"The Living Great Lakes" is the most complete book ever written about the history, nature, and science of the remarkable lakes at the heart of North America. From the geological forces that formed them to the industrial atrocities that nearly destroyed them, to the greatest environmental success stories of our time, the lakes are portrayed in all t more...
Lost Chicago explores the architecture and cultural history of one of America's greatest cities, a city whose architectural heritage was recklessly squandered during the second half of the 20th century. David Garrard Lowe's elegant, lively prose and over 270 rare photographs and prints, many of them published here for the first time, illumi more...
From schooners to submarines, Manitowoc has been home to shipbuilders and their craft for over 200 years. Thanks to the vast collections of the Wisconsin Maritime Museum, Maritime Manitowoc: 1847-1947 uncovers the fascinating and colorful Golden Age of shipbuilding in the area. This book explores the remarkable history of Manitowoc's shipyar more...
"Mice in the Freezer, Owls on the Porch" is in many ways a love story about a quiet scientist and his flamboyant wife, but also about their passions for wild lands, for hunting, and for the grouse and raptor species that they helped bring back from the brink of extinction. more...
St. Croix Valley Civil War Round Table 1866, Reprinted in 2000.
Almost as soon as the cannonballs began fllying over Fort Sumter, Edwin Quiner systematically began collecting accounts of the great national cataclysm. Quiner was in a unique position to do so. A Madison journalist and printer with an interest in history, he had already been publish
Moon Wisconsin's Door County offers focused travel information and the unique perspective of travel writer Thomas Huhti. In this easy-to-carry guide, you'll find sightseeing highlights, handy maps, and shopping, restaurant, and hotel recommendations. Packed with great ideas and advice, Moon Wisconsin's Door County is all you'll need more...
Stories about people, places, and events that contributed to the Peninsula's history. People like Cooney Fish, who lived at the dump, Charles Martin, the Peninsula's first historian, Dorothy Halvorsen, a Norwegian and proud of it. Places like Foscoro which lived and died with the lumber boom, Norz' General Store, a fixture in Fish Creek for many ye more...
"Things began as they usually did: Someone shot someone else." So begins a chapter of Michael Lesy's disturbingly satisfying account of Chicago in the 1920s, the epicenter of murder in America. A city where daily newspapers fell over one another to cover the latest mayhem. A city where professionals and amatures alike snuffed each other out, and of more...
Beneath the keels of the giant modern lakeboats that crawl the distant horizon, the lake bottoms are littered with the bones of shipwreck history. more...