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Previous Recent Acquisitions

August 2009

Recent WHS Library Acquisitions

General Collection

BL2525 W44 2008
Westminster handbook to women in American religious history.
Louisville, Ky. : Westminster John Knox Press, c2008.

BR115 C8 P653 2007
Pointer, Richard W., 1955-
Encounters of the spirit : Native Americans and European colonial religion.
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2007.

BR1644.5 U6 S74 2008
Stephens, Randall J., 1973-
Fire spreads : holiness and Pentecostalism in the American South.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.

BV2625 K53 2009
Kidd, Thomas S.
American Christians and Islam : evangelical culture and Muslims from the colonial period to the age of terrorism.
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2009.

BV4593 B78 2008
Bruno, Robert Anthony.
Justified by work : identity and the meaning of faith in Chicago's working-class churches.
Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2008.

BX1406.3 H46 2008
Henold, Mary J., 1974-
Catholic and feminist : the surprising history of the American Catholic feminist movement.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008.

BX1407 C83 P69 2007
Poyo, Gerald Eugene, 1950-
Cuban Catholics in the United States, 1960-1980 : exile and integration.
Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2007.

BX1418 S23 A94 2008
Avella, Steven M.
Sacramento and the Catholic church : shaping a capital city.
Reno : University of Nevada Press, c2008.

BX6248 V8 S38 2008
Scully, Randolph Ferguson, 1970-
Religion and the making of Nat Turner's Virginia : Baptist community and conflict, 1740-1840.
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2008.

D570.33 369th N456 2009
Nelson, Peter, 1953-
More unbending battle : the Harlem Hellfighters' struggle for freedom in WWI and equality at home.
New York : Basic Civitas, c2009.

D619 T86 2007
Tucker, Robert W.
Woodrow Wilson and the Great War : reconsidering America's neutrality, 1914-1917.
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2007.

D632 Z33 2008
Zacher, Dale E.
Scripps newspapers go to war, 1914-18.
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2008.

D769.348 506th B76 2009
Brotherton, Marcus.
We who are alive and remain : untold stories from the band of brothers.
New York : Berkley Caliber/Penguin Group, 2009.

DS79.76 B445 2009
Benedict, Helen.
Lonely soldier : the private war of women serving in Iraq.
Boston : Beacon Press, C2009.

DS79.76 L427 2009
LeBleu, Joe.
Long rifle : one man's deadly sniper missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press, c2009.

DS558 P743 2009
Prados, John.
Vietnam : the history of an unwinnable war, 1945-1975.
Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2009.

E76.45 D45 M356 2008
Mainfort, Robert C., 1948-
Sam Dellinger : raiders of the lost Arkansas.
Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2008.

E83.86 T736 2008
Trails of tears : Minnesota's Dakota Indian exile begins.
Roseville, Minn. : Prairie Echoes, Park Genealogical Books, c2008.

E98 A73 M37 2009
McLerran, Jennifer.
New Deal for Native art : Indian arts and federal policy, 1933-1943.
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2009.

E99 A6 A5956 2009
McKanna, Clare V. (Clare Vernon), 1935-
Court-martial of Apache Kid : the renegade of renegades.
Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech University Press, c2009.

E99 T34 S697 2009
St. Germain, Jill, 1962-
Broken treaties : United States and Canadian relations with the Lakotas and the Plains Cree, 1868-1885.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2009.

E169.1 S2415 2009
Samuel, Lawrence R.
Future : a recent history.
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2009.

E175.5 Z56 Z56 2009
Zinn, Howard, 1922-
Uncommon sense from the writings of Howard Zinn.
Boulder : Paradigm Publishers, c2009.

E183.8 S65 D385 2009
Davis, Donald E.
Distorted mirrors : Americans and their relations with Russia and China in the twentieth century.
Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2009.

E184 A1 Z47 2009
Zeskind, Leonard.
Blood and politics : the history of the white nationalist movement from the margins to the mainstream.
New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2009.

E184 A75 T736 2009
Transnational politics of Asian Americans.
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2009.

E185 D623 2009
Dodson, Howard.
Becoming American : the African-American journey.
New York : Sterling Pub. Co., c2009.

E185 N65 2008
Noll, Mark A., 1946-
God and race in American politics : a short history.
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008.

E185.61 A2393 2009
African American urban history since World War II.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

E185.61 C6167 2009
Civil rights movement : people and perspectives.
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2009.

E185.61 D54 2008
Dierenfield, Bruce J., 1951-
Civil rights movement.
Harlow, England ; New York : Pearson Longman, 2008.

E185.625 P69 2009
Price, Melanye T.
Dreaming blackness : black nationalism and African American public opinion.
New York : New York University Press, c2009.

E185.97 K47 M387 2009
McCarty, Laura T.
Coretta Scott King : a biography.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2009.

E302.1 B73 2009
Bradburn, Douglas., 1972-
Citizenship revolution : politics and the creation of the American union, 1774-1804.
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009.

E332.2 C534 2009
Clagett, Martin Richard.
Scientific Jefferson revealed.
Charlottesville, Va. : Distributed by the University of Virginia Press, c2009

E340 M16 W37 2009
Warren, Leonard, 1924-
Maclure of New Harmony : scientist, progressive educator, radical philanthropist.
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2009.

E474.77 S68 2007
Spruill, Matt.
Winter lightning : a guide to the Battle of Stones River.
Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 2007.

E601 B14 2009
Bacon, Edward W. (Edward Woolsey), 1843-1887.
Double duty in the Civil War : the letters of sailor and soldier Edward W. Bacon.
Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2009.

E609 B85 2009
Bulla, David W., 1959-
Lincoln's censor : Milo Hascall and freedom of the press in Civil War Indiana.
West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, c2009.

E748 G695 A3 2009
Gottfried, Paul.
Encounters : my life with Nixon, Marcuse, and other friends and teachers.
Wilmington, Del. : ISI Books, c2009.

E784 E53 2007
Encyclopedia of the Jazz Age : from the end of World War I to the great crash.
Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2008. 2 v.

E837.7 C38 2009
Casey, Shaun.
Making of a Catholic president : Kennedy vs. Nixon 1960.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

E840.8 M332 D93 2009
Dyche, John David.
Republican leader : a political biography of Senator Mitch McConnell.
Wilmington, Del. : ISI Books, c2009.

F157 D4 D67 2008
Dorwart, Jeffery M., 1944-
Invasion and insurrection : security, defense, and war in the Delaware Valley, 1621-1815.
Newark, [Del.] : University of Delaware Press, c2008.

F294 A853 R53 2009
Richards, Samuel P.
Sam Richards's Civil War diary : a chronicle of the Atlanta home front.
Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2009.

F497 B7 F33 2008
Faber, Don, 1939-
Toledo War : the first Michigan-Ohio rivalry.
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2008.

F592 C263 M335 2009
MacCulloch, Patrick C., 1928-
Campbell quest : a saga of family and fortune.
St. Louis : Missouri History Museum : Distributed by University of Missouri Press, c2009.

F594 C945 2008
Cummings, Amos J. (Amos Jay), 1841-1902.
Remarkable curiosity : dispatches from a New York City journalist's 1873 railroad trip across the American West.
Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, c2008.

F776 R74 2009
Root, Robert L.
Following Isabella : travels in Colorado then and now.
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2009.

F790 J5 S56 2009
Simms, Norman Toby.
Marranos on the Moradas : secret Jews and Penitentes in the southwestern United States, from 1590 to 1890.
Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2009.

F869 S22 C47 2007
Chicano San Diego : cultural space and the struggle for justice.
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2007.

F880 S925 1995
Stuart, Robert, 1785-1848.
Discovery of the Oregon Trail : Robert Stuart's narratives of his overland trip eastward from Astoria in 1812-13.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1995.

F907 A85 2008
Atiyah, Jeremy.
Great land : how western America nearly became a Russian possession.
Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Parker Press, c2008.

F1030 S529 2008
Skinner, Claiborne A.
Upper Country : French enterprise in the colonial Great Lakes.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.

G585 B8 R68 2008
Rose, Lisle Abbott, 1936-
Explorer : the life of Richard E. Byrd.
Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2008.

GV706.35 Z57 2007
Zirin, Dave.
Welcome to the Terrordome : the pain, politics, and promise of sports.
Chicago, Ill. : Haymarket Books, 2007.

GV865 W438 L85 2007
Luke, Bob.
Willie Wells : "El Diablo" of the Negro Leagues.
Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2007.

HC106.5 W55 2009
Wilson, Gregory S.
Communities left behind : the Area Redevelopment Administration, 1945-1965.
Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2009.

HC108 S797 E35 2008
Eelman, Bruce W., 1967-
Entrepreneurs in the southern upcountry : commercial culture in Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1845-1880.
Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2008.

HD8083 A6 B466 2009
Benton-Cohen, Katherine.
Borderline Americans : racial division and labor war in the Arizona borderlands.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.

HD8083 G4 L67 2009
Lorence, James J.
Unemployed people's movement : leftists, liberals, and labor in Georgia, 1929-1941.
Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2009.

HE2771 A13 M37 2009
Marrs, Aaron W., 1976-
Railroads in the Old South : pursuing progress in a slave society.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.

HG172 S63 S58 2009
Slater, Robert, 1943-
Soros : the world's most influential investor.
New York : McGraw Hill, c2009.

HN57 B655 2009
Brooks, Victor.
Boomers : the Cold-War generation grows up.
Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2009.

HN79 A13 S36 2008
Old South : new studies of society and culture.
New York : Routledge, 2008.

HQ1058.5 U5 C657 2009
Conger, Vivian Bruce.
Widows' might : widowhood and gender in early British America.
New York : New York University Press, c2009.

HS883 W33 2008
Walker, Corey D. B.
Noble fight : African American freemasonry and the struggle for democracy in America.
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2008.

HV28 A35 A24 2003
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935.
Selected papers of Jane Addams. edited by Mary Lynn McCree Bryan, Barbara Bair, and Maree de Angury.
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2003-

HV6785 S36 2009b
Schneider, Paul, 1962-
Bonnie and Clyde : the lives behind the legend.
New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2009.

JC211 W37 M67 2009
Morrison, Jeffry H., 1961-
Political philosophy of George Washington.
Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2009.

JK31 S73 2009
Stathis, Stephen W.
Landmark debates in Congress : from the Declaration of independence to the war in Iraq.
Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2009.

JK2316 B45 2008
Bensel, Richard Franklin, 1949-
Passion and preferences : William Jennings Bryan and the 1896 Democratic National Convention.
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

JK2356 G53 2009
Gifford, Laura Jane.
Center cannot hold : the 1960 presidential election and the rise of modern conservatism.
DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, c2009.

NA9127 C4 P63 2009
Plan of Chicago @ 100 : 15 views of Burnham's legacy for a new century.
Wheaton, IL : Lambda Alpha International, Ely-Chicago, c2009.

PN4874 H62 G45 2008
Ghiglione, Loren.
CBS's Don Hollenbeck : an honest reporter in the age of McCarthyism.
New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.

TL867 M3625 2009
McDonald, Allan J.
Truth, lies, and O-rings : inside the space shuttle Challenger disaster.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2009.

TR659.8 A76 2009
Arndt, Thomas Frederick, 1944-
Home : Tom Arndt's Minnesota.
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2009.

Select Magazines/Newspapers

Georgia settlers.
Winder, Ga. : East Georgia Genealogical Society.
Subject: Georgia--Genealogy.

Mindful metropolis.
Chicago, IL : Mindful Metropolis, Inc.
Subject: Green movement.

Journal.
Ventura, CA : Ventura County Genealogical Society.
Subject: Ventura County (Calif.)--Genealogy.

Trading path.
Chapel Hill, N.C. : Durham-Orange Genealogical Society,
Subject: North Carolina--Genealogy.

Wisconsin Government Publications

WI Gov. Pub WI-M 1 COM.1/2:H 65/2000-2007
Annual Report on the Homeless Served in Dane County / City of Madison, Community Development Block Grant Office.
Also available on the Internet, link to latest ed. below: pdf

WI Gov. Pub AGR.1/2:D 37/2005-2009
Value Added Dairy Initiative Annual Report / Wisconsin Dept. of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection.
Also available on the Internet: link

WI Gov. Pub WEL.1/2:F 36/2007-2008
Long-Term Care in Motion: Annual Report of Wisconsin's Managed Long-Term Care Programs / Wisconsin Office of Family Care Expansion.
Available on the Internet, search under annual report: link

WI Gov. Pub COU.6/2:V 53/2007
Bridging the Distance: Implementing Videoconferencing in Wisconsin / prepared by the Supreme Court Planning & Policy Advisory Committee Videoconferencing Subcommittee.
Available on the Internet: pdf

WI Gov. Pub DEF 3.6/2:D 5/2007
State of Wisconsin Guidelines for Assessing and Documenting Disaster Damage / Wisconsin Emergency Government.
Available on the Internet: link

United States Government Publications

D 110.2:L 49/2
Back to Basics a Study of the Second Lebanon War and Operation CAST LEAD /
Combat Studies Institute Press, 2009.

I 29.74:AM 3
American Place the Historic American Buildings Survey at Seventy-five Years /
U.S. Department of Interior Museum, 2009.

Canadian Government Publications

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