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Previous Recent Acquisitions

November 2008

Recent WHS Library Acquisitions

General Collection

BM755 C6 C645 2007
Cohen, Henry, 1927-
Kindler of souls : Rabbi Henry Cohen of Texas.
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007.

CJ1834 A94 2008
Augsburger, Leonard.
Treasure in the cellar : a tale of gold in Depression-era Baltimore.
Baltimore, MD : Maryland Historical Society, 2008.

CT275.F35 F35 2006
Fairchild, W. Bruce.
Thomas Fairchild : puritan merchant & magistrate : the life & times of an American colonizer & patriarch (c. 1610-1670).
New York : iUniverse, c2006.

D790.254 Y35 2008
Y'Blood, William T., 1937-
Air commandos against Japan : Allied special operations in World War II Burma.
Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, c2008.

D810 V42 U65 2005
Gambone, Michael D., 1963-
Greatest generation comes home : the veteran in American society.
College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2005.

DP269.8 P8 F34 2007
Facing fascism : New York and the Spanish Civil War.
New York : Museum of the City of New York : NYU Press, c2007.

DS558.7 .S76 2008
Stoffey, Robert E., 1934-
Fighting to leave : the final years of America's War in Vietnam, 1972-1973.
Minneapolis, MN : MBI Pub., 2008.

DS558.8 .S27 2008
Samuel, Wolfgang W. E.
Glory days : the untold story of the men who flew the B-66 destroyer into the face of fear.
Atglen, PA : Schiffer Pub., c2008.

E56 N36 2008
National Museum of the American Indian : critical conversations.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.

E78 C15 E72 2008
Erlandson, Jon.
Canyon through time : archaeology, history, and ecology of the Tecolote Canyon area, Santa Barbara County, California.
Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, c2008.

E83.866 C66 2007
Colwell-Chanthaphonh, Chip (John Stephen), 1975-
Massacre at Camp Grant : forgetting and remembering Apache history.
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2007.

E99 C5 C7164 2008
Conley, Robert J.
Cherokee thoughts, honest and uncensored.
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2008.

E99 D1 I357 2008
Beck, Paul Norman, 1958-
Inkpaduta : Dakota leader.
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2008.

E99 E7 T837 2007
Wilder, Edna, 1916-
Eskimo girl and the Englishman.
Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, c2007.

E99 I7 H35 2008
Hauptman, Laurence M.
Seven generations of Iroquois leadership : the Six Nations since 1800.
Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2008.

E99 T34 A63 2008
Andersson, Rani-Henrik.
Lakota ghost dance of 1890.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.

E99 W7 W34 2008
Waggoner, Linda M.
Fire light : the life of Angel De Cora, Winnebago artist.
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2008.

E169.1 H225 2008
Halton, Eugene.
Great brain suck : and other American epiphanies.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

E175.5 S5 H86 2008
Humphreys, James Scott, 1963-
Francis Butler Simkins : a life.
Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, c2008.

E183 V36 2008
Van Meter, Jan R.
Tippecanoe and Tyler too : famous slogans and catchphrases in American history.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

E183.7 K343 2008
Kane, John, 1945 Apr. 18-
Between virtue and power : the persistent moral dilemma of U.S. foreign policy.
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.

E183.8 S7 T54 2007
Tierney, Dominic, 1977-
FDR and the Spanish Civil War : neutrality and commitment in the struggle that divided America.
Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.

E184 S75 D3553 2008
DaL vila, Arlene M., 1965-
Latino spin : public image and the whitewashing of race.
New York : New York University Press, c2008.

E184 W4 L49 2008
Lewis, Ronald L., 1940-
Welsh Americans : a history of assimilation in the coalfields.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008.

E185.6 A23 2007
Adams, Jessica, 1970-
Wounds of returning : race, memory, and property on the postslavery plantation.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007.

E185.86 B6975 2006
Brown, Nikki.
Private politics and public voices : Black women's activism from World War I to the New Deal.
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006.

E185.97 S6 B55 2007
Billingsley, Andrew.
Yearning to breathe free : Robert Smalls of South Carolina and his families.
Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, c2007.

E302.6 H5 H38 2008
Hayes, Kevin J.
Mind of a patriot : Patrick Henry and the world of ideas.
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2008.

E312.17 T466 2008
Thompson, Mary V., 1955-
"In the hands of a good providence" : religion in the life of George Washington.
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2008.

E450 W727 B73 2007
Brandt, Nat.
In the shadow of the Civil War : Passmore Williamson and the rescue of Jane Johnson.
Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, c2007.

E453 R84 2008
Rugemer, Edward Bartlett, 1971-
Problem of emancipation : the Caribbean roots of the American Civil War.
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2008.

E457.2 S94 2008
Symonds, Craig L.
Lincoln and his admirals : Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. Navy, and the Civil War.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

E457.2 S96 2008
Szasz, Ferenc Morton, 1940-
Abraham Lincoln and Robert Burns : connected lives and legends.
Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2008.

E457.4 L7754 2008
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Lincoln-Douglas debates.
Urbana : Knox College Lincoln Studies Center : University of Illinois Press, c2008.

E467.1 B46 C37 2008
Cashin, Edward J., 1927-
Confederate legend : Sergeant Berry Benson in war and peace.
Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, c2008.

E581.6 2nd P37 2008
Parker, Robert W., 1838-1865.
Lee's last casualty : the life and letters of Sgt. Robert W. Parker, Second Virginia Cavalry.
Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2008.

E591 G35 2008
Gaines, W. Craig, 1953-
Encyclopedia of Civil War shipwrecks.
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2008.

E615 G55 2008
Gillispie, James M., 1969-
Andersonvilles of the North : the myths and realities of Northern treatment of Civil War Confederate prisoners.
Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, c2008.

E664 W612 R64 2007
Rogers, William Warren, 1955-
Scalawag in Georgia : Richard Whiteley and the politics of Reconstruction.
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2007.

E840.8 P79 A3 2008
Pryor, David, 1934-
Pryor commitment : the autobiography of David Pryor.
Little Rock : Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, 2008.

F29 L63 R53 2008
Richard, Mark Paul, 1960-
Loyal but French : the negotiation of identity by French-Canadian descendants in the United States.
East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2008.

F128.68 Q4 C67 2007
Copquin, Claudia Gryvatz, 1961-
Neighborhoods of Queens.
New York : New Haven : Citizens Committee for New York City ; Yale University Press, c2007.

F153 B75 2007
Bouton, Terry.
Taming democracy : "the people," the founders, and the troubled ending of the American Revolution.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

F158.5 W65 2007
Wolfinger, James.
Philadelphia divided : race & politics in the City of Brotherly Love.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007.

F275.42 Z45 A3 2008
Zeigler, Eugene N.
When conscience and power meet : a memoir.
Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, c2008.

F277 W39 M66 2007
Moore, Peter N., 1961-
World of toil and strife : community transformation in backcountry South Carolina, 1750-1805.
Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, c2007.

F379 F665 M395 2007
Mayeux, Steven M., 1950-
Earthen walls, iron men : Fort DeRussy, Louisiana, and the defense of Red River.
Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2007.

F392 B84 N485 2007
Nevels, Cynthia Skove, 1955-
Lynching to belong : claiming Whiteness through racial violence.
College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2007.

F474 S253 A245 2008
Hoig, Stan.
Chouteaus : first family of the fur trade.
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2008.

F574 D453 J64 2008
Johnson, Arthur L., 1925-
Race and remembrance : a memoir.
Detroit, Mich. : Wayne State University Press, 2008.

F685 L268 S68 2008
Spurgeon, Ian Michael, 1976-
Man of Douglas, man of Lincoln : the political odyssey of James Henry Lane.
Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2008.

F866.4 H42 G73 2008
Graebner, William.
Patty's got a gun : Patricia Hearst in 1970s America.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

F912 G36 B76 2007
Brown, William E. (William Edward), 1930-
History of the central Brooks Range : gaunt beauty, tenuous life.
Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, c2007.

F1026 .I44 2007
Illustrated history of Canada.
Toronto : Key Porter Books, c2007.

G155 U6 M337 2007
Martin, C. Brenden.
Tourism in the mountain South : a double-edged sword.
Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2007.

G608 P68 2007
Potter, Russell A., 1960-
Arctic spectacles : the frozen North in visual culture, 1818-1875.
Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2007.

GV865 M215 M33 2007
Macht, Norman L. (Norman Lee), 1929-
Connie Mack and the early years of baseball.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2007.

HD1251 S54 2007
Sheridan, Thomas E.
Landscapes of fraud : Mission TumacaL cori, the Baca Float, and the betrayal of the O'odham.
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2007, c2006.

HD3885 L45 2007
Leighninger, Robert D., 1941-
Long-range public investment : the forgotten legacy of the New Deal.
Colombia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, c2007.

HD3890 L8 L45 2007
Leighninger, Robert D., 1941-
Building Louisiana : the legacy of the Public Works Administration.
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2007.

HD5326 W2 J64 2008
Johnson, Victoria L. (Victoria Lee)
How many machine guns does it take to cook one meal? : the Seattle and San Francisco general strikes.
Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2008.

HD8039 T162 U636 2007
Hodges, Graham Russell, 1946-
Taxi! : a social history of the New York City cabdriver.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.

HD9547 P4 C77 2002
CurraL , Thomas M., 1960-
Stories from the mines.
Scranton, Pa. : University of Scranton Press, 2002.

HE396 O33 W66 2008
Woods, Terry K., 1937-
Ohio's grand canal : a brief history of the Ohio & Erie Canal.
Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, c2008.

HX83 A55 2007
Amis, B. D., b. 1896.
B.D. Amis, African American radical : a short anthology of writings and speeches.
Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2007.

NC242 W53 S56 2007
Sloan, Kim.
New world : England's first view of America.
Chapel Hill, N.C. : The University of North Carolina Press, 2007.

PN4874 B3694 A3 2007
Bell, Edward Price, 1869-1943.
Journalism of the highest realm : the memoir of Edward Price Bell, pioneering foreign correspondent for the Chicago daily news.
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2007.

TN140 O54 O54 2007
O'Neill, Patrick (Patrick H.), 1915-
From snowshoes to wingtips : the life of Patrick O'Neill.
Fairbanks : University of Alaska Foundation, c2007.

U52 A77 2008
Art of command : military leadership from George Washington to Colin Powell.
Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2008.

Z1223.Z7 A574
Guide to U.S. Government publications.
McLean, Va., Documents Index.

Select Magazines/Newspapers

Herald-advocate.
Iola, WI : Journal Community Pub. Group.
Subject: Iola (Wis.)

Wisconsin outdoors.
Waupaca, WI : Journal Community Pub. Group.
Subject: Outdoor recreation Wisconsin..

American profile.
Franklin, Tenn. : Pub. Group of America.
Subject: Middle West.

Wisconsin Government Publications

WI Gov. Pub NAT.9/2:R 86/2007
Clean Water Fund Program : Urban Runoff Project Financing/ Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources.

WI Gov. Pub HE.4:P 36/2008-
Pandemic Preparedness Update / Wisconsin Division of Public Health.
Available on the Internet: link

WI Gov. Pub. WAT 3.1:2008
Report to the Legislature / Wisconsin Groundwater Coordinating Council.
Available on the Internet: link

WI Gov. Pub NAT.1/6:W 47/2008
Reversing the Loss : A Strategy to Protect, Restore and Explore Wisconsin Wetlands / Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources.
Also available on the Internet: link

WI Gov. Pub. NAT.9/2:W 3/12/2007
Safe Drinking Water Loan Program : Drinking Water Project Financing/ Dept. of Natural Resources.

WI Gov. Pub. LEG 2.8:T 36/E 64/2/2008
State Energy Policy (Tap the Power) / Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau.
Also available on the Internet: link

WI Gov. Pub. SER.2:W 3/3/2008
Survey of Water Conservation and Efficiency Efforts / Public Service Commission of Wisconsin.
Available on the Internet: pdf

WI Gov. Pub. AUD 2.1/2:S 36/M 6/2008
Test Score Data for Pupils in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program/ Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau.
Available on the Internet: pdf

WI Gov. Pub AUD 2.1/2:T 78/2008
Truancy Reduction Efforts : Best Practices Review / Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau.
Available on the Internet: pdf

United States Government Publications

D 208.202: As 4
Asia Eyes America : Regional Perspectives on U.S. Asia-Pacific Strategy in the Twentieth-first Century / Naval War College Press, 2007.

D 1.2:SCO 8
Scouts Out! : The Development of Reconnaissance Units in Modern Armies / Combat Studies Institute Press, 2008.

D 110.2:OP 2/2
The United States Army in Operation IRAQI FREEDOM May 2003-January 2005, On Point II: Transition to the New Campaign / Combat Studies Institute Press, 2008.

D 101.2:C 11/2/2006
History of the U.S. Army Cadet Command : Second Ten Years, 1996-2006 /
Cadet Command, U.S. Army, 2008.

D 301.2:N 81/2
Guarding What You Value Most : North American Aerospace Defense Command Celebrating 50 Years / NORAD Headquarters, Peterson Air Force Base, 2008.

Canadian Government Publications

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