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April 2010

Recent WHS Library Acquisitions

General Collection

BL2525 B875 2008
Butler, Jon, 1940-
New world faiths : religion in colonial America.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

BV2360 A8 R54 2009
Richardson, Joe Martin.
Education for liberation : the American Missionary Association and African Americans, 1890 to the Civil Rights Movement.
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2009.

BX6495 W37 S44 2009
Sheler, Jeffery L.
Prophet of purpose : the life of Rick Warren.
New York : Doubleday, c2009.

BX8568 B4 E54 2009
Engel, Katherine CarteL .
Religion and profit : Moravians in early America.
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2009.

BX8641 S65 2009
Post-manifesto polygamy : the 1899-1904 correspondence of Helen, Owen, and Avery Woodruff.
Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 2009.

BX8695 S6 J665 2009
Joseph Smith, Jr. : reappraisals after two centuries.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

CT220 L88 2010
Lutz, Stuart.
Last leaf : voices of history's last-known survivors.
Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2010.

D507 L26 2010
Laskin, David, 1953-
Long way home : an American journey from Ellis Island to the Great War.
New York : Harper, c2010.

D570.3 26th S46 2008
Shay, Michael E., 1945-
Yankee Division in the First World War : in the highest tradition.
College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2008.

D769.372 5th B87 2010
Burgin, R. V.
Islands of the damned : a Marine at war in the Pacific.
New York : NAL Caliber, c2010.

D805 G3 H523 2010
Hirsh, Michael.
Liberators : America's witnesses to the Holocaust.
New York : Bantam Books, c2010.

DS79.766 G35 2010
Gallagher, Matt.
Kaboom : embracing the suck in a savage little war.
Cambrigde, MA : Da Capo Press, c2010.

DS371.412 B544 2010
Blehm, Eric.
Only thing worth dying for : how eleven Green Berets forged a new Afghanistan.
New York : Harper, c2010.

DS559.5 B738 2010
Bray, Gary W.
After My Lai : my year commanding first platoon, Charlie Company.
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2010.

DS559.7 H47 2010
Herschensohn, Bruce, 1932-
American amnesia : how the U.S. Congress forced the surrenders of South Vietnam and Cambodia.
New York : Beaufort Books : Distributed by Midpoint Trade Books, c2010.

DS919 B69 2008
Bowers, William T., 1946-
Line : combat in Korea, January - February 1951.
Lexington, Ky : University Press of Kentucky, c2008.

E78 T33 T89 2009
TVA archaeology : seventy-five years of prehistoric site research.
Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2009.

E83.866 R377 2010
Reilly, Hugh J.
Frontier newspapers and the coverage of the Plains Indian Wars.
Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, c2010.

E85 S69 2010
Snyder, Christina.
Slavery in Indian country : the changing face of captivity in early America.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010.

E98 M6815 C54 2009
Cherry, James F., 1948-
Headpots of northeast Arkansas and southern Pemiscot County, Missouri.
Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2009.

E99 C815 G36 2008
Gamble, Lynn H.
Chumash world at European contact : power, trade, and feasting among complex hunter-gatherers.
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.

E99 C85 C473 2008
Comanche ethnography : field notes of E. Adamson Hoebel, Waldo R. Wedel, Gustav G. Carlson, and Robert H. Lowie.
Lincoln : Bloomington : University of Nebraska Press ; In cooperation with the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, c2008.

E99 S22 E1844 2010
Eastman, Charles Alexander, 1858-1939.
Living in two worlds : the American Indian experience illustrated.
Bloomington, Ind. : World Wisdom, c2010.

E99 Y2 K367 2008
Scheuerman, Richard D.
Finding Chief Kamiakin : the life and legacy of a northwest patriot.
Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University Press, c2008.

E169.1 F538 2010
Fischer, Claude S., 1948-
Made in America : a social history of American culture and character.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.

E169.12 J265 2010
Jacobs, Robert A., 1960-
Dragon's tail : Americans face the atomic age.
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2010.

E176.1 R644 2010
Robinson, Peter M., 1958-
Dance of the comedians : the people, the president, and the performance of political standup comedy in America.
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2010.

E183.7 S24 2010
Saito, Natsu Taylor.
Meeting the enemy : American exceptionalism and international law.
New York : New York University Press, c2010.

E183.8 C5 C62 2010
Cohen, Warren I.
America's response to China : a history of Sino-American relations.
New York : Columbia University Press, c2010.

E183.8 K6 S55 2010
Shin, Gi-Wook.
One alliance, two lenses : U.S.-Korea relations in a new era.
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2010.

E184 H27 W458 2010
White, Ashli.
Encountering revolution : Haiti and the making of the early republic.
Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.

E185.2 F88 ser.3 v.1
Land and labor, 1865.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008.

E185.6 C265 2008
Caponi-Tabery, Gena.
Jump for joy : jazz, basketball, and Black culture in 1930s America.
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2008.

E185.615 B26 2010
Bailey, Eric J., 1958-
Cultural rights movement : fulfilling the promise of civil rights for African Americans.
Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, c2010.

E185.615 B2855 2009
Barack Obama and African American empowerment : the rise of Black America's new leadership.
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

E185.8 O52 2010
On race and racism in America : confessions in philosophy.
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2010.

E185.86 G494 2010
Gill, Tiffany M.
Beauty shop politics : African American women's activism in the beauty industry.
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2010.

E188 N44 2010
Nellis, Eric Guest, 1938-
Empire of regions : a brief history of colonial British America.
Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2010.

E199 T87 2008
Truxes, Thomas M.
Defying empire : trading with the enemy in colonial New York.
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.

E210 D67 2009
Dorsey, Peter A., 1958-
Common bondage : slavery as metaphor in revolutionary America.
Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2009.

E302.5 F54 2009
Fleming, Thomas J.
Intimate lives of the founding fathers.
New York : Smithsonian Books, c2009.

E443 H368 2009
Harrison, Renee K.
Enslaved women and the art of resistance in antebellum America.
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

E444 S73 2010
Speaking lives, authoring texts : three African American women's oral slave narratives.
Albany : State University of New York Press, c2010.

E457.15 A153 2008
Abraham Lincoln companion : a celebration of his life and times through a selection of remembrances, poems, songs, and tributes by relatives, friends,
Detroit, MI : Omnigraphics, c2008.

E470.9 W35 2008
Wallen, Henry Davies, 1819-1886.
New Mexico Territory during the Civil War : Wallen and Evans inspection reports, 1862-1863.
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2008.

E491 U4817 2010
Union combined operations in the Civil War.
New York : Fordham University Press, 2010.

E513.5 55th W55 2010
Wilder, Burt G. (Burt Green), 1841-1925.
Practicing medicine in a black regiment : the Civil War diary of Burt G. Wilder, 55th Massachusetts.
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2010.

E524 N67 2008
North Carolinians in the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008.

E540 I6 M35 2009
McCarthy, Cal.
Green, blue, and grey : the Irish in the American Civil War.
Doughcloyne, Wilton, Cork [Ireland] : Collins Press, 2009.

E564.4 K37 2008
Kentuckians in gray : Confederate generals and field officers of the Bluegrass State.
Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2008.

E664 H24 H66 2010
Horner, William T., 1968-
Ohio's kingmaker : Mark Hanna, man & myth.
Athens : Ohio University Press, c2010.

E710 W485 2010
Williams, R. Hal (Richard Hal), 1941-
Realigning America : McKinley, Bryan, and the remarkable election of 1896.
Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2010.

E806 G64 2009
Golway, Terry, 1955-
Together we cannot fail : FDR and the American presidency in years of crisis.
Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks MediaFusion, c2009.

E836 J24 2010
Jablonsky, David.
War by land, sea, and air : Dwight Eisenhower and the concept of unified command.
New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2010.

E840.8 B967 A3 2010
Byrne, Jeb.
Out in front : preparing the way for JKF and LBJ.
Albany : State University of New York Press, c2010.

E840.8 E293 Y68 2010
Young, Andrew (Andrew Aldridge), 1966-
Politician : an insider's account of John Edwards's pursuit of the presidency and the scandal that brought him down.
New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2010.

E840.8 R68 A3 2010
Rove, Karl.
Courage and consequence : my life as a conservative in the fight.
New York : Threshold Editions, 2010.

E842.1 R33 2010
Rabe, Stephen G.
John F. Kennedy : world leader.
Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, c2010.

E842.9 L38 2010
Letters to Jackie : condolences from a grieving nation.
New York : Ecco, c2010.

E877.2 R38 2009
Ratnesar, Romesh.
Tear down this wall : a city, a president, and the speech that ended the Cold War.
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.

E907 G73 2010
Graham, Michael, 1963-
That's no angry mob, that's my mom : team Obama's assault on tea-party, talk radio Americans.
Washington, DC : New York : Regnery Pub. ; Distributed to the trade by Perseus Distribution, c2010.

F128.64 L6 K53 2010
Khan, Yasmin Sabina.
Enlightening the world : the creation of the Statue of Liberty.
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010.

F187 P8 K23 2007
Kapsch, Robert J.
Potomac Canal : George Washington and the waterway west.
Morgantown, W.V. : West Virginia University Press, 2007

F189 B19 A285 2010
Pietila, Antero, 1943-
Not in my neighborhood : how bigotry shaped a great American city.
Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2010.

F209 S733 2008
Southern cultures : the fifteenth anniversary reader.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008.

F229 E9 2009
Evans, Emory G.
"topping people" : the rise and decline of Virginia's old political elite, 1680-1790.
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009.

F275.42 S365 A3 2010
Sanford, Jenny, 1962-
Staying true.
New York, N.Y. : Ballantine Books, c2010.

F286 E52 2008
Empire state of the South : Georgia history in documents and essays.
Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, c2008.

F316.2 K565 2008
Klinkenberg, Jeff.
Pilgrim in the land of alligators : more stories about real Florida.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2008.

F319 J1 H87 2008
Hurst, Rodney L.
It was never about a hot dog and a Coke! : a personal account of the 1960 sit-in demonstrations in Jacksonville, Florida and Ax Handle Saturday.
Livermore, CA : WingSpan Press, 2008.

F379 N557 D39 2009
Dawdy, Shannon Lee, 1967-
Building the devil's empire : French colonial New Orleans.
Chicago, Ill. : Bristol : University of Chicago Press ; University Presses Marketing [distributor], 2009.

F394 R66 J64 2008
Johnson, Benjamin Heber.
Bordertown : the odyssey of an American place.
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.

F546.4 W35 A3 2007
Walker, Daniel, 1922-
Maverick and the machine : Governor Dan Walker tells his story.
Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2007.

F566 S39 2009
Schwartz, James Z.
Conflict on the Michigan frontier : Yankee and borderland cultures, 1815-1840.
DeKalb, Ill. : Northern Illinois University Press, c2009.

F590.7 A73 2008
Archaeological landscapes on the High Plains.
Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, c2008.

F592 W865 2009
Wooster, Robert, 1956-
American military frontiers : the United States Army in the West, 1783-1900.
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2009.

F614 M557 N38 2010
Nathanson, Iric.
Minneapolis in the twentieth century : the growth of an American city.
Saint Paul, MN : Minnesota Historical Society Press, c2010.

F721 S646 2008
Smith, Duane A.
Rocky Mountain heartland : Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming in the twentieth century.
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2008.

F786 C219 2010
Gardner, G. Clinton (George Clinton), 1834-1904.
Fiasco : George Clinton Gardner's correspondence from the U.S.-Mexico boundary survey, 1849-1854.
Dallas : Southern Methodist University Press : William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies : DeGolyer Library, 2010.

F826 M28 M396 2010
Maxwell, John Gary, 1933-
Gettysburg to Great Salt Lake : George R. Maxwell, Civil War hero and federal marshal among the Mormons.
Norman, Okla. : Arthur H. Clark Co./University of Oklahoma Press, 2010.

F849 L35 M67 2010
More peoples of Las Vegas : one city, many faces.
Reno : University of Nevada Press, c2010.

F849 R4 B37 2008
Barber, Alicia.
Reno's big gamble : image and reputation in the biggest little city.
Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2008.

F1144 E44 W44 2009
Whelan, Dianne, 1965-
This vanishing land : a woman's journey to the Canadian Arctic.
Halfmoon Bay, B.C., : Caitlin Press, c2009.

GE155 M4 R46 2009
Remaking Boston : an environmental history of the city and its surroundings.
Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2009.

GT607 W37 2010
Wass, Ann Buermann.
Clothing through American history : the federal era through Antebellum, 1786-1860.
Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood, c2010.

GT2490 Q85 2010
QuinceanL era.
Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood, c2010.

GV198 L3 H35 2008
Hailey, Charlie, 1970-
Campsite : architectures of duration and place.
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2008.

GV697 A1 B564 2009
Bohn, Michael K.
Heroes & ballyhoo : how the golden age of the 1920s transformed American sports.
Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, c2009.

GV865 B3 L48 2008
Levitt, Daniel R.
Ed Barrow : the bulldog who built the Yankees' first dynasty.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.

GV867.64 E45 2010
Elias, Robert, 1950-
Empire strikes out : how baseball sold U.S. foreign policy and promoted the American way abroad.
New York : New Press : Distributed by Perseus Distribution, c2010.

GV884 G68 W47 2008
Westcott, Rich.
Mogul : Eddie Gottlieb, Philadelphia sports legend and pro basketball pioneer.
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2008.

GV939 S345 A3 2010
Schuyler, Nick.
Not without hope.
New York : William Morrow, c2010.

HC107 F6 S75 2008
Stronge, William B.
Sunshine economy : an economic history of Florida since the Civil War.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2008.

HD5856 U5 B33 2007
Babb, Sanora.
On the dirty plate trail : remembering the Dust Bowl refugee camps.
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007.

HD6509 C48 S73 2010
Stavans, Ilan.
Cesar Chavez : a photographic essay.
El Paso, Tex. : Cinco Puntos Press, c2010.

HD9662 C664 T865 2008
Kealing, Bob.
Tupperware, unsealed : Brownie Wise, Earl Tupper, and the home party pioneers.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2008.

HE356 N7 F453 2008
Fein, Michael R.
Paving the way : New York road building and the American state, 1880-1956.
Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2008.

HN57 S26 2009
Sandine, Al, 1938-
Taming of the American crowd : from stamp riots to shopping sprees.
New York : Monthly Review Press, c2009.

HQ144 M27 2009
MacKell, Jan, 1962-
Red light women of the Rocky Mountains.
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2009.

HQ971.5 C6 M38 2010
Matthews, Mark, 1951-
Droppers : America's first hippie commune, Drop City.
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2010.

HQ1416 S65 2010
Smith, Merril D.
Women's roles in eighteenth-century America.
Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood, c2010.

HQ1438 S63 W68 2006
Work, family, and faith : rural southern women in the twentieth century.
Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2006.

HV7911 B8 W65 2009
Wolff, David A.
Seth Bullock : Black Hills lawman.
Pierre, S.D. : South Dakota State Historical Society Press, c2009.

HV8144 F43 R67 2009
Rosswurm, Steven.
FBI and the Catholic Church, 1935-1962.
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2009.

HV9481 D44 B38 2008
Baumler, Ellen.
Dark spaces : Montana's historic penitentiary at Deer Lodge.
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2008.

HX843.7 G65 N53 2010
Nicholson, C. BriL d.
Emma Goldman : still dangerous.
Montreal ; New York : Black Rose Books, c2010.

JC599 U52 G445 2008
Lefever, Harry G.
Sacred places : a guide to the civil rights sites in Atlanta, Georgia.
Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, 2008.

JK275 R66 2010
Romney, Mitt.
No apology : the case for American greatness.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2010.

JK528 P75 2010
Presidential elections, 1789-2008.
Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2010.

KF368 H65 S54 2010
Shirley, Glenn.
Temple Houston : lawyer with a gun.
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 2010, c1980.

LA2317 B34 B43 2009
Beckwith, David W.
New day in the Delta : inventing school desegregation as you go.
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2009.

PN4885 Y54 F6713 2009
Manor, Ehud, 1960-
Forward : the Jewish daily Forward (Forverts) newspaper : immigrants, socialism and Jewish politics in New York, 1890-1917.
Brighton [England] ; Portland, Or. : Sussex Academic Press, 2009.

PS3606 A716 B53 2008
Farmer, Daryl, 1965-
Bicycling beyond the divide : two journeys into the West.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.

TF24 F6 T875 2008
Turner, Gregg M.
Journey into Florida railroad history.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2008.

VE23 B368 2008
Bartlett, Merrill L.
Leathernecks : an illustrated history of the U.S. Marine Corps.
Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, c2008.

VK23 V689 2009
Voyages, the age of engines : documents in American maritime history.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2009.

VK23 V69 2009
Voyages, the age of sail : documents in American maritime history.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2009.

Z1236 R436 2009
Records of our national life : American history at the National Archives.
Washington, DC : Foundation for the National Archives, 2009.

Select Magazines/Newspapers

Y'all.
Oxford, Miss. : Y'all Media.
Subject: Southern States.

SuperConsciousness magazine.
Yelm, Wash. : Editora La Voz del Istmos, USA Inc.
Subject: Parapsychology.

Collegiate.
Nashville, TN : LifeWay Christian Resources.
Subject: College students--Religious life.

BizTimes Milwaukee.
Milwaukee, Wis. : Small Business Times, LLC.
Subject: Small business--Wisconsin.

Eagle Historical Society newsletter.
Eagle, Wis. : Eagle Historical Society.
Subject: Eagle (Wis.)--History.

Luther Valley news.
Footville, WI : Luther Valley Historical Society.
Subject: Rock County (Wis.)--History.

Wisconsin Government Publications
WI Gov. Pub: ED.6/2:H 4/S 4/2008
Building Skills for Health Literacy : Tobacco / Wisconsin Dept. of Public Instruction.

WI Gov. Pub: ED.6/2:H 4/T 6/2008
Building Skills for Health Literacy : Human Sexuality / Wisconsin Dept. of Public Instruction.

WI Gov. Pub: NAT.6/2:W 443/2008
A Closer Look at Whooping Cranes. / Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources : Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership.
Available on the Internet: pdf

WI Gov. Pub: LEG 2.3:G 68/TG/2008
Governing Wisconsin Teacher's Guide / Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau.
Available on the Internet: pdf

WI Gov. Pub NAT.1/2:W 64/2/2009
The History of Wolves in Wisconsin / Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources.
Available on the Internet: pdf

WI Gov. Pub AGR.6/2:E 8/2/A-M
Wisconsin International Trade Team Market Reports / Wisconsin Dept. of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection.
Available on the Internet: link

United States Government Publications

D 114.7:OR 2/V.3/2009
United States Army in World War II, The Technical Services, The Ordnance Department: on Beachhead and Battlefront v. 3 / Center of Military History, 2009.

D 114.19:M 59/3/V.1/2009
American Military History, volume 1, The United States Army and the Forging of a Nation, 1775-1917 / Center of Military History, 2009.

I 29.86/4:UN 3
Cultural Landscape : Report for the United States Armory and Potomac Riverfront, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park /, National Park Service, 2009.

D 114.2:IN 6
A History of Innovation : U.S. Amy Adaptation in War and Peace / Center of Military History, 2009.

Canadian Government Publications

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