Table of Contents
By Bobbie Malone and Kori Oberle
Chapter 1: Connecting to Our State's Story
- How Do We Tell Our State's Story?
- What Does It Mean to Think Like a Historian?
- What Kinds of Evidence Do Historians Use?
- How Do Historians Use Evidence to Write History?
Chapter 2: Wisconsin: A Place with a Past
- A Landscape Shaped over Time: The Ice Age Trail
- Locating Wisconsin in the United States
- Locating Wisconsin in the World
- Using Longitude and Latitude
- What Does Wisconsin Look Like Today?
- Reshaped by a Long-Ago and Very Cold Past
- Glacial Landforms Today
- Connected by Water: Wisconsin's Waterways
- Exploring Wisconsin's Five Regions: Identifying the Regions, Lake Superior Lowland
- Exploring Wisconsin's Five Regions: Northern Highland, Central Plain
- Exploring Wisconsin's Five Regions: Western Upland, Eastern Ridges and Lowlands
- Favorite Places in Wisconsin to Visit
Chapter 3: Wisconsin's First People
- Native People Today Celebrate Their History and Traditions
- Ways to Discover the Long-Ago Past
- Mammoths, Mastodons, and Earliest People
- Inventions for a New Age: The Archaic Tradition
- People of the Woodland: New Ways of Living in a Warmer Wisconsin
- The Mysterious Mississippian Tradition
- Early Wisconsin Farmers: The Oneota Tradition
- Communicating in Many Forms
- Changes over Thousands of Years
Chapter 4: The Fur Trade Era: Exploration and Exchange in Wisconsin
- Exploring and Learning Today
- Native People near the Close of the Old Time
- Explorers from Europe Arrive in Wisconsin
- Missionaries and Mapmakers
- Beavers Mean Business: The French Fur Trade in Wisconsin
- Bringing Cultures Together: The Métis Experience
- From French to British Control
- Same Trade, New Leaders: Americans Take Over
- From Forts to Settlement
- Changes over Two Hundred Years
Chapter 5: Becoming Wisconsin: From Indian Lands to Territory to Statehood
- Wisconsin Lands Change Hands
- Treaty Making
- Living on the Lead Frontier
- The Black Hawk War
- Measuring and Mapping Land to Sell
- Wisconsin Becomes a Territory
- Wisconsin Becomes the 30th State
- What Happens at the Wisconsin Capitol?
- Looking Back at Our State's Beginnings
Chapter 6: They Came to Wisconsin and They're Still Coming:
Immigration and Settlement
- Immigration and Migration: Then and Now
- Making the Journey
- A Stonemason in Cornwall, England, Comes to Mineral Point
- Free at Last
- A German Farmstead in Washington County
- From Finland to Bayfield County
- Lucky to Be in America
- Bringing Texas North to Wisconsin
- Mai Ya's Long Journey from Thailand to Wisconsin
- Looking Back at Immigration and Settlement in Wisconsin
Chapter 7: Wisconsin and the Civil War
- Free States, Slave States, and Fugitive Slaves
- Abolitionists in Wisconsin
- The Civil War Comes to Wisconsin
- Those from Wisconsin Who Fought
- Wisconsin Goes to War: Two Stories
- Wisconsin Goes to War: Lives Changed
- Places to Remember the War
Chapter 8: Lead, Soil, and Saw Dust, 1820-1914
- Wisconsin: A Land Rich in Natural Resources
- Getting the Minerals Out
- Farming to Feed the Family
- From One Crop to Many Crops and Many Animals
- Learning about Farming in the Past
- We Become a Dairy State
- From Milking to Marketing
- Timber!
- From the Woods to the Mills
- Lumber, Pulp, and Paper
- Learning More about Mining, Farming, and Logging
Chapter 9: Transportation and Industry Change Wisconsin
- Wisconsin's Changing Landscape
- Shipping by Water: From Schooners to Steamers
- Shipping by Land: Railroads
- Big Industry Leads to Bigger Cities
- The Growth of Milwaukee
- Engineers and Entrepreneurs
- Comparing and Contrasting Wisconsin's Top Industries
- A New World for Workers
- Progressives and Positive Change
- Turning Points in Transportation and Industry
Chapter 10: Good Times, Hard Times, and Better Times
- Changes in Ways of Living
- New Century, New Roads
- Vacations for Some
- Wisconsin Goes to War: World War I
- The Great Depression: Looking for Work and Making Do
- Wisconsin Goes to War: World War II
- People Return to Peace and Work
Chapter 11: New Opportunities, New Challenges
- Wisconsin and the World
- Wisconsin Goes to War: Fighting Communism and the Korean War
- Suburbs and Interstate Highways
- Protecting Our Environment
- Organized Sports and Sports Fans
- Hunting and Fishing: Wisconsin Traditions
- Struggles and Protests for Equal Rights
- Wisconsin Goes to War: Vietnam and Protests
- Wisconsin Goes to War: The Gulf War and 9/11
- Bringing People Together
Chapter 12: A Place with a Future
- Taking Care of Our State's Story
- Saving Our Places and Our Spaces
- Protecting Wisconsin's Story
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