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Previous Recent Acquisitions

February 2007

Recent WHS Library Acquisitions

General Collection

BX4220.U6 H69 2006
Hoy, Suellen M.
Good hearts : Catholic sisters in Chicago's past.
Urbana [Ill.] : University of Illinois Press, c2006.

BX8117 K36 L64 2006
Loewen, Royden, 1954-
Diaspora in the countryside : two Mennonite communities and mid-twentieth-century rural disjuncture.
Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, 2006.

CT275.T3525 A3 2006
Taylor, Henry, 1825-1931.
From lead mines to gold fields : memories of an incredibly long life.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2006.

D804.7.P73 L44 2005
Leff, Laurel, 1957-
Buried by the Times : the Holocaust and America's most important newspaper.
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

E18.82 .P47 2004
Pestana, Carla Gardina.
English Atlantic in an age of revolution, 1640-1661.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.

E76.45 L57 T73 2006
Tracking ancient footsteps : William D. Lipe's contributions to southwestern prehistory and public archaeology.
Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University Press, c2006.

E78 F6 M87 2006
Murphree, Daniel S.
Constructing Floridians : Natives and Europeans in the colonial Floridas, 1513-1783.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2006.

E78 G67 B53 2006
Blackhawk, Ned.
Violence over the land : Indians and empires in the early American West.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c2006.

E78 S65 P69 2006
Powhatan's mantle : Indians in the colonial Southeast.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2006.

E99 M76 M55 2006
Mimbres society.
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2006.

E99 N3 N38 2006
Navajo people and uranium mining.
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c2006.

E99.O3 C72163 2006
Bray, Kingsley M., 1956-
Crazy Horse : a Lakota life.
Norman : University of Oklahoma, c2006.

E162 C47 2007
Children in colonial America.
New York : New York University Press, c2007.

E195 .M33 2006
McConville, Brendan, 1962-
King's three faces : the rise & fall of royal America, 1688-1776.
Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, c2006.

E209 W35 2007
War & society in the American Revolution : mobilization and home fronts.
DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, c2007.

E221 A735 2007
Armitage, David, 1965-
Declaration of independence : a global history.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.

E382 W28 2006
Warshauer, Matthew, 1965-
Andrew Jackson and the politics of martial law : nationalism, civil liberties, and partisanship.
Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2006.

E445 M4 P48 2006
Petrulionis, Sandra Harbert, 1959-
To set this world right : the antislavery movement in Thoreau's Concord.
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2006.

E445 V8 W65 2006
Wolf, Eva Sheppard, 1969-
Race and liberty in the new nation : emancipation in Virginia from the Revolution to Nat Turner's Rebellion.
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2006.

E449 T68 2006
Torbett, David.
Theology and slavery : Charles Hodge and Horace Bushnell.
Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, c2006.

E467.1 H495 T47 2006
Thompson, Jerry D.
Civil war to the bloody end : the life & times of Major General Samuel P. Heintzelman.
College Station : Texas A & M University Press, c2006.

E467.1 O44 A3 2006
Oldham, Williamson Simpson, 1813-1868.
Rise and fall of the Confederacy : the memoir of Senator Williamson S. Oldham, CSA.
Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2006.

E472.23 W58 2006
Wilson's Creek, Pea Ridge, and Prairie Grove : a battlefield guide, with a section on Wire Road.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2006.

E473.68 S67 2006
Spruill, Matt.
Echoes of thunder : a guide to the Seven Days Battles.
Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2006.

E525 O39 2006
Ohio's war : the Civil War in documents.
Athens : Ohio University Press, c2006.

E540 I6 B78 2006
Bruce, Susannah Ural.
Harp and the eagle : Irish-American volunteers and the Union Army, 1861-1865.
New York : New York University Press, c2006.

E568 W96 2006
Wynne, Ben, 1961-
Mississippi's Civil War : a narrative history.
Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, c2006.

E581 C78 2006
Crucible of the Civil War : Virginia from secession to commemoration.
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2006.

E581.6 3rd H83 2007
Hubard, Robert Thruston, 1839-1921.
Civil War memoirs of a Virginia cavalryman.
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2007.

E607 V54 2007
View from the ground : experiences of Civil War soldiers.
Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2007.

E744 .A214 2006
Abelson, Donald E.
Capitol idea : think tanks and US foreign policy.
Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2006.

E748 A15 B45 2006
Beisner, Robert L.
Dean Acheson : a life in the Cold War.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

E813 D86 2006
Dunar, Andrew J.
America in the fifties.
Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2006.

E813 M57 2007
Miscamble, Wilson D., 1954-
From Roosevelt to Truman : Potsdam, Hiroshima, and the Cold War.
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

E840.6 K57 2007
Kisseloff, Jeff.
Generation on fire : voices of protest from the 1960s : an oral history.
Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2007.

E840.8 B76 A3 2007
Brooke, Edward William, 1919-
Bridging the divide : my life.
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2007.

E876 C635 2007
Collins, Robert M.
Transforming America : politics and culture in the Reagan years.
New York : Columbia University Press, c2007.

E877.2 E93 2006
Evans, Thomas W., 1930-
Education of Ronald Reagan : the General Electric years and the untold story of his conversion to conservatism.
New York : Columbia University Press, c2006.

E895 A45 2007
Anti-Americanisms in world politics.
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007.

F73.7 W54 J64 2006
Johnson, Violet Showers.
Other Black Bostonians : West Indians in Boston, 1900-1950.
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006.

F128.18 R42 2006
Reaven, Marci, 1954-
Hidden New York : a guide to places that matter.
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rivergate Books, an imprint of Rutgers University Press, c2006.

F128.54 D56 R53 2007
Rich, Wilbur C.
David Dinkins and New York City politics : race, images, and the media.
Albany : State University of New York Press, c2007.

F269 .S764 2006
South Carolina encyclopedia.
Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, c2006.

F334 M753 M677 2006
Stanton, Mary, 1946-
Journey toward justice : Juliette Hampton Morgan and the Montgomery bus boycott.
Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2006.

F349 N2 B75 2006
Brazy, Martha Jane, 1965-
American planter : Stephen Duncan of antebellum Natchez and New York.
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2006.

F394 W4 L68 2006
Lovett, O. Rufus, 1952-
Weeping Mary.
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006.

F572 O3 O57 2006
Oomen, Anne-Marie.
House of fields : memories of a rural education.
Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2006.

F574 A6 S47 2006
Shackman, Grace.
Ann Arbor observed : selections from Then & now.
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2006.

F596.2 S34 2006
Schlatter, Evelyn A.
Aryan cowboys : White supremacists and the search for a new frontier, 1970-2000.
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006.

F765 H65 2006
Holdsworth, Kevin.
Big wonderful : notes from Wyoming.
Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, c2006.

F802 E45 J33 2006
Jackson, Hal (Hal E.)
Following the Royal Road : a guide to the historic Camino Real de Tierra Adentro.
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2006.

F826 M87 M47 2006
Merrell, Kenneth W.
Scottish shepherd : the life and times of John Murray Murdoch, Utah pioneer.
Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, c2006.

F841 B593 2006
Bowers, Michael Wayne.
Sagebrush State : Nevada's history, government, and politics.
Reno : University of Nevada Press, c2006.

F869 L86 E24 2007
Hurewitz, Daniel.
Bohemian Los Angeles and the making of modern politics.
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.

F1090 .T47 2006
This wild spirit : women in the Rocky Mountains of Canada.
Edmonton : University of Alberta Press, c2006.

F1095.K5 H58 2005
Hitchcock, Mary E. (Mary Evelyn), 1849-1920.
Two women in the Klondike.
Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, c2005.

HT352.U6 B43 2006
Beauregard, Robert A.
When America became suburban.
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2006.

JK4716 .P37 2004
Parent, Wayne, 1955-
Inside the carnival : unmasking Louisiana politics.
Baton Rouge, La. : Louisiana State University Press, c2004.

PN4897.T43 C68 2005
Cox, Patrick, 1952-
First Texas news barons.
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2005.

PS3537.M16 Z85 2005
Price, Ruth, 1951-
Lives of Agnes Smedley.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

TR465 .S393453 2006
Scrapbook in American life.
Philadelphia, PA : Temple University Press, 2006.

Select Magazines/Newspapers

New witch.
Point Arena, CA : BBI Media.
Subject: Neopaganism--United States.

Ojai orange.
Ojai, Calif. : John Wilcock.
Subject: Fanzines.

Liberty watch.
Thousand Oaks, CA : Republican Liberty Caucus.
Subject: United States--Politics and government--1989-

Tenacious : writings from women in prison.
Brooklyn, NY : Black Star Pub.
Subject: Women prisoners--United States.

New York rat.
[New York? : s.n.]
Subject: Radicalism--New York (State)--New York.

Art for justice.
Washington, DC. : Prisons Foundation.
Subject: Prisoners as artists United States.

Kayra news.
Madison, WI : Kayra Group.
Subject: Widows—Wisconsin--Madison.
Subject: Widowers—Wisconsin--Madison.

AKA switchblades.
[Glendale, Ariz.?] : Automatic Knife Association.
Subject: Switchblade knives--Collectors and collecting.

Purple fantasia.
Green Lake, WI : EMarie Drews.
Subject: Fanzines—Wisconsin--Green Lake.

Iowa County history.
Dodgeville, WI : Iowa County Historical Society.
Subject: Iowa County (Wis.)--History.

Wisconsin Government Publications

WI Gov. Pub. LEG.3:S/A 44-U 85/2006
2005-06 session in review / Wisconsin Legislative Council.
Available on the Internet on Legislative Council web site, search by title: link

WI Gov. Pub. TRN.1/6:C 65/2030
Connections 2030 : Wisconsin's long-range transportation plan / Wisconsin Dept. of Transportation.
Available on the Internet: link

WI Gov. Pub. TRN.2:M 57/2006
Merrimac Ferry history / Wisconsin Dept. of Transportation.
Available on the Internet: link

WI Gov. Pub. LEG 2.6/2:P 76/2007
Profile of the 2007 Wisconsin Legislature : summary of personal date on members / Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau.
Available on the Internet: pdf

WI Gov. Pub. LEG 2.8:T 36/L 43/2006
Resources for legislators / Legislative Reference Bureau.
Available on the Internet: link

WI Gov. Pub. LEG.3:M 4/G 74/2006/1-11
Staff memorandum to members of the Special Committee on the Great Lakes Water Resources Compact / Wisconsin Legislative Council.
Available on the Internet: link

WI Gov. Pub LEG.3:M 4/F 35/2006/1-3
Staff memorandum to members of the Special Committee on Strengthening Wisconsin Families / Wisconsin Legislative Council.
Available on the Internet: link

WI Gov. Pub. ENE.1/2:G 37/1997-2005
Wisconsin gasohol and alternative fuel use report ... annual report. Dept. of Administration.

United States Government Publications

AE 1.102:W 19 /2
Researching Japanese War Crimes Introductory Essays / Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group, 2006.

D 110.2:H 62 /9 /2006
Security Assistance U.S. and International Historical Perspectives. Proceedings of the Combat Studies Institute 2006, Military History Symposium / Combat Studies Institute Press, 2006.

HH 14.2:AF 2 /V.1-2
Best Practices for Effecting the Rehabilitation of Affordable Housing, Volumes 1-2 / U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Policy Development and Research, 2005.

PREX 2.36:H 94 /2006
Oversight of Gulf Coast Hurricane Recovery a Semiannual Report to Congress April 1, 2006-September 30, 2006 / President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency, Executive Council on Integrity and Efficiency, 2006.

Y 3.P31:2 IR 1 /3
The Iraq Study Group Report, the Way Forward- a New Approach / Vintage Books, 2006.

Y 1.3:ST 7
200 Notable Days Senate Stories 1787 to 2002 / U.S. Government Printing Office, 2006

AE 2.114:2003 /1
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, George W. Bush, 2003, Book 1 / U.S. Government Printing Office, 2006.

Canadian Government Publications

CP32-88 /2-2006
A New Review Mechanism for the RCMP's National Security Activities / Commission of Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar, 2006.

XC 11-391 /1-1-01
Canada's International Policy Put to the Test in Haiti, Report of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development / House of Commons, 2006.

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