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A Mind of Her Own
A Mind of Her Own: Helen Connor Laird and Family 1888–1982 captures the public achievement and private pain of a remarkable Wisconsin woman and her family, whose interests and influence extended well beyond the borders of the state. Spanning almost a century, the history speaks to the way we were and are: a stridently materialistic nation with a deep and persistent spiritual component.
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Woman in the Wilderness
Woman in the Wildernessis a collection of letters written between 1832 and 1892 to and by an American woman, Harriet Wood Wheeler.Harriet's letters reveal her experiences with actors and institutions that played pivotal roles in the history of American women: the nascent literate female work force at the mills in Lowell, Massachusetts; the Ipswich Female Seminary, which was one of the first schools for women teachers; women's associations, especially in churches; and the close and enduring ties that characterized women's relationships in the late nineteenth century.Harriet's letters also provide an intimate view of the relationships between American Indians and Euro-Americans in the Great Lakes region, where she settled with her Christian missionary husband.
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Wisconsin's 37 : the lives of those missing in action in the Vietnam War
\"Thirty-seven of those missing in action were from Wisconsin. Their names appear on the largest object--a motorcycle (now part of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection)--ever left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Using the recollections of the soldiers' families, friends and fellow servicemen, the author tells the story of each man's life\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Les Belges du Wisconsin
L'odyssee des emigrants belges au Wisconsin au milieu du XIXe siecle Les hautes forets qui couvrent le pays ont un aspect qui, de prime abord, peut en faire considerer le defrichement comme impossible, tant les arbres y sont epais et gigantesques (...) se croisant en tous sens et formant des masses presque impenetrables. Tel est le decor qui attend les quelques milliers d'emigrants belges qui, entre 1853 et 1856, fuient la misere des campagnes brabanconnes et hesbignonnes, et tentent l'aventure americaine dans le nord-est du Wisconsin. Apres l'enfer de l'entrepont et les pieges des trafiquants de passagers , ceux qui s'astreignent au defrichement ne sont pas au bout de leurs peines. Ils connaitront un des pires incendies de foret de l'histoire des Etats-Unis, et certains d'entre eux seront entraines dans la guerre de Secession. Mais a force de courage et de perseverance, et parfois avec l'aide des sovadjes (sauvages, comme ils appellent les Indiens), ils parviendront au bien-etre qu'ils ne pouvaient atteindre en Belgique. Aujourd'hui, leurs descendants constituent la plus grande communaute d'origine belge aux USA. Ils preservent un heritage fait de details architecturaux, de recettes de cuisine et de quelques mots de patois wallon.Un ouvrage passionnant qui retrace au travers de nombreux temoignages l'aventure americaine de milliers de Belges a la recherche d'un Eldorado !EXTRAITNew York ! Un premier, un enorme soulagement pour tous les emigrants. Dans le recit de son voyage en decembre 1849, lorsqu'il accompagnait, a la demande du gouvernement belge, le premier groupe d'emigrants en route pour la colonie subsidiee de Sainte-Marie, en Pennsylvanie, le chirurgien-major N. Reiss rapporte : Enfin (...) on vit terre du haut des mats. Le lendemain de grand matin, le pilote vint a bord. Les passagers etaient tous sur le pont. Tous les regards etaient diriges vers les hauteurs que l'on vit poindre a l'horizon. Mais la brise etait faible, nous avancames lentement. Dans l'apres-dinee des bateaux a vapeur-remorqueurs voltigerent d'une maniere agacante autour de nous, enfin apres de longs debats, l'un d'eux s'attella au navire. Un hourra vigoureux, trois fois repete par tous nos emigrants, salua cet heureux evenement, et le soleil etait a peine couche, que nous penetrames au milieu de la flotte marchande, qui en rangs serres, longe les quais de New-York. A PROPOS DE L'AUTEURJournaliste de formation, Daniel Dellisse travaille actuellement dans la presse syndicale apres avoir collabore pendant onze ans au journal Le Soir. Son interet pour l'histoire de l'emigration l'a conduit aux Etats-Unis a quatre reprises, au Wisconsin mais aussi a New York et dans la region des Grands Lacs.
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Montaigne in barn boots : an amateur ambles through philosophy
Written in a spirit of exploration rather than declaration, Montaigne in Barn Boots is a down-to-earth (how do you pronounce that last name?) look into the ideas of a philosopher \"ensconced in a castle tower overlooking his vineyard,\" channeled by a Midwestern American writing \"in a room above the garage overlooking a disused pig pen.\" Whether grabbing an electrified fence, fighting fires, failing to fix a truck, or feeding chickens, Perry draws on each experience to explore subjects as diverse as faith, race, sex, aromatherapy, and Prince. But he also champions academics and aesthetics, in a book that ultimately emerges as a sincere, unflinching look at the vital need to be a better person and citizen.
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With Honor
In 1968, at the peak of the Vietnam War, centrist Congressman Melvin Laird (R-WI) agreed to serve as Richard Nixon’s secretary of defense. It was not, Laird knew, a move likely to endear him to the American public—but as he later said, “Nixon couldn’t find anybody else who wanted the damn job.” For the next four years, Laird deftly navigated the morass of the war he had inherited. Lampooned as a “missile head,” but decisive in crafting an exit strategy, he doggedly pursued his program of Vietnamization, initiating the withdrawal of U.S. military personnel and gradually ceding combat responsibilities to South Vietnam. In fighting to bring the troops home faster, pressing for more humane treatment of POWs, and helping to end the draft, Laird employed a powerful blend of disarming Midwestern candor and Washington savvy, as he sought a high moral road bent on Nixon’s oft-stated (and politically instrumental) goal of peace with honor. The first book ever to focus on Laird’s legacy, this authorized biography reveals his central and often unrecognized role in managing the crisis of national identity sparked by the Vietnam War—and the challenges, ethical and political, that confronted him along the way. Drawing on exclusive interviews with Laird, Henry Kissinger, Gerald Ford, and numerous others, author Dale Van Atta offers a sympathetic portrait of a man striving for open government in an atmosphere fraught with secrecy. Van Atta illuminates the inner workings of high politics: Laird’s behind-the-scenes sparring with Kissinger over policy, his decisions to ignore Nixon’s wilder directives, his formative impact on arms control and health care, his key role in the selection of Ford for vice president, his frustration with the country’s abandonment of Vietnamization, and, in later years, his unheeded warning to Donald Rumsfeld that “it’s a helluva lot easier to get into a war than to get out of one.” Best Books for Regional Special Interests, selected by the American Association of School Librarians, and Best Books for Special Interests, selected by the Public Library Association
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Dime Novel Desperadoes
A thrilling true crime narrative and groundbreaking historical account, Dime Novel Desperadoes recovers the long-forgotten story of Ed and Lon Maxwell, the outlaw brothers from Illinois who once rivaled Jesse and Frank James in national notoriety. Growing up hard as the sons of a struggling tenant farmer, the Maxwell brothers started their lawbreaking as robbers and horse thieves in the 1870s, embarking on a life of crime that quickly captured the public eye._x000B__x000B_Already made famous locally by newspapers that wanted to dramatize crimes and danger for an eager reading audience, the brothers achieved national prominence in 1881 when they shot and killed Charles and Milton Coleman, Wisconsin lawmen who were trying to apprehend them. Public outrage sparked the largest manhunt for outlaws in American history, involving some twenty posses who pursued the desperadoes in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, and Nebraska. Some of the pursuers were intent on a lynching, but the outlaws escaped against incredible odds. When a mob finally succeeded in killing Ed, in broad daylight on a courthouse lawn, that event generated widespread commentary on law and order. Nevertheless, the daring desperadoes were eventually portrayed as heroes in sensationalistic dime novels._x000B__x000B_A stunning saga of robbery and horse stealing, gunfights and manhunts, murder and mob violence, Dime Novel Desperadoes also delves into the cultural and psychological factors that produced lawbreakers and created a crime wave in the post-Civil War era. By pointing to social inequities, media distortions, and justice system failures, John E. Hallwas reveals the complicity of nineteenth-century culture in the creation of violent criminals. Further, by featuring astute, thought-provoking analysis of the lawbreaker's mindset, this book explores the issue at the heart of humanity's quest for justice: the perpetrator's responsibility for his criminal acts._x000B__x000B_Every overview and encyclopedia of American outlaws will need to be revised, and the fabled \"Wild West\" will have to be extended east of the Mississippi River, in response to this riveting chronicle of major American desperadoes who once thrilled the nation but have since escaped historical attention for well over a century. With more than forty illustrations and several maps that bring to life the exciting world of the Maxwell brothers, Dime Novel Desperadoes is a new classic in the annals of American outlawry.
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