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Previous Recent Acquisitions

February 2010

Recent WHS Library Acquisitions

General Collection
BR563 N4 S37 2008
Savage, Barbara Dianne.
Your spirits walk beside us : the politics of Black religion.
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008.

BX8680 L48 L422 2009
Spencer, Irene, 1937-
Cult insanity : a memoir of polygamy, prophets, and blood atonement.
New York : Center Street, 2009.

BX8695 L92 L96 2009
Lyman, Edward Leo, 1942-
Amasa Mason Lyman, Mormon apostle and apostate : a study in dedication.
Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, c2009.

D570.33 28th N45 2009
Nelson, James Carl.
Remains of Company D : a story of the Great War.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2009.

D769.8 A6 S75 2008
Stewart, Todd, 1963-
Placing memory : a photographic exploration of Japanese American internment.
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2008.

D769.85 W61 S43 2009
Spatt, Robert.
On the home front : how World War II changed civilian life in Sheboygan County.
Sheboygan Falls, WI : Sheboygan County Historical Research Center, 2009.

D810 S7 O37 2009
O'Donnell, Patrick K., 1969-
They dared return : the true story of Jewish spies behind the lines in Nazi Germany.
Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2009.

DS79.76 S534 2003
Shepherd, Dennis W.
Returning son : from Bagdad, Kentucky to Baghdad, Iraq (and back).
Bloomington, Ind. : AuthorHouse, c2003.

DS79.766.F3 C366 2009
Camp, Richard D.
Operation Phantom Fury : the assault and capture of Fallujah, Iraq.
Minneapolis, MN : Zenith Press, 2009.

E98 S6 I53 2009
Indian slavery in colonial America.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2009.

E99 A6 O185 2009
Mifflin, Margot, 1960-
Blue tattoo : the life of Olive Oatman.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2009.

E99 Y23 S235 2010
Sackman, Douglas Cazaux, 1968-
Wild men : Ishi and Kroeber in the wilderness of modern America.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

E166 P86 2009
Potter, Eliza.
Hairdresser's experience in high life.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.

E169.12 S842 2010
Stories of Oprah : the Oprahfication of American culture.
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2010.

E176 I8 2009
Isaacson, Walter.
American sketches : great leaders, creative thinkers, and heroes of a hurricane.
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.

E176.1 M73 2010
Moats, Sandra.
Celebrating the Republic : presidential ceremony and popular sovereignty, from Washington to Monroe.
DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, c2010.

E184 C5 T834 2009
Tsui, Bonnie.
American Chinatown : a people's history of five neighborhoods.
New York : Free Press, 2009.

E185.6 S62 2009
Sklaroff, Lauren Rebecca.
Black culture and the New Deal : the quest for civil rights in the Roosevelt era.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.

E185.615 O63 2010
Ongiri, Amy Abugo, 1968-
Spectacular blackness : the cultural politics of the Black power movement and the search for a Black aesthetic.
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.

E185.86 B536 2010
Black sexualities : probing powers, passions, practices, and policies.
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2010.

E185.86 F673 2010
Foster, Frances Smith.
'Til death or distance do us part : marriage and the making of African America.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

E249 S23 2009
Sadosky, Leonard J.
Revolutionary negotiations : Indians, empires, and diplomats in the founding of America.
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009.

E469 J563 2010
Jones, Howard, 1940-
Blue & gray diplomacy : a history of Union and Confederate foreign relations.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.

E476.33 L57 2007
Little to eat and thin mud to drink : letters, diaries, and memoirs from the Red River campaigns, 1863-1864.
Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2007.

E476.7 G85 2008
Guide to the Atlanta campaign : Rocky Face Ridge to Kennesaw Mountain.
Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, 2008.

E476.93 S58 2009
Slotkin, Richard, 1942-
No quarter : the Battle of the Crater, 1864.
New York : Random House, c2009.

E487 C5237 2010
Stern, Julia A.
Mary Chesnut's Civil War epic.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.

E807 B75 2010
Brinkley, Alan.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

E840.8 C36 V47 2008
Vernetti, Michael, 1945-
Senator Howard Cannon of Nevada : a biography.
Reno, Nev. : University of Nevada Press, c2008.

E841 S57 2009
Smyser, W. R., 1931-
Kennedy and the Berlin Wall : "a hell of a lot better than a war".
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2009.

E873.2 M386 2009
Mattson, Kevin, 1966-
"What the heck are you up to, Mr. President?" : Jimmy Carter, America's "malaise," and the speech that should have changed the country.
Bloomsbury : New York, 2009.

E882 O85 2009
Otenyo, Eric Edwin.
First world presidency : George H.W. Bush, 1989-1993.
Youngstown, N.Y. : Teneo Press, c2009.

E903.3 L48 2010
Lester, Paul Martin.
On floods and photo ops : how Herbert Hoover and George W. Bush exploited catastrophes.
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2010.

F394.C78 O74 2009
O'Rear, Mary Jo Holoubek, 1943-
Storm over the bay : the people of Corpus Christi and their port.
College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2009.

F444 K7 F38 2008
Faulkner, Charles H.
Ramseys at Swan Pond : the archaeology and history of an East Tennessee farm.
Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2008.

F534 T3 R69 2009
Roznowski, Tom, 1951-
American hometown : Terre Haute, Indiana, 1927.
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2009.

F548.4 O34 H37 2009
Harpster, Jack, 1937-
Railroad tycoon who built Chicago : a biography of William B. Ogden.
Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2009.

GT2346 U6 O87 2009
Osterud, Amelia Klem.
Tattooed lady : a history.
Golden [Colo.] : Speck Press, c2009.

GV584 W6 K46 2009
Kendeigh, Andy.
Best Wisconsin sports arguments : the 100 most controversial, debatable questions for die-hard fans.
Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks, c2009.

GV838 E34 D34 2009
Dahlberg, Tim.
America's girl : the incredible story of how swimmer Gertrude Ederle changed the nation.
New York : St. Martin's Press, c2009.

GV863 A1 B3758 2009
Baseball Americana : treasures from the Library of Congress.
New York, NY : Smithsonian Books : Harper, c2009.

GV863 A1 T725 2009
Travers, Steven.
Tale of three cities : the 1962 baseball season in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, c2009.

GV865 L32 P36 2009
Paper, Lewis J.
Perfect : Don Larsen's miraculous World Series game and the men who made it happen.
New York, N.Y. : New American Library, c2009.

GV939 D39 D64 2009
Doherty, Justin (Justin M.)
Dayne game : Ron Dayne and the greatest day in Wisconsin football history.
Stevens Point, WI : KCI Sport Pub., 2009.

GV939 F29 B47 2009
Bernstein, Ross.
I love Brett Favre : the Brett Favre fans love to love ; I hate Brett Favre : the Brett Favre fans love to hate.
Chicago, Ill. : Triumph Books, c2009.

HC110 P6 P595 2009
Poverty and the government in America : a historical encyclopedia.
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2009.

HD9107 F6 H65 2008
Hollander, Gail M.
Raising cane in the 'glades : the global sugar trade and the transformation of Florida.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

HQ1439 P5 B73 2008
Branson, Susan.
Dangerous to know : women, crime, and notoriety in the early republic.
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008.

HV6248 J79 B66 1992
Bommersbach, Jana.
Trunk murderess, Winnie Ruth Judd : the truth about an American crime legend revealed at last.
New York : Simon & Schuster, c1992.

J81.4 I52 2009
In Roosevelt's bright shadow : presidential addresses about Canada from Taft to Obama in honour of FDR's 1938 speech at Queen's University.
Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2009.

JK1896 S64 2008
Sneider, Allison L.
Suffragists in an imperial age : U.S. expansion and the woman question, 1870-1929.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

PN4874.G679 A3 2009
Greene, Bob.
Late edition : a love story.
New York : St. Martin's Press, c2009.

SF274 U6 N67 2009
Norton, James R.
Master cheesemakers of Wisconsin.
Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2009.

TL540 S45 A3 2009
Sullenberger, Chesley, 1951-
Highest duty : my search for what really matters.
[New York] : William Morrow, c2009.

TR6.5 M67 2009
Morris, John Miller.
Taming the land : the lost postcard photographs of the Texas High Plains.
College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2009.

U43 U4 M34 2008
Mahnken, Thomas G., 1965-
Technology and the American way of war.
New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.

UA23 M463 2009
Melton, Stephen L., 1952-
Clausewitz delusion : how the American army screwed up the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (a way forward).
Minneapolis, MN : Zenith Press, 2009.

Select Magazines/Newspapers

HealthWise Madison.
[Madison, Wis.] : Malberry Media.
Subject: Nutrition—Wisconsin--Dane County.

Wisconsin Government Publications

WI Gov. Pub: COR.1/5:R 48/2009
2008/09 Probation and Parole Revocation Study / Wisconsin Dept. of Corrections.
Available on the Internet: link

WI Gov. Pub: FAM.3/2:Q 3/A 21-W87/2005-2009
Continuous Quality Improvement Quality Service Review.
County child welfare systems reports available on the Internet at the Wisconsin Dept. of Health Services web site: link

WI Gov. Pub ENE 2.4:I 6
Energy Independent Communities Newsletter/ Wisconsin Office of Energy Independence.
Available on the Internet: link

WI Gov. Pub ED.6/2:P 69/2/2009
Lessons on Communicable Disease Prevention K-12 / Student Services/Prevention & Wellness Team Division for Learning Support: Equity and Advocacy.
Also available on the Internet: pdf

WI Gov. Pub: LEG.1:2009/7
Special Committee on Performance-Based Disease Management Programs for Large Populations / Wisconsin Legislative Council.
Available on the Internet: pdf

WI Gov. Pub SER.2:W 3/5/2008-2009
Wisconsin Water Fact Sheet / Wisconsin Public Service Commission.
Available on the Internet: Search under: Water & Sewer resources and reports: Provider information: link

United States Government Publications

Y 1.1/5:109-322
Hurricane Katrina : Nation Still Unprepared / United States Congressional Serial Set, no. 15013, United States Government Printing Office, 2007.

Y 1.1/7:109-153
A History of the Committee on the Judiciary 1813-2006 / United States Congressional Serial Set, no. 15044, United States Government Printing Office, 2007.

Y 3.2C76/3/G27/2
Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner : Hearing before the Congressional Oversight Panel, September 10, 2009 / U.S. Government Printing Office, 2009.

Y 3.2:C 76/3/AU 8
Congressional Oversight Panel September Oversight Report, the Use of TARP Funds in the Support and Reorganization of the Domestic Automotive Industry /
U.S. Government Printing Office, 2009.

Y 3.2C 73/3/AU 8/2
Oversight of TARP Assistance to the Automobile Industry : Field Hearing Congressional Oversight Panel, July 27, 2009 / U.S. Government Printing Office, 2009.

I 29.88:AR 5/NORTH
Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee, Memorial North Dependency Historic Structure Report / U.S. Department of Interior, 2009.

I 29.88:AR 5/SOUTH
Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee, Memorial South Dependency Historic Structure Report / U.S. Department of Interior, 2009.

I 29.2:OR 4
Oriskany: A Place of Great Sadness : a Mohawk Valley Battlefield Ethnography, Fort Stanwix national Monument Special Ethnographic Report / National Park Service, 2009.

I 29.2:H 62/39
Historic Preservation : Response Methodology Based on the Hurricane Katrina Model / FEMA, National Park Service, Department of Interior, 2009.

I 29.2:T 48/4
Heart of the Mountain, the History of Timpanogos Cave National Monument / U.S. Department of Interior, 2009.

D 301.2:W 72/6
We Wanted Wings: a History of the Aviation Cadet Program /HQ ADGC/HO, 2009.

D 114.2:P 19/5
The Panama Canal and Army's Enterprise / Center for Military History, 2009.

D 114.2:T 49
Tip of the Spear : U.S. Army Small-Unit Action in Iraq, 2004-2007 / Center for Military History, 2009.

Canadian Government Publications

New Collections in the Archives of the WHS

Local Government Records

Manuscript Collections

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