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Previous Recent Acquisitions

November 2006

Recent WHS Library Acquisitions

General Collection

BM135 P53 2006
Place of our own : the rise of Reform Jewish camping : essays honoring the fiftieth anniversary of Olin-Sang-Ruby Union Institute, Union for Reform Judaism, in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2006.

CT275 L5 V46 2005
Venet, Wendy Hamand.
Strong-minded woman : the life of Mary Livermore.
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2005.

DS559.62 U6 N53 2006
Nickerson, James F.
Out of chaos : reflections of a university president and his contemporaries on Vietnam-era unrest in Mankato and its relevance today.
Mankato, Minn. : Minnesota State University, Mankato Foundation, c2006.

E78 O3 C38 2006
Caves and culture : 10,000 years of Ohio history.
Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, c2006.

E93 C349 2006
Castile, George Pierre.
Taking charge : Native American self-determination and Federal Indian policy, 1975-1993.
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2006.

E98 S48 G55 2006
Gilley, Brian Joseph, 1972-
Becoming two-spirit : gay identity and social acceptance in Indian country.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2006.

E99 E7 B8888 2006
Burch, Ernest S., 1938-
Social life in northwest Alaska : the structure of InL upiaq Eskimo nations.
Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, c2006.

E99 S28 O88 2006
Wickman, Patricia R. (Patricia Riles)
Osceola's legacy.
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2006.

E125 S7 V4433 2006
Beyond books and borders : Garcilaso de la Vega and La Florida del Inca.
Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, c2006.

E162 D395 2006
Delbourgo, James, 1972-
Most amazing scene of wonders : electricity and enlightenment in early America.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006.

E176.2 P84 2006
Presidential companion : readings on the first ladies.
Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, c2006.

E185.61 S913 2005
Strain, Christopher B., 1970-
Pure fire : self-defense as activism in the civil rights era.
Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2005.

E276 G86 2006
Gundersen, Joan R.
To be useful to the world : women in revolutionary America, 1740-1790.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.

E302.6 M45 B76 2006
Broadwater, Jeff.
George Mason, forgotten founder.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.

E397 C73 2006
Crapol, Edward P.
John Tyler : the accidental president.
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, c2006.

E457.2 S8 2006
Steiner, Mark E.
Honest calling : the law practice of Abraham Lincoln.
DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, c2006.

E467.1 D27 C36 2006
Cashin, Joan E.
First lady of the Confederacy : Varina Davis's Civil War.
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006.

E476.7 S325 2006
Scales, John R.
Sherman invades Georgia : planning the north Georgia campaign using a modern perspective.
Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, c2006.

E476.7 S34 2006
Secrist, Philip L.
Sherman's 1864 trail of battle to Atlanta.
Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, 2006.

E506.5 32nd A84 2006
August Willich's gallant Dutchmen : Civil War letters from the 32nd Indiana Infantry.
Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, c2006.

E605 W57 2006
When this evil war is over : the correspondence of the Francis family, 1860-1865.
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2006.

E612 A5 R84 2006
Ruhlman, R. Fred, 1940-
Captain Henry Wirz and Andersonville Prison : a reappraisal.
Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2006.

E628 L69 2006
Lowry, Thomas P. (Thomas Power), 1932-
Confederate heroines : 120 southern women convicted by Union military justice.
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2006.

E661 F58 2007
Flanagan, Maureen A., 1948-
America reformed : Progressives and progressivisms, 1890s-1920s.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

E664 M96 M37 2006
Marszalek, John F., 1939-
Black congressman in the age of Jim Crow : South Carolina's George Washington Murray.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2006.

E767.1 H84 2006
Hogan, J. Michael, 1953-
Woodrow Wilson's western tour : rhetoric, public opinion, and the League of Nations.
College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2006.

E806 L365 2006
Lawson, R. Alan, 1934-
Commonwealth of hope : the New Deal response to crisis.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.

E836 W34 2006
Wagner, Steven (Steven T.)
Eisenhower Republicanism : pursuing the middle way.
DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, c2006.

E840.8 T73 F55 2006
Flippen, J. Brooks, 1959-
Conservative conservationist : Russell E. Train and the emergence of American environmentalism.
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2006.

E872 K38 2006
Kaufman, Burton Ira.
Presidency of James Earl Carter, Jr..
Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2006.

E887 C55 T76 2006
Troy, Gil.
Hillary Rodham Clinton : polarizing first lady.
Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2006.

E903.3 B55 2006
Blumenthal, Sidney, 1948-
How Bush rules : chronicles of a radical regime.
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006.

F41.3 C46 2006
Cenkl, Pavel, 1971-
This vast book of nature : writing the landscape of New Hampshire's White Mountains, 1784-1911.
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2006.

F127 H8 R56 2006
Rinaldi, Thomas E.
Hudson Valley ruins : forgotten landmarks of an American landscape.
Hanover : University Press of New England, c2006.

F134 G35 2006
Gale, Dennis E.
Greater New Jersey : living in the shadow of Gotham.
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2006.

F208.2 W35 2006
Walker, Melissa, 1962-
Southern farmers and their stories : memory and meaning in oral history.
Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2006.

F216.2 L66 2006
Looking beyond the highway : Dixie roads and culture.
Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2006.

F217 B6 W47 2006
Whisnant, Anne Mitchell.
Super-scenic motorway : a Blue Ridge Parkway history.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.

F326.5 H57 2006
History and hope in the heart of Dixie : scholarship, activism, and Wayne Flynt in the modern South.
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2006.

F369 G37 2006
GerstaL cker, Friedrich, 1816-1872.
GerstaL cker's Louisiana : fiction and travel sketches from antebellum times through Reconstruction.
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2006.

F474 S135 S76 2006
Stepenoff, Bonnie, 1949-
From French community to Missouri town : Ste. Genevieve in the nineteenth century.
Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2006.

F591 E85 2006
Etulain, Richard W.
Beyond the Missouri : the story of the American West.
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2006.

F592.7 L42 G85 2006
By his own hand? : the mysterious death of Meriwether Lewis.
Norman : Oklahoma University Press, c2006.

F596.2 R32 2006
Race, religion, region : landscapes of encounter in the American West.
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2006.

F786 M42 2006
MartiL nez, Oscar J. (Oscar JaL quez), 1943-
Troublesome border.
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2006.

F790 M5 M47 2006
Macias, Thomas, 1967-
Mestizo in America : generations of Mexican ethnicity in the suburban Southwest.
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2006.

F865 S93 H87 2006
Hurtado, Albert L., 1946-
John Sutter : a life on the North American frontier.
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2006.

F869 L89 A2535 2006
Leonard, Kevin Allen, 1964-
Battle for Los Angeles : racial ideology and World War II.
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2006.

F869 L89 N4 2006
Vargas, JoaL o Helion Costa.
Catching hell in the city of angels : life and meanings of Blackness in south central Los Angeles.
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2006.

F891 W79 2006
Winthrop, Theodore, 1828-1861.
Canoe and the saddle : a critical edition.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2006.

F910.5 B87 2006
Burke, Michael D., 1953-
Same river twice : a boatman's journey home.
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2006.

GV1834 G76 2006
Groves, Melody, 1952-
Ropes, reins, and rawhide : all about rodeo.
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2006.

Select Magazines/Newspapers

Memories and dreams.
Cooperstown, NY : National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
Subject: Baseball.

Streeter : a newsletter from Broom Street Theater.
Madison, WI : Broom Street Theater.
Subject: Theater—Wisconsin--Madison.

Montreal forum : quarterly publication of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Montreal.
Montreal : Jewish Genealogical Society of Montreal.
Subject: Jews--Quebec (Province)—Montreal--Genealogy.

Safe community news : a newsletter from the Safe Community Coalition of Madison and Dane County.
Madison, WI : Safe Community Coalition of Madison and Dane County.
Subject: Safety education--Wisconsin.

Amerikan uutiset : the Finnish update.
Lake Worth, Fla. : Finnish Media Group.
Subject: Finns—Florida--Newspapers.

Collegiate.
Madison, WI : One City Media.
Subject: College students--United States.

Catholic family news.
Niagara Falls, NY : Catholic Family News.
Subject: Spiritual life--Catholic Church.

Red Currahee courier.
Ramadi, Iraq : 1-506th Infantry.
Subject: Iraq War, 2003-

Sand box.
[Kuwait Naval Base, Kuwait] : US Navy NAVELSF, Forward Charlie Direct Supply Support.
Subject: Iraq War, 2003-

Sandstorm.
[Iraq] : 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10 Mountain Division.
Subject: Iraq War, 2003-

Wisconsin Government Publications

WI Gov. Pub. FORW.6/2:B 54/2006/CD
Bioscience Wisconsin 2006 / Wisconsin Association for Biomedical Research and Education : Forward Wisconsin.

WI Gov. Pub. REV.1/2:C 67/4/2006
Corporate Tax Burden Comparison. Wood Products Industry / Wisconsin Dept. of Revenue, Division of Research and Policy.
Available on the Internet: pdf

WI Gov. Pub. GO BIC.6/2:E 36/2006
The Economic Impact of Bicycling in Wisconsin / Governor's Bicycle Coordinating Council.
Available on the Internet: pdf

WI Gov. Pub. ENV 5.1/6:2010
EE 2010: A Plan for Advancing Environmental Education in Wisconsin / Wisconsin Environmental Education Board.
Available on the Internet: pdf

WI Gov. Pub. HE.1/2:H 41/2005
On Wisconsin's health / Bureau of Health Information and Policy.
Available on the Internet: pdf

WI Gov. Pub. LEG 2.3:B/2006/13
State agencies, boards, commissions and councils created, repealed, or altered by the 2005 Legislature: 2005 Wisconsin acts 1-491 (as of August 10, 2006) / Legislative Reference Bureau.
Available on the Internet: pdf

WI Gov. Pub. LEG 2.9/2:G 55/2006/3
Wisconsin National Guard, 2006 / Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau.
Available on the Internet: pdf

WI Gov. Pub. HE.1/6:A 37/2005
Wisconsin Nutrition and Physical Activity State Plan: A Comprehensive Plan to Prevent Obesity and Reduce Chronic Disease in Wisconsin / Wisconsin Nutrition and Physical Activity Program.
Available on the Internet: pdf

Canadian Government Publications

Government On-Line 2006 / Government of Canada, 2005.

United States Government Publications

D 110.2:B 19
Faith and Hope in a War-Torn Land : The US Army Chaplaincy in the Balkans, 1995-2005 / Combat Studies Institute Press, 2006.

D 114.2:C 67/2/EUROPE
Building for Peace : U.S. Army Engineers in Europe 1945-1991 / Center for Military History, 2005.

D 114.2:M 31/2/992
The U.S. Army GHQ Maneuvers of 1941 /Center for Military History, 1992.

I 29.58/3:W 57
Ebbey's Landing National Historical Reserve Historic Resources Study, National Park Service, 2005.

Y 10.2:W 29/7
How Federal Policies Affect the Allocation of Water : A CPO Paper /Congressional Budget Office, 2006.

Y 10.2:C 73/6
The Army's Future Combat Systems Program and Alternatives : a CBO Study / Congressional Budget Office, 2006.

Y 4.IN 8/18:Al 7/2
Al-Qaeda : the Many Faces of an Islamist Extremist Threat : Report of the U.S. Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence / U.S. Government Printing Office, 2006.

D 301.82/7:K 84/9
Silver Wings, Golden Valor: The USAF Remembers Korea / Air Force History and Museums Program, 2006.

F 101.2:H 62/9
An Encounter with History, the 98th Division(Institutional Training) the Global War on Terrorism, 2001-2005 / Evolution Impressions, 2006.

D 101.48:145-301-MSL
Tactical Leadership MSL 301 / Pearson Custom Publishing, 2005.

D 101.48:145-200-MSL
Foundations of Leadership MSL II/ Pearson Custom Publishing, 2005.

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