalists' response to the upheavals, hardships, and horrors of the 1930s and 1940s.
Lanham : University Press of America, c2004.

D769.8 A6 D44 2004
De Nevers, Klancy Clark.
The colonel and the pacifist : Karl Bendetsen, Perry Saito, and the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.
Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, c2004.

DS558 V478 2004
Vietnam chronicles : the Abrams tapes, 1968-1972.
Lubbock : Texas Tech University Press, c2004.

E78 M65 I63 2004
Indian and European contact in context : the Mid-Atlantic Region.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2004.

E78 S65 E16 2004
Early pottery : technology, function, style, and interaction in the lower Southeast.
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2004.

E78 T4 P72 2004
The prehistory of Texas.
College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2004.

E99 C9 G65 2004
Gouge, Earnest, ca. 1865-1955.
Totkv mocvse = New fire : Creek folktales.
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2004.

E99 D1 U9 2004
Utley, Robert Marshall, 1929-
The last days of the Sioux Nation.
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2004.

E160 A578 2004
America's national park roads and parkways : drawings from the Historic American Engineering Record.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.

E161 S48 2005
Simpson, Mark, 1967-.
Trafficking subjects : the politics of mobility in nineteenth-century America.
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2005.

E184 A1 C565 2004
The Columbia documentary history of race and ethnicity in America.
New York : Columbia University Press, 2004.

E184 S64 A415 2004
Alexander, June Granatir, 1948-
Ethnic pride, American patriotism : Slovaks and other new immigrants in the interwar era.
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2004.

E184 S75 C644 2004
The Columbia history of Latinos in the United States since 1960.
New York : Columbia University Press, c2004.

E185.61 U63 2004
Upchurch, Thomas Adams.
Legislating racism : the billion dollar congress and the birth of Jim Crow.
Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2004.

E209 E45 2005
Empire and nation : the American Revolution in the Atlantic world.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.

E353.1 D29 T83 2005
Tucker, Spencer, 1937-
Stephen Decatur : a life most bold and daring.
Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, c2005.

E441 S974 2004
Sugar, slavery, and society : perspectives on the Caribbean, India, the Mascarenes, and the United States.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2004.

E449 B67 2005
Blue, Frederick J.
No taint of compromise : crusaders in antislavery politics.
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2005.

E559.9 B76 2004
Brown, Russell K.
"Our connection with Savannah" : history of the First Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters, 1862-1865.
Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, c2004.

E802.1 H75 Y68 2004
Young, Nancy Beck.
Lou Henry Hoover : activist first lady.
Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2004.

E841 I47 2005
Impossible to hold : women and culture in the 1960's.
New York : New York University Press, c2005.

F128.9 H9 K36 2005
Kamil, Neil, 1954-
Fortress of the soul : violence, metaphysics, and material life in the Huguenots' New World, 1517-1751.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.

F209.5 B75 2005
Bridging Southern cultures : an interdisciplinary approach.
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2005.

F285 C775 2005
Cook, James F.
Governors of Georgia, 1754-2004.
Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, c2005.

F349 O94 T47 2005
Thomas-Houston, Marilyn M.
"Stony the road" to change : Black Mississippians and the culture of social relations.
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

F392 K45 M45 2004
Meinzer, Wyman.
6666 : portrait of a Texas ranch.
Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech University Press, c2004.

F548.25 M39 2005
The Mayors : the Chicago political tradition.
Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2005.

F805 A1 M58 2005
Mitchell, Pablo.
Coyote nation : sexuality, race, and conquest in modernizing New Mexico, 1880-1920.
Chicago : University Of Chicago Press, 2005.

F861 S225 2005
Sackman, Douglas Cazaux, 1968-
Orange empire : California and the fruits of Eden.
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.

F866.4 B75 R37 2005
Rarick, Ethan, 1964-
California rising : the life and times of Pat Brown.
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.

F869 L89 N4 2005
Flamming, Douglas.
Bound for freedom : Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America.
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.

F870 J3 J27 2005
Common ground : the Japanese American National Museum and the culture of collaborations.
Boulder : University Press of Colorado, c2005.

F1075.8 .A43 2004
Alberta premiers of the twentieth century.
Regina, Sask. : Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina, 2004.

GE155 O7 R58 2004
Robbins, William G., 1935-
Landscapes of conflict : the Oregon story, 1940-2000.
Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2004.

GN21 A6 L44 2004
Leeds-Hurwitz, Wendy.
Rolling in ditches with shamans : Jaime de Angulo and the professionalization of American anthropology.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2004.

GV865 S525 H84 2004
Huhn, Rick, 1944-
The Sizzler : George Sisler, baseball's forgotten great.
Columbia, MO : University of Missouri Press, c2004.

GV958 U5854 C67 2004
Cox, John W.
Rock solid : Southern Miss football.
Jackson, Miss. : University Press of Mississippi, c2004.

HD6509 W456 A3 2004
Weir, Stan.
Singlejack solidarity.
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2004.

HD8081 M6 V36 2005
Vargas, Zaragosa.
Labor rights are civil rights : Mexican American workers in twentieth-century America.
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2005.

HF5415.33 U6 J33 2004
Jacobson, Lisa, 1962-
Raising consumers : children and the American mass market in the early twentieth century.
New York : Columbia University Press, 2004.

HG8963 G942 W75 2004
Wright, Robert E. (Robert Eric), 1969-
Mutually beneficial : the Guardian and Life Insurance in America.
New York : New York University Press, c2004.

HV6533.M4 W36 2004
Walley, Craig, 1943-
Murder at Mount Hermon : the unsolved killing of headmaster Elliott Speer.
Boston : Northeastern University Press, c2004.

HV6791 V36 2004
Van Deburg, William L.
Hoodlums : Black villains and social bandits in American life.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.

JK275 D86 2004
Dunn, Paul (Paul R.)
Touching raw nerves : a liberal Yankee columnist takes on conservative Dixie.
Lanham, Md. : Hamilton Books, 2004.

JV6483 L85 2005
Lui, Mary Ting Li, 1967-
The Chinatown trunk mystery : murder, miscegenation, and other dangerous encounters in turn-of-the-century New York City.
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2005.

JV7220 .C37 2004
Canadian migration patterns from Britain and North America.
Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, c2004.

UG1242 B6 H4725 2004
Hoffman, Richard Alden, 1926-
The fighting flying boat : a history of the Martin PBM Mariner.
Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, c2004.

V63 H66 W55 2004
Williams, Kathleen Broome, 1944-
Grace Hopper : admiral of the cyber sea.
Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, c2004.


Wisconsin Government Publications

WI Gov. Pub. AUD 2.1/2:S 46/2005
SeniorCare Eligibility Determinations : Letter Report / Legislative Audit Bureau, 2005.
Available on the Internet: PDF

WI Gov. Pub. FOR.6/2:N 89/2/2005
Northern Highland-American Legion State Forest Trail Guide / Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Division of Forestry, 2005.
Available on the Internet: PDF

WI Gov. Pub. INU.6/2:H 4/10/2004
Health Insurance for Small Employers and Their Employees, 12/2004 / State of Wisconsin, Office of the Commissioner of Insurance, 2004.
Available on the Internet: Link

WI Gov. Pub. LEG 2.6/2:W 65/2005
Wisconsin Women Legislators : a Historical List, Jan. 2005 / Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau, 2005.
Available on the Internet: PDF

WI Gov. Pub. NAT.6/2:P 435/2004
Birds of Pheasant Branch Conservancy / Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Bureau of Integrated Science Services, 2004.
Available on the Internet: PDF

WI Gov. Pub. REV.2:I 53/2004
Wisconsin Tax Incidence Study / Wisconsin Department of Revenue, Division of Research and Policy, 2004.
Available on the Internet: Link

WI Gov. Pub. Z.1/2:S 46/2004
Biennial Report, 2003/2004 / Office of the Senate Chief Clerk and Director of Operations, 2004.


New Collections in the Archives of the WHS

Manuscript Collections:

1. Editorial cartoons.
Additions to the collections of Tom Curtis (Milwaukee Sentinel), Bill Sanders (Milwaukee Journal), and Joe Heller (Green Bay Post-Gazette) consisting of original political cartoons primarily relating to Wisconsin state and local issues.

2. Edmund Packard Diary.
Original diary and typed transcript written by Packard in 1865 while serving in the 31st Wisconsin Infantry, Company K. The diary includes daily entries describing the weather, camp life, marches, occasional skirmishes, and the battle of Bentonville. Also included is an undated photograph of the Packard family.

Local Government Records:

1. Circuit Court (Rock County). Naturalization records, 1839-1983.
Quantity: 427 reels of microfilm (35mm)
Arrangement: By type of record.
Summary: Records of naturalization cases in the Circuit Court of Rock County. Records include Declarations of Intention (1839-1979); Petitions and Certificates (1869-1983); indexes to these records; and Ancillary Documents (1858-1983) including Transfer Petitions, Court Orders, and Repatriations
Location: Whitewater Area Research Center
Call Number: Rock Series 41


2. Circuit Court (Outagamie County) Naturalization records, 1852-1963.
Quantity: 19 reels of microfilm (35mm)
Summary: Records of naturalization cases in the Circuit Court of Outagamie County. Records include Declarations of Intention (1852-1963); Certificates of Naturalization and Petitions (1853-1906); Petitions (1907-1963), indexes to these records (1852-1963), Transfer Petitions (1960-1962), and Orders Granting and Denying Petitions (1929-1963).
Location: Green Bay Area Research Center
Call Number: Outagamie Series 5


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