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Previous Recent Acquisitions

September 2009

Recent WHS Library Acquisitions

General Collection

BX7748 R3 M38 2009
McDaniel, Donna, 1934-
Fit for freedom, not for friendship : Quakers, African Americans, and the myth of racial justice.
Philadelphia, Pa. : Quaker Press of Friends General Conference, c2009.

BX8382 A15 D38 2008
Davis, Morris L. (Morris Lee), 1969-
Methodist unification : Christianity and the politics of race in the Jim Crow era.
New York : New York University Press, c2008.

CT310 B46 A3 2009
Benhabib, Djemila, 1972-
Ma vie à contre-Coran.
Montréal : VLB éditeur, 2009.

D810 S7 D57 2009
Dingman, Roger.
Deciphering the rising sun : Navy and Marine Corps codebreakers, translators, and interpreters in the Pacific war.
Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, c2009.

DS79.76 K33 2009
Kagan, Kimberly, 1972-
Surge : a military history.
New York : Encounter Books, 2009.

DS558 V565 2009
Vietnam War era : people and perspectives.
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2009.

DS559.5 M4185 2009
McLean, Jack, 1947-
Loon : a Marine story.
New York : Ballantine Books, 2009.

E98 C87 P44 2009
Perry, Barbara, 1962-
Policing race and place in Indian country : over- and underenforcement.
Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, c2009.

E98 C89 J33 2009
Jacobs, Margaret D., 1963-
White mother to a dark race : settler colonialism, maternalism, and the removal of indigenous children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2009.

E99 N5 S347 2009
Schofield, Brian.
Selling your father's bones : America's 140-year war against the Nez Perce Tribe.
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.

E99 P7 S837 2009
Starita, Joe.
"I am a man" : Chief Standing Bear's journey for justice.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2009.

E169.12 L548 2008
Lingeman, Richard R.
Nation guide to the Nation.
New York : Vintage Books, c2008.

E176.1 B444 2009
Benardo, Leonard.
Citizen-in-chief : the second lives of the American presidents.
New York, NY : William Morrow, c2009.

E176.1 U688 2009
Updegrove, Mark K.
Baptism by fire : eight presidents who took office in times of crisis.
New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2009, c2008.

E183.8 C6 W364 2009
Wang, Chi, 1932-
George W. Bush and China : policies, problems, and partnership.
Lanham : Lexington Books, c2009.

E183.8 R9 S3835 2009
Saul, Norman E.
Historical dictionary of United States-Russian/Soviet relations.
Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2009.

E184 A75 Z47 2009
Zhao, Xiaojian, 1953-
Asian American chronology : chronologies of the American mosaic.
Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood Press/ABC-CLIO, c2009.

E184.35 E53 2008
Encyclopedia of American Jewish history.
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2008.

E185.61 B975 2009
Bush, Roderick D.
End of white world supremacy : black internationalism and the problem of the color line.
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2009.

E185.61 W17 2009
Walker, Anders.
Ghost of Jim Crow : how southern moderates used Brown v. Board of Education to stall civil rights.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

E185.615 I34 2009
Ifill, Gwen.
Breakthrough : politics and race in the age of Obama.
New York : Doubleday, c2009.

E185.925 F536 2009
Flamming, Douglas.
African Americans in the West.
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2009.

E185.96 G384 2009
Gates, Henry Louis.
In search of our roots : how 19 extraordinary African Americans reclaimed their past.
New York : Crown Publishers, c2009.

E185.97 F374 A3 2009
Farris, Christine King.
Through it all : reflections on my life, my family, and my faith.
New York : Atria Books, 2009.

E185.97 R93 P63 2009
Podair, Jerald E., 1953-
Bayard Rustin : American dreamer.
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Pub., c2009.

E185.97 W4 S667 2009
Smock, Raymond.
Booker T. Washington : Black leadership in the age of Jim Crow.
Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, c2009.

E206 N676 2009
Norton, Louis Arthur.
Captains contentious : the dysfunctional sons of the brine.
Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, c2009.

E230.5 S7 P54 2008
Piecuch, Jim.
Three peoples, one king : loyalists, Indians, and slaves in the revolutionary South, 1775-1782.
Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 2008.

E241 G9 B33 2009
Babits, Lawrence Edward.
Long, obstinate, and bloody : the Battle of Guilford Courthouse.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.

E384.3 B76 2009
Brooks, Stefan Marc.
Webster-Hayne debate : an inquiry into the nature of union.
Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2009.

E415.9 C4 A4 2009
Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873.
"Spur up your Pegasus" : family letters of Salmon, Kate, and Nettie Chase, 1844-1873.
Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, c2009.

E449 N43 2009
Neal, Anthony W.
Unburdened by conscience : a black people's collective account of America's ante-bellum South and the aftermath.
Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2009.

E457 K675 2009
Kostyal, K. M., 1951-
Abraham Lincoln's extraordinary era : the man and his times.
Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, 2009.

E457 T3 2009
Tagg, Larry.
Unpopular Mr. Lincoln : the story of the most reviled American president.
El Dorado Hills, Calif. : Newbury : Savas Beatie ; Casemate [distributor], 2009.

E457.2 W875 2009
Work, David.
Lincoln's political generals.
Urbana : University of Illinois Press,c2009.

E467.1 K78 P84313 2008
Pula, James S., 1946-
For liberty and justice : a biography of Brigadier General WE odzimierz B. KrzyzLanowski, 1824-1887.
Utica, N.Y. : Ethnic Heritage Studies Center, Utica College, c2008.

E615 P53 2009
Pickenpaugh, Roger.
Captives in gray : the Civil War prisons of the Union.
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2009.

E727 L44 2009
Leeke, Jim, 1949-
Manila and Santiago : the new steel Navy in the Spanish-American War.
Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, c2009.

E744 B6977 2009
Brewer, Susan A. (Susan Ann), 1958-
Why America fights : patriotism and war propaganda from the Philippines to Iraq.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

E767.1 M29 2008
Magee, Malcolm D., 1957-
What the world should be : Woodrow Wilson and the crafting of a faith-based foreign policy.
Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, c2008.

E807 F346 2008
FDR's world : war, peace, and legacies.
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

E840.8 K4 H493 2009
Heymann, C. David (Clemens David), 1945-
Bobby and Jackie : a love story.
New York : Atria Books, 2009.

E840.8 R84 G73 2009
Graham, Bradley.
By his own rules : the ambitions, successes, and ultimate failures of Donald Rumsfeld.
New York : PublicAffairs, c2009.

E842 O24 2009
O'Brien, Michael, 1923-
Rethinking Kennedy : an interpretive biography.
Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2009.

E877.2 B86 2009
Bunch, William.
Tear down this myth : how the Reagan legacy has distorted our politics and haunts our future.
New York : Free Press, 2009.

E885 E39 2008
Edwards, Jason A., 1973-
Navigating the post-cold war world : President Clinton's foreign policy rhetoric.
Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, c2008.

E906 S73 2008
Stanage, Niall.
Redemption song : an Irish reporter inside the Obama campaign.
Dublin : Chester Springs, Pa. : Liberties Press ; Distributed in the United States by Dufour Editions, 2008.

E907 A85 2009
Asim, Jabari, 1962-
What Obama means : --for our culture, our politics, our future.
New York : William Morrow, c2009.

F319 M62 G35 2009
Gaines, Steven S.
Fool's paradise : players, poseurs, and the culture of excess in South Beach.
New York : Crown Publishers, c2009.

F347 J6 J465 2009
Jenkins, Sally.
State of Jones : the small southern county that seceded from the Confederacy.
New York : Doubleday, 2009.

F394 A99 N465 2009
Mears, Michelle M.
And grace will lead me home : African American freedmen communities of Austin, Texas, 1865-1928.
Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech University Press, c2009.

F444 W425 B35 2009
Baker, John F., 1962-
Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation : stories of my family's journey to freedom.
New York : Atria Books, 2009.

F459 B7 U53 2009
Underwood, Josie, 1840-1923.
Josie Underwood's Civil War diary.
Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2009.

F586.42 C74 C74 2009
Crehore, Dave.
Sweet and sour pie : a Wisconsin boyhood.
Madison, Wis. : Terrace Books, c2009.

F614 S4 V65 2005
Voices of Rondo : oral histories of Saint Paul's historic Black community.
Minneapolis : Syren Book Co., c2005

F722 H6 2009
Ho! for wonderland : travelers' accounts of Yellowstone, 1872-1914.
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2009.

F910.7 P35 B46 2009
Benet, Lorenzo.
Trailblazer : an intimate biography of Sarah Palin.
New York : Threshold Editions, 2009.

G530 T6 B868 2009
Butler, Daniel Allen.
Other side of the night : the Carpathia, the Californian and the night the Titanic was lost.
Drexel Hill, PA : Casemate, 2009.

GV199.44 C22 S36 2009
Scott, Chic, 1945-
Deep powder and steep rock : the life of mountain guide Hans Gmoser.
Banff, Alta. : Assiniboine Pub., c2009.

GV863 A1 B785 2009
Brunson, James E. (James Edward), 1954-
Early image of black baseball : race and representation in the popular press, 1871-1890.
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2009.

HC106 F45 2009
Felix, David, 1921-
America rising : power and political economy in the first nation.
New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c2009.

HQ1426 M393 2009
May, Martha.
Women's roles in twentieth-century America.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2009.

HV5090 I6 L366 2009
Lantzer, Jason S.
"Prohibition is here to stay" : the Reverend Edward S. Shumaker and the dry crusade in America.
Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2009.

HX84 R67 R67 2008
Rosenberg, Daniel, 1953-
Underground communists in the McCarthy period : a family memoir.
Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, c2008.

JC573.2 U6 S352 2009
Schneider, Gregory L., 1965-
Conservative century : from reaction to revolution.
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2009.

JK516 R493 2009
Rodman, Peter W.
Presidential command : power, leadership, and the making of foreign policy from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.

JK552 D33 2009
Daalder, Ivo H.
In the shadow of the Oval Office : profiles of the national security advisers and the presidents they served : from JFK to George W. Bush.
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.

JK1924 N43 2009
Nealy, Lisa Nikol.
African American women voters : racializing religiosity, political consciousness and progressive political action in U.S. presidential elections from
Lanham : University Press of America, c2009.

JK1924 P68 2009
Piven, Frances Fox.
Keeping down the black vote : race and the demobilization of American voters.
New York : New Press, c2009.

JS1450 S313 G45 2009
Gendron, Richard.
Leftmost city : power and progressive politics in Santa Cruz.
Boulder, CO : Westview Press, c2009.

PN4874 K534 T74 2009
Tofel, Richard J., 1957-
Restless genius : Barney Kilgore, The Wall Street journal, and the invention of modern journalism.
New York : St. Martin's Press,2009.

PN4888 W65 S89 2009
Suzuki, Noriko, 1974-
Re-invention of the American West : women's periodicals and gendered geography in the late nineteenth-century United States.
Lewiston, N.Y. : The Edwin Mellen Press, c2009.

UA29 7th M365 2009
McManus, John C., 1965-
American courage, American carnage : 7th Infantry chronicles : the 7th Infantry Regiment's combat experience, 1812 through World War II.
New York : Forge, c2009.

UB148 S54 2009
Simons, Suzanne.
Master of war : Blackwater USA's Erik Prince and the business of war.
New York, NY : Harper, c2009.

UB256 U6 A53 2009
Aid, Matthew M., 1958-
Secret sentry : the untold history of the National Security Agency.
New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2009.

Select Magazines/Newspapers

Edge : soul of the cities.
Anoka, MN : Edge LLC.
Subject: Spirituality.

KAHS topics.
Kaukauna, WI : Kaukauna Area Historical Society.
Subject: Kaukauna Region (Wis.)--History.

Wisconsin Government Publications

WI Gov. Pub ACC 2.6/2:A 36/2007
Election Administration Manual for Wisconsin Municipal Clerks / Election Division, Wisconsin Government Accountability Board.
Only available on the Internet: link

WI Gov. Pub PL SE.3:E 5/K 46/2009
Kenosha-Racine-Milwaukee Alternatives Analysis/Draft Environmental Impact Statement Kenosha, Racine, Milwaukee Counties, Wisconsin: Draft Environmental Impact Statement/ SEWRPC.
Also available on the Internet, link to latest ed. below: pdf

WI Gov. Pub SER.4:W 3/2008-2009
PSC Water Currents: The Water Conservation and Efficiency Newsletter of the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin.
Only available on the Internet: link

WI Gov. Pub LEG.1:2009/9
Special Committee on Building Wisconsin's Workforce / Wisconsin Legislature Special Committee on Building Wisconsin's Workforce.
Also available on the Internet: pdf

WI Gov. Pub LEG.1:2009/5
Special Committee on Strengthening Wisconsin Families / Wisconsin Legislature Special Committee on Strengthening Wisconsin Families.
Also available on the Internet, search under annual report: pdf

WI Gov. Pub ACC 2:6/2:R 4/2008
Wisconsin Election Day Voter Registration Manual / Election Division, Wisconsin Government Accountability Board.
Only available on the Internet: link

WI Gov. GO COLL.1:2009
Wisconsin Minnesota Collaboration Report / Wisconsin Office of the Governor, Minnesota Office of the Governor.
Only available on the Internet: link

WI Gov. Pub AGR.1/5:L 43/2008
Wisconsin's Task Force on Lead Arsenate Contamination: Final Report / Task Force on Lead Arsenate Contamination.
Available on the Internet: link

WI Gov. Pub VTN.6/2:T 85/2009
Wisconsin Tuition Programs for Veterans, Qualifying Spouses, and Children: Information, Forms and Instructions / Wisconsin Dept. of Veterans Affairs.
Only available on the Internet: pdf

United States Government Publications

Y 10.2:AR 5/14
An Analysis of the Army's Transformation Programs and Possible Alternatives, a CBO Study / Congressional Budget Office, 2009.

HE 1.6/3:T 73
Department of Health and Human Services 2007-2008 Tribal Resource Guide /
Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, 2007.

D 214.14/3:V 67
Marine Advisors with the Vietnamese Marine Corps : selected documents prepared by the U.S. Marines Advisory Unit, Naval Advisory Group /
History Division United States Marine Corps, 2009.


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