Author :
Publisher : x
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 36,26 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780915709243
Names are arranged in alphabetical order.
Author : R. Richard Wagner
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 40,53 MB
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0870209132
The first of two groundbreaking volumes on gay history in Wisconsin, We’ve Been Here All Along provides an illuminating and nuanced picture of Wisconsin’s gay history from the reporting on the Oscar Wilde trials of 1895 to the landmark Stonewall Riots of 1969. Throughout these decades, gay Wisconsinites developed identities, created support networks, and found ways to thrive in their communities despite various forms of suppression—from the anti-vice crusades of the early twentieth century to the post-war labeling of homosexuality as an illness to the Lavender Scare of the 1950s. In We’ve Been Here All Along, R. Richard Wagner draws on historical research and materials from his own extensive archive to uncover previously hidden stories of gay Wisconsinites. This book honors their legacy and confirms that they have been foundational to the development and evolution of the state since its earliest days
Author : Michael E. Stevens
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 19,7 MB
Release : 2018-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 087020890X
From the mid-1830s through the 1850s, more than a half million people settled in Wisconsin. While traveling in ships and wagons, establishing homes, and forming new communities, these men, women, and children recorded their experiences in letters, diaries, and newspaper articles. In their own words, they revealed their fears, joys, frustrations, and hopes for life in this new place. The Making of Pioneer Wisconsin provides a unique and intimate glimpse into the lives of these early settlers, as they describe what it felt like to be a teenager in a wagon heading west or an isolated young wife living far from her friends and family. Woven together with context provided by historian Michael E. Stevens, these first-person accounts form a fascinating narrative that deepens our ability to understand and empathize with Wisconsin’s early pioneers.
Author : Jerry Apps
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 11,35 MB
Release : 2020-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0870209353
“From the ring of the ax in the woods, to the scream of the saw blade in the mill, to the founding of many of Wisconsin’s communities, Jerry Apps does an outstanding job bringing Wisconsin’s logging and lumbering heritage to life.”—Kerry P. Bloedorn, director, Rhinelander Pioneer Park Historical Complex For more than half a century, logging, lumber production, and affiliated enterprises in Wisconsin’s Northwoods provided jobs for tens of thousands of Wisconsinites and wealth for many individuals. The industry cut through the lives of nearly every Wisconsin citizen, from an immigrant lumberjack or camp cook in the Chippewa Valley to a Suamico sawmill operator, an Oshkosh factory worker to a Milwaukee banker. When the White Pine Was King tells the stories of the heyday of logging: of lumberjacks and camp cooks, of river drives and deadly log jams, of sawmills and lumber towns and the echo of the ax ringing through the Northwoods as yet another white pine crashed to the ground. He explores the aftermath of the logging era, including efforts to farm the cutover (most of them doomed to fail), successful reforestation work, and the legacy of the lumber and wood products industries, which continue to fuel the state’s economy. Enhanced with dozens of historic photos, When the White Pine Was King transports readers to the lumber boom era and reveals how the lessons learned in the vast northern forestlands continue to shape the region today.
Author : Sheila Terman Cohen
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 16,67 MB
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0870205331
Earth Day creator Gaylord Nelson comes to vivid life in this addition to the Badger Biographies series for young readers. Accessibly written and richly illustrated with historic images, Gaylord Nelson: Champion for Our Earth includes a glossary of terms, sidebars on World War II, DDT, and several facets of the environmental movement, plus activities and discussion questions. Born in Clear Lake, Wisconsin, in 1916, Gaylord grew up as immersed in his parents' political work and community service as he was in playing practical jokes and exploring the natural world surrounding his home town. Along the way he encountered experiences that would shape him in fundamental ways: as a man who stood up for what he believed in the face of opposition and yet who also understood how to treat his opponents with respect. Both traits would serve him well as he rose from law student to state senator to Wisconsin governor and finally to three terms as a United States Senator. Nelson fought to treat all races equally and to condemn McCarthy-era paranoia, but his greatest contribution was to sound the alarm about another battle: the fight to save the natural world and the earth itself. It was his idea to use teach-ins to let people know that the environment needed their help. Thanks to him, more natural resources were conserved and new laws demanded clean air and water. Now, every year on April 22, people all over the world plant trees and pick up litter to celebrate Earth Day. The Earth and its inhabitants aren't safe yet, but Gaylord Nelson demonstrated that even one person can help to save the world.
Author : R. Richard Wagner
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 25,52 MB
Release : 2020-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0870209280
Coming Out, Moving Forward, the second volume in R. Richard Wagner’s groundbreaking work on gay history in Wisconsin, outlines the challenges that LGBT Wisconsinites faced in their efforts to right past oppressions and secure equality in the post-Stonewall period between 1969 and 2000. During this era, Wisconsin made history as the first state to enact a gay rights law prohibiting discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodations on the basis of sexual orientation. It also became the first state to elect three openly gay/lesbian persons to Congress. In this volume, R. Richard Wagner draws on historical research and materials from his extensive personal archive to not only chronicle an important movement, but also to tell the stories of the state’s LGBT pioneers—from legislators and elected officials to activists, businesspeople, and everyday citizens. Coming Out, Moving Forward documents the rich history of Wisconsin’s LGBT individuals and communities as they pushed back against injustice and found ways to live openly and proudly as themselves. Coming Out, Moving Forward is a continuation to the first volume in this series, We’ve Been Here All Along.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 44,47 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Buffalo County (Wis.)
ISBN :
Author : State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Publisher :
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 45,89 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Wisconsin
ISBN :
V.29 entitled The Attainment of statehood; v.31 entitled California letters of Lucuis Fairchild.
Author : Minnesota Territorial Pioneers (Organization)
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 20,93 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Minnesota
ISBN :
Author : William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi
Publisher : Soyinfo Center
Page : 1462 pages
File Size : 47,75 MB
Release : 2022-05-13
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1948436752
The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographic index. 114 photographs and illustrations - mostly color. Free of charge in digital PDF format.
