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Worse than the Devil
Anarchists, Clarence Darrow, and Justice in a Time of Terror Revised Edition
Dean A. Strang

Eclipse of the Assassins
The CIA, Imperial Politics, and the Slaying of Mexican Journalist Manuel Buendía
Russell H. Bartley and Sylvia Erickson Bartley
Fall 2015


Railroaders
Jack Delano’s Homefront Photography
Edited by John Gruber
Fall 2015

A Mysterious Life and Calling
From Slavery to Ministry in South Carolina
Reverend Mrs. Charlotte S. Riley, Edited with an introduction by Crystal J. Lucky, Foreword by Joycelyn K. Moody
Fall 2015

Drift and Mastery
An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest
Walter Lippmann
Spring 2015


Pabst Farms
The History of a Model Farm
John Eastberg
Fall 2014

In a New Century
Essays on Queer History, Politics, and Community Life
John D’Emilio
Spring 2014

Living a Land Ethic
A History of Cooperative Conservation on the Leopold Memorial Reserve
Stephen A. Laubach
Spring 2014

The Cross of War
Christian Nationalism and U.S. Expansion in the Spanish-American War
Matthew McCullough
Spring 2014

Into New Territory
American Historians and the Concept of US Imperialism
James G. Morgan
Spring 2014

A Quiet Corner of the War
The Civil War Letters of Gilbert and Esther Claflin, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, 1862–1863
Gilbert Claflin and Esther Claflin, Edited by Judy Cook
Fall 2013

Worse than the Devil
Anarchists, Clarence Darrow, and Justice in a Time of Terror
Dean A. Strang
Spring 2013

Sister
An African American Life in Search of Justice
Sylvia Bell White and Jody LePage
Spring 2013

Almost Home
A Brazilian American’s Reflections on Faith, Culture, and Immigration
H. B. Cavalcanti
Fall 2012

Against the Tide
Immigrants, Day Laborers, and Community in Jupiter, Florida
Sandra Lazo de la Vega and Timothy J. Steigenga
Fall 2012

Endless Empire
Spain’s Retreat, Europe’s Eclipse, America’s Decline
Edited by Alfred W. McCoy, Josep M. Fradera, and Stephen Jacobson
Fall 2012

Letters Home to Sarah
The Civil War Letters of Guy C. Taylor, Thirty-Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers
Guy C. Taylor, Edited by Kevin Alderson and Patsy Alderson
Fall 2012

Science in Print
Essays on the History of Science and the Culture of Print
Edited by Rima D. Apple, Gregory J. Downey, and Stephen L. Vaughn
Spring 2012

Chicago Whispers
A History of LGBT Chicago before Stonewall
St. Sukie de la Croix
Spring 2012

Screen Nazis
Cinema, History, and Democracy
Sabine Hake
Spring 2012

Proletpen
America’s Rebel Yiddish Poets
Edited by Amelia Glaser and David Weintraub, Translated by Amelia Glaser
Fall 2011

Film and Genocide
Edited by Kristi M. Wilson and Tomás F. Crowder-Taraborrelli
Fall 2011

Back to the Land
The Enduring Dream of Self-Sufficiency in Modern America
Dona Brown
Spring 2011

A Muslim American Slave
The Life of Omar Ibn Said
Omar Ibn Said, Translated from the Arabic, edited, and with an introduction by Ala Alryyes
Spring 2011

For Labor, Race, and Liberty
George Edwin Taylor, His Historic Run for the White House, and the Making of Independent Black Politics
Bruce L. Mouser
Fall 2010

Sawdusted
Notes from a Post-Boom Mill
Raymond Goodwin
Spring 2010

Refuge Denied
The St. Louis Passengers and the Holocaust
Sarah A. Ogilvie and Scott Miller, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Spring 2010

Spirits of Earth
The Effigy Mound Landscape of Madison and the Four Lakes
Robert A. Birmingham
Fall 2009

Policing America’s Empire
The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State
Alfred W. McCoy
Fall 2009

North Woods River
The St. Croix River in Upper Midwest History
Eileen M. McMahon and Theodore J. Karamanski
Fall 2009

Mark Twain’s Own Autobiography
The Chapters from the North American Review
Mark Twain, Edited by Michael J. Kiskis, Foreword by Sheila Leary
Fall 2009

Colonial Crucible
Empire in the Making of the Modern American State
Edited by Alfred W. McCoy and Francisco A. Scarano
Spring 2009

Democracy in Print
The Best of The Progressive Magazine, 1909–2009
Edited by Matthew Rothschild
Spring 2009

Imaginary Friends
Representing Quakers in American Culture, 1650–1950
James Emmett Ryan
Spring 2009

Crunch!
A History of the Great American Potato Chip
Dirk Burhans
Fall 2008


Picturing Indians
Photographic Encounters and Tourist Fantasies in H. H. Bennett's Wisconsin Dells
Steven D. Hoelscher
Fall 2008

Seaway to the Future
American Social Visions and the Construction of the Panama Canal
Alexander Missal
Fall 2008

Unsafe for Democracy
World War I and the U.S. Justice Department’s Covert Campaign to Suppress Dissent
William H. Thomas Jr.
Fall 2008


Bloodstoppers and Bearwalkers
Folk Traditions of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
Richard M. Dorson, Edited and with an introduction by James P. Leary
Spring 2008

With Honor
Melvin Laird in War, Peace, and Politics
Dale Van Atta
Spring 2008

Ireland’s New Worlds
Immigrants, Politics, and Society in the United States and Australia, 1815–1922
Malcolm Campbell
Fall 2007

Margaret Fuller
Transatlantic Crossings in a Revolutionary Age
Edited by Charles Capper and Cristina Giorcelli
Fall 2007

Observing America
The Commentary of British Visitors to the United States, 1890–1950
Robert Frankel
Fall 2006


Madison
The Illustrated Sesquicentennial History, Volume 1, 1856–1931
Stuart D. Levitan
Fall 2006

Women in Print
Essays on the Print Culture of American Women from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Edited by James P. Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand
Spring 2006


Buried Indians
Digging Up the Past in a Midwestern Town
Laurie Hovell McMillin
Spring 2006


Cheese
The Making of a Wisconsin Tradition
Jerry Apps
Spring 2005


Farm Crossing
The Amazing Adventures of Addie and Zachary
Jack Bushnell, Illustrated by Laurie Caple
Spring 2005

Harriet Tubman
The Life and the Life Stories
Jean M. Humez
Spring 2005

The Blind African Slave
Or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace
Jeffrey Brace, as told to Benjamin F. Prentiss, Esq., Edited and with an introduction by Kari J. Winter
Fall 2004

Lords of the Ring
The Triumph and Tragedy of College Boxing’s Greatest Team
Doug Moe
Fall 2004

Walking Shadows
Orson Welles, William Randolph Hearst, and Citizen Kane
John Evangelist Walsh
Fall 2004


An Emotional Gauntlet
From Life in Peacetime America to the War in European Skies
Stuart J. Wright
Fall 2004


Madison
A History of the Formative Years
David V. Mollenhoff
Spring 2004


The Woman in Battle
The Civil War Narrative of Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Cuban Woman and Confederate Soldier
Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Introduction by Jesse Alemán
Fall 2003

Mission Underway
The History of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association and the Popular Culture Movement 1967–2001
Edited, Revised, and Updated by Ray B. Browne
2002

Sundae Best
A History of Soda Fountains
Anne Cooper Funderburg
2002

Theo
An Autobiography
Theodore Bikel
Fall 2002


Young Bob
A Biography of Robert M. La Follette, Jr.
Patrick J. Maney
Fall 2002


A City at War
Milwaukee Labor during World War II
Richard L. Pifer
Fall 2002

A Summer Up North
Henry Aaron and the Legend of Eau Claire Baseball
Jerry Poling
Fall 2002

Purity in Print
Book Censorship in America from the Gilded Age to the Computer Age
Paul S. Boyer
Spring 2002


Strong-Minded Woman
The Story of Lavinia Goodell, Wisconsin’s First Female Lawyer
Mary Lahr Schier
Spring 2002


Wisconsin Then and Now
The Wisconsin Sesquicentennial Rephotography Project
Nicolette Bromberg, With introductory essays by Steven Hoelscher and Thomas R. Vale
Fall 2001

Regional Fictions
Culture and Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Stephanie Foote
Fall 2001


Wisconsin Indians
Nancy Oestreich Lurie
Fall 2001


La Pointe
Village Outpost on Madeline Island
Hamilton Nelson Ross, With a foreword by Thomas Vennum, Jr.
Fall 2000


Chiaroscuro
Essays of Identity
Helen Barolini
Spring 1999


The Oneida Indian Journey
From New York to Wisconsin, 1784–1860
Edited by Laurence M. Hauptman and L. Gordon McLester III, With a Foreword by William T. Hagan and a Preface by Gerald Hill
Spring 1999


When Government Was Good
Memories of a Life in Politics
Henry S. Reuss, With a Foreword by John Kenneth Galbraith
Spring 1999

Silent Witnesses
Representations of Working-Class Women in the United States
Jacqueline Ellis
1998

Who Owns America?
Social Conflict over Property Rights
Edited by Harvey M. Jacobs
Fall 1998


My Generation
Collective Autobiography and Identity Politics
John Downton Hazlett
Spring 1998


The Golden Signpost
A Guide to Happiness and Prosperity
Translated by Colin D. Thomson, Edited by Charlotte Lang Brancaforte
Spring 1998

Recovering Bodies
Illness, Disability, and Life Writing
G. Thomas Couser, Foreword by Nancy Mairs
Fall 1997

American Superrealism
Nathanael West and the Politics of Representation in the 1930s
Jonathan Veitch
Fall 1997


Sickness and Health in America
Readings in the History of Medicine and Public Health
Edited by Judith Walzer Leavitt and Ronald L. Numbers
Spring 1997

Splintered Sisterhood
Gender and Class in the Campaign against Woman Suffrage
Susan E. Marshall
Spring 1997


Chippewa Treaty Rights
The Reserved Rights of Wisconsin's Chippewa Indians in Historical Perspective
Ronald N. Satz, With a Foreword by Rennard Strickland
Spring 1997

Befriending
The American Samaritans
Monica Dickens
1996

Buckeye Schoolmaster
A Chronicle of Midwestern Rural Life, 1853–1865
Edited by J. Merton England
1996

The Healthiest City
Milwaukee and the Politics of Health Reform: Wisconsin Edition
Judith Walzer Leavitt
Fall 1996


Cultural Map of Wisconsin
A Cartographic Portrait of the State
David Woodward, Robert C. Ostergren, Onno Brouwer, Steven Hoelscher, Joshua Hane
Fall 1996

The History of Alta California
A Memoir of Mexican California
Antonio María Osio, Translated, Edited, and Annotated by Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz
Spring 1996


The Grandmothers
A Family Portrait
Glenway Wescott, with a New Introduction by Sargent Bush Jr.
Spring 1996


Witnessing Slavery
The Development of Ante-bellum Slave Narratives
Frances Smith Foster
Spring 1994


On Wisconsin Women
Working for Their Rights from Settlement to Suffrage
Genevieve G. McBride
Fall 1993


Behind the Throne
Servants of Power to Imperial Presidents, 1898–1968
Edited by Thomas J. McCormick and Walter LaFeber
Fall 1993


After Freedom
A Cultural Study in the Deep South
Hortense Powdermaker, With a new Introduction by Brackette P. Williams and Drexel Woodson
Spring 1993

Livin’ the Blues
Memoirs of a Black Journalist and Poet
Frank Marshall Davis, Edited with an Introduction by John Edgar Tidwell
Fall 1992


Race in America
The Struggle for Equality
Edited by Herbert Hill and James E. Jones Jr.
Fall 1992


The Politics of Pensions
A Comparative Analysis of Britain, Canada, and the United States, 1880–1940
Ann Shola Orloff
Fall 1992


A Woman’s Civil War
A Diary with Reminiscences of the War, from March 1862
Cornelia Peake McDonald, Edited with an Introduction by Minrose C. Gwin
Spring 1992


Watch on the Right
Conservative Intellectuals in the Reagan Era
J. David Hoeveler Jr.
Spring 1991


Cane Ridge
America’s Pentecost
Paul K. Conkin
Fall 1990

Journeys in New Worlds
Early American Women’s Narratives
Edited by William L. Andrews, Sargent Bush, Jr., Annette Kolodny, Amy Schrager Lang, and Daniel B. Shea
Fall 1990


God’s Empire
William Bell Riley and Midwestern Fundamentalism
William Vance Trollinger Jr.
Fall 1990


And Sadly Teach
Teacher Education and Professionalization in American Culture
Jurgen Herbst
Fall 1989


Wisconsin
A History
Robert C. Nesbit, Revised and updated by William F. Thompson
Fall 1989


Mixed Blood
Intermarriage and Ethnic Identity in Twentieth-Century America
Paul R. Spickard
Fall 1989

Making the American Home
Middle-Class Women and Domestic Material Culture, 1840–1940
Edited by Marilyn F. Motz and Pat Browne
1988


Pastoral Cities
Urban Ideals and the Symbolic Landscape of America
James L. Machor
Fall 1987

Laws of Our Fathers
Popular Culture and the U.S. Constitution
Edited by Ray B. Browne and Glenn J. Browne
1986

The Fallen Angel
Chastity, Class and Women's Reading, 1835–1880
Sally Mitchell
1981

America
Exploration and Travel
Steven E. Kagel, Editor
1979

Lincoln-Lore
Lincoln in the Popular Mind
Edited by Ray B. Browne
1974

Black Moses
The Story of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association
E. David Cronon, With a Foreword by John Hope Franklin
1955
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