A Short History of Wisconsin

A Short History of Wisconsin

by Erika Janik
A Short History of Wisconsin

A Short History of Wisconsin

by Erika Janik

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Overview

Rediscover Wisconsin history from the very beginning. A Short History of Wisconsin recounts the landscapes, people, and traditions that have made the state the multifaceted place it is today. With an approach both comprehensive and accessible, historian Erika Janik covers several centuries of Wisconsin's remarkable past, showing how the state was shaped by the same world wars, waves of new inhabitants, and upheavals in society and politics that shaped the nation.

Swift, authoritative, and compulsively readable, A Short History of Wisconsin commences with the glaciers that hewed the region's breathtaking terrain, the Native American cultures who first called it home, and French explorers and traders who mapped what was once called "Mescousing." Janik moves through the Civil War and two world wars, covers advances in the rights of women, workers, African Americans, and Indians, and recent shifts involving the environmental movement and the conservative revolution of the late 20th century. Wisconsin has hosted industries from fur-trapping to mining to dairying, and its political landscape sprouted figures both renowned and reviled, from Fighting Bob La Follette to Joseph McCarthy. Janik finds the story of a state not only in the broad strokes of immigration and politics, but also in the daily lives shaped by work, leisure, sports, and culture. A Short History of Wisconsin offers a fresh understanding of how Wisconsin came into being and how Wisconsinites past and present share a deep connection to the land itself.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780870204401
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
Publication date: 07/08/2010
Edition description: First Edition, 1
Pages: 264
Sales rank: 311,747
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range: 3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Erika Janik is the author of Odd Wisconsin: Amusing, Perplexing and Unlikely Stories from Wisconsin's Past, published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press. Her work has appeared in Midwest Living, MyMidwest, Wisconsin Trails, the Wisconsin State Journal, Wisconsin Magazine of History, and The Onion. Originally from Redmond, Washington, she now lives in Madison.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1 Geography of Place 5

2 Fortunes Made of Fur 15

3 From Territory to Statehood 23

4 Calling Wisconsin Home 37

5 Lead and Lumber 45

6 Social and Moral Improvement 55

7 Civil War Wisconsin 67

8 Becoming America's Dairyland 75

9 Manufacturing the Future 85

10 The Sporting Life 95

11 Progressive Politics 105

12 World War I 117

13 Changing Habits of Consumption 123

14 Depression 133

15 World War II 141

16 Culture of Fear 149

17 Migration and Civil Rights 157

18 Vietnam 165

19 Greening Wisconsin 171

20 The Changing Face of Immigration 181

21 Indian Treaty Rights 189

22 Postwar Politics and the Conservative Revolution 197

Conclusion Creating Wisconsin 203

Acknowledgments 207

Essay on Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading 209

Index 241

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