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Previous Recent Acquisitions

October 2008

Recent WHS Library Acquisitions

General Collection

BR516 R67 2008
Ross, Tara.
Under God : George Washington and the question of church and state.
Dallas, Tex. : Spence Pub. Co., 2008.

D731 D53 2008
Dickson, Keith D.
World War II almanac.
New York : Facts on File, c2008.

D731 D53 2008
Dickson, Keith D.
World War II almanac.
New York : Facts on File, c2008.

D810 F83 I79 2005
Irzyk, Albin F.
Gasoline to Patton: a different war.
Oakland : Elderberry Press, c2005.

D1065 U5 S36 2008
Scott-Smith, Giles, 1968-
Networks of empire : the US State Department's Foreign Leader Program in the Netherlands, France, and Britain 1950-1970.
Brussels : P.I.E. Peter Lang, c2008.

DS558 H47 2009
Hess, Gary R.
Vietnam : explaining America's lost war.
Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2009.

E91 H46 2008
Hendrix, Burke A.
Ownership, authority, and self-determination.
University Park, Pa.. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2008.

E98 C87 P46 2008
Perry, Barbara, 1962-
Silent victims : hate crimes against Native Americans.
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2008.

E99 N3 M367 2007
Denetdale, Jennifer.
Reclaiming DineL history : the legacies of Navajo Chief Manuelito and Juanita.
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2007.

E169.1 M597 2008
Michael, John, 1953-
Identity and the failure of America : from Thomas Jefferson to the War on Terror.
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2008.

E175 C485 2008
Cheng, Eileen K.
Plain and noble garb of truth : nationalism & impartiality in American historical writing, 1784-1860.
Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2008.

E181 W565 2008
When war becomes personal : soldiers' accounts from the Civil War to Iraq.
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2008.

E184 A1 R55 2008
Rivers, Patrick Lynn.
Governing hate and race in the United States and South Africa.
Albany : SUNY Press, c2008.

E184 A1 S563 2008
Sexton, Jared.
Amalgamation schemes : antiblackness and the critique of multiracialism.
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2008.

E184 B68 B42 2008
Becoming Brazuca : Brazilian immigration to the United States.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies : distributed by Harvard University Press, c2008.

E184 C5 C4743 2008
Chin, Woon Ping.
Hakka soul : memories, migrations, and meals.
Honolulu : Los Angeles : University of HawaiJ;i Press ; In association with UCLA Asian American Studies Center, c2008.

E184 C97 V53 2007
Vidal, Guillermo Vincente.
Boxing for Cuba : an immigrant's story of despair, endurance & redemption.
Denver, Colo. : Ghost Road Press, c2007.

E184.355 S25 2007
Sanua, Marianne Rachel.
Let us prove strong : the American Jewish Committee, 1945-2006.
Waltham, Mass. : Hanover : Brandeis University Press ; Published by University Press of New England, c2007.

E185.18 A45 2008
Ali, Omar H. (Omar Hamid)
In the balance of power : independent Black politics and third-party movements in the United States.
Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, c2008.

E185.5 N33 R44 2008
Reed, ToureL F.
Not alms but opportunity : the Urban League & the politics of racial uplift, 1910-1950.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008.

E185.61 H82 2008
Horne, Gerald.
End of empires : African Americans and India.
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2008.

E185.8 B18 2008
Bandele, Ramla M., 1949-
Black star : African American activism in the international political economy.
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2008.

E207 S79 L3 2007
La Bree, Clifton, 1933-
New Hampshire's General John Stark : live free or die: death is not the worst of evils.
Portsmouth, N.H. : Peter E. Randall, 2007.

E207 S8 L63 2008
Lockhart, Paul Douglas, 1963-
Drillmaster of Valley Forge : the Baron de Steuben and the making of the American Army.
[Washington, D.C.] : New York, NY : Smithsonian Books ; Collins, c2008.

E312.3 K34 2008
Kahler, Gerald E.
Long farewell : Americans mourn the death of George Washington.
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2008.

E332.74 G67 2008
Gordon-Reed, Annette.
Hemingses of Monticello : an American family.
New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Co., 2008.

E449 G25 W55 2008
William Lloyd Garrison at two hundred : history, legacy, and memory.
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.

E467.1 T4 E38 2007
Einolf, Christopher J., 1969-
George Thomas : Virginian for the Union.
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2007.

E470 R45 2008
Reid, Brian Holden.
America's Civil War : the operational battlefield, 1861-1863.
Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2008.

E470.45 F4 M39 2008
Mays, Thomas D., 1960-
Cumberland blood : Champ Ferguson's Civil War.
Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2008.

E746 R53 S74 2008
Steely, Skipper.
Pearl Harbor countdown : Admiral James O. Richardson.
Gretna, La. : Pelican Pub. Co., 2008.

E748 W425 P75 2008
Pritchett, Wendell E.
Robert Clifton Weaver and the American city : the life and times of an urban reformer.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

E767.1 M39 2008
Maynard, W. Barksdale (William Barksdale)
Woodrow Wilson : Princeton to the presidency.
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.

E807 S55 2008
Sloan, John W., 1940-
FDR and Reagan : transformative presidents with clashing visions.
Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2008.

E838.5 K535 2008
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968.
Gospel according to RFK : why it matters now.
New York : Basic Books, 2008.

E840.8 M528 A3 2008
Miller, Joseph S. (Joseph Spencer), 1922-
Wicked wine of democracy : a memoir of a political junkie, 1948-1995.
Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2008.

E856 F75 2008
Frick, Daniel E.
Reinventing Richard Nixon : a cultural history of an American obsession.
Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, 2008.

E901.1 O23 C67 2008
Corsi, Jerome R.
Obama nation : leftist politics and the cult of personality.
New York : Threshold Editions/Simon & Schuster, 2008.

F128.9 J5 S975 2008
Kessner, Carole S., 1932-
Marie Syrkin : values beyond the self.
Waltham, Mass. : Hanover [N.H.] : Brandeis University Press ; published by University Press of New England, c2008.

F220 J5 J46 2006
Jewish roots in southern soil : a new history.
Waltham, Mass. : Hanover : Brandeis University Press ; Published by University Press of New England, c2006.

F379 N553 M559 2007
Wilson, Carol, 1962-
Two lives of Sally Miller : a case of mistaken racial identity in antebellum New Orleans.
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2007.

F454 B66 B77 2008
Brown, Meredith Mason, 1940-
Frontiersman : Daniel Boone and the making of America.
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2008.

F457 O2 H37 2000z
Harp, Beth Chinn.
Torn asunder : Civil War in Ohio County and the Green River country.
[Kentucky?] : B.C. Harp, [200-]

F591 I36 2008
Icons of the American West : from cowgirls to Silicon Valley.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2008. 2 vols.

F592.7 T834 2008
Tubbs, Stephenie Ambrose.
Why Sacagawea deserves the day off & other lessons from the Lewis and Clark Trail.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.

F621 W183 A3 2008
Wallace, Henry, 1836-1916.
Uncle Henry Wallace : letters to farm families.
West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, c2008.

F799 N475 2008
New Mexico in 1801 : the priests report.
Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, N.M. : Rio Grande Books, 2008.

F826 D74 2008
Dreams, myths, and reality : Utah and the American West : the Critchlow lectures at Weber State University.
Salt Lake City : Signature Books, 2008.

F1053 R42 2008
Reid, Philippe.
Regard de l'autre : la naissance du nationalisme au QueL bec : essai.
QueL bec : Instant meL me, 2008.

F1053.2 S58 2007
Simard, Marc, 1952-
EL teignoirs.
MontreL al : EL ditions Voix paralleL 2007.

GV585.3 S3 S27 2007
Saskatchewan sports : lives past and present.
Regina : University of Regina, Canadian Plains Research Center, 2007.

GV884 T38 A36 2006
Aamidor, Abraham.
Chuck Taylor, Converse all star : the true story of the man behind the most famous athletic shoe in history.
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006.

GV956 G7 Z563 2008
Zimmerman, David.
Lambeau legends : Packer profiles of courage.
Hales Corners, WI : Eagle Books, c2008.

HC107 A13 R38 2006
Reading southern poverty between the wars, 1918-1939.
Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2006.

HV6432 M383 2008
Mayer, Jane.
Dark side : the inside story of how the war on terror turned into a war on American ideals.
New York : Doubleday, c2008.

JK468.I6 B89 2008
Burton, Fred.
Ghost : confessions of a counterterrorism agent.
New York : Random House, c2008.

JN6529 I6 M45 2008
Meier, Andrew.
Lost spy : an American in Stalin's secret service.
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2008.

QH76.5 N47 J37 2007
Jarvis, Kimberly A.
Franconia Notch and the women who saved it.
Durham, N.H. : Hanover : University of New Hampshire Press ; Published by University Press of New England, c2007.

S451 V8 N45 2007
Nelson, Lynn A., 1967-
Pharsalia : an environmental biography of a southern plantation, 1780-1880.
Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2007.

VA70 T53 L56 2005
Linder, Bruce, 1949-
Tidewater's navy : an illustrated history.
Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, c2005.

Z5313 U5 D65 2008
Dollarhide, William.
Census substitutes & state census records : an annotated bibliography of published name lists for all 50 U.S. states and state censuses for 37 states. 2 vols.
Bountiful, Utah : Family Roots Pub. Co., c2008.

Select Magazines/Newspapers

West River eagle.
Eagle Butte, SD : Missouri Dakota Pub. Inc.

On target.
[Ottawa] : National Defence = Defense nationale.

Journal of Moravian history.
Bethlehem, PA : Moravian Archives and the Moravian Historical Society.

Wisconsin Government Publications

WI Gov. Pub ADM.2:H 43/2008
Comprehensive Heating Plant Study, Madison, Wisconsin / Wisconsin Dept. of Administration and University of Wisconsin.
Available on the Internet: link

WI Gov. Pub. HIG.2:B 74/18/2008
Feasibility of Rehabilitating Timber Bridges with Mechanically Fastened FRP Strips / Midwest Regional University Transportation Center.
Available on the Internet: pdf

WI Gov. Pub LEG 2.3:B/2008/9
Privacy Laws in Wisconsin / Legislative Reference Bureau.
Available on the Internet:

WI Gov. Pub. LEG.3:IM:2008/9
Recommendations of the Governor's Task Force on Global Warming / Wisconsin Legislative Council.
Available on the Internet: pdf

WI Gov. Pub. LEG.1:2007/20
Special Committee on Great Lakes Water Resources Compact / Wisconsin Legislative Council.

WI Gov. Pub AGR.2:A 87/3/2008
Final Report on DATCP Evaluation of Renewed Use of Atrazine in Atrazine Prohibition Areas / Wisconsin Dept. of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection.
Only available on the Internet: pdf

WI Gov. Pub. AGR.2:S 78/2000
Regulatory Options for the Commercial Rearing of Lake Sturgeon : Report to the Legislature / Dept. of Agriculture, Trade & Consumer Protection.
Only available on the Internet: pdf

WI Gov. Pub ELC.4:U 63/1-
Election Update (Madison, Wis.) / Wisconsin Government Accountability Board.
Only available on the Internet: link

WI Gov. Pub GO GLO.1:2008/2
Wisconsin's Strategy for Reducing Global Warming : final report to Governor Jim Doyle / Dept. of Natural Resources : Public Service Commission.
Only available on the Internet: pdf

United States Government Publications

Y 10.2:N 88/4
A CBO Study Nuclear Power's Role in Generating Electricity / Congressional Budget Office, 2008.

D 114.7/3:J 66/2
The United States Army in Vietnam, MACV The Joint Command in the Years of Escalation 1962-1967 / Center for Military History, 2006.

D 221.2:C 88
The World Cruise of the Great White Fleet Honoring 100 Years of Global Partnerships and Security / Naval Historical Center, Department of the Navy, 2008.

Y 3.2:In 3/EL 2
Report of the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack, Critical National Infrastructures / Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack, 2008.

D 301.2:H 62/25
Lightning Rod a History of the Air Force Chief Scientist's Office / Chief Scientist's Office United States Air Force, 2000.

D 301.2:SO 8/2
Sovereign Skies Air National Guard Takes Command of 1st Air Force / Air National Guard, 1999.

Canadian Government Publications

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