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  • Sale! Wisconsin and the Civil War

    Wisconsin and the Civil War

    Original price was: $24.99.Current price is: $19.99.

    Wisconsin troops fought and died for the Union on Civil War battlefields across the continent, from Shiloh to Gettysburg. Wisconsin lumberjacks built a dam that saved a stranded Union fleet. The Second Wisconsin Infantry suffered the highest percentage of battle deaths in the Union army. Back home, in a state largely populated by immigrants and…

  • Sale! Wisconsin Army National Guard

    Wisconsin Army National Guard

    Original price was: $24.99.Current price is: $19.99.

    Images of America: Wisconsin Army National Guard is a photographic history containing more than 200 images paired with a descriptive narrative that follows the illustrious story of more than 150 years of wartime service. The book highlights little-known facts about the leaders, soldiers, and units that shaped Wisconsin’s military history. It begins with the Civil…

  • Sale! Wisconsin at Antietam

    Wisconsin at Antietam

    Original price was: $21.99.Current price is: $17.59.

    The Battle of Antietam was the bloodiest day in American history, and Wisconsin played a vital role. The Second, Sixth and Seventh Wisconsin Regiments served in the Iron Brigade, one of the most respected infantries in the Federal army, and fighting by their side in Maryland was the Third Wisconsin. The mettle of the Badger…

  • Sale! Wisconsin Bird Hunting Tales

    Wisconsin Bird Hunting Tales

    Original price was: $23.99.Current price is: $19.19.

    Join author Ken M. Blomberg as he recollects nearly half a century of the hunt in his backyard grouse paradise. Marshaling years of experience, he explains how logging roads often lead to grouse and, just as often, to nowhere. He paints an uplifting portrait of an old hunter dragging his creaky body through unforgiving terrain….

  • Sale! Wisconsin Farm Lore

    Wisconsin Farm Lore

    Original price was: $19.99.Current price is: $15.99.

    It’s well nigh impossible to break into Wisconsin’s history without picking up some respectable dirt in the way of farm lore, country wisdom and undisputed records of agricultural prowess. And when it comes to the Badger State, few people are as familiar with the soil of its stories as Martin Hintz. In his company, tramp…

  • Sale! Wisconsin Legends & Lore

    Wisconsin Legends & Lore

    Original price was: $21.99.Current price is: $17.59.

    A great read for those interested in Wisconsin history as well as those who like a great campfire story, Wisconsin Legends & Lore explores a rich diversity of stories from around the state. Wisconsin is a land rich with stories. It was the mother of all circuses, a place of buried treasure and home to…

  • Sale! Wisconsin Literary Luminaries

    Wisconsin Literary Luminaries

    Original price was: $21.99.Current price is: $17.59.

    From the humble Ingalls family cabin in the woods to Ayad Akhtar’s multicultural conflicts, the Badger State’s stories and imagery have long inspired. Explore how Aldo Leopold and Lorine Niedecker drew on their close observations of the natural world. Contrast the distinct novels that Jane Hamilton and Larry Watson set on Wisconsin apple orchards. Delve…

  • Sale! Wisconsin State Reformatory

    Wisconsin State Reformatory

    Original price was: $24.99.Current price is: $19.99.

    In 1897, the Wisconsin state legislature approved the creation of the Wisconsin State Reformatory on a 200-acre site between Green Bay and De Pere. It was born during a period of profound change when liberal reformers began to question the traditional punitive approach employed in American prisons. The result was a shift from a punishment-based…

  • Sale! Wisconsin Veterans Home at King

    Wisconsin Veterans Home at King

    Original price was: $24.99.Current price is: $19.99.

    The Wisconsin Veterans Home at King, Wisconsin, was incorporated in 1887 by the Wisconsin Department of the Grand Army of the Republic. Initially a retirement home for Civil War veterans and their spouses, the Home slowly evolved into a health care facility as the original members aged and new veterans arrived from World War I….

  • Sale! Wisconsin’s Flying Trees in World War II

    Wisconsin’s Flying Trees in World War II

    Original price was: $24.99.Current price is: $19.99.

    Wisconsin’s trees heard Timberduring World War II, as the forest products industry of the Badger State played a key role in the Allied aerial campaign. It was Wisconsin that provided the material for the De Havilland Mosquito, known as the Timber Terror, while the CG-4A battle-ready gliders, cloaked in stealthy silence, carried the 82nd and…

  • Sale! Witchcraft in Colonial Virginia

    Witchcraft in Colonial Virginia

    Original price was: $21.99.Current price is: $17.59.

    While the Salem witch trials get the most notoriety, Virginia’s witchcraft history dates back many years before that. Colonial Virginians shared a common belief in the supernatural with their northern neighbors. While the witchcraft mania that swept through Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692 was significant, fascination with it has tended to overshadow the historical records of…

  • Sale! Witchcraft in Illinois

    Witchcraft in Illinois

    Original price was: $23.99.Current price is: $19.19.

    For the first time in print, Michael Kleen presents the full story of the Prairie State’s dalliance with the dark arts. Although Illinois saw no dramatic witch trials, witchcraft has been a part of Illinois history and culture from French exploration to the present day. On the Illinois frontier, pioneers pressed silver dimes into musket…

  • Sale! Witches, Wenches & Wild Women of Rhode Island

    Witches, Wenches & Wild Women of Rhode Island

    Original price was: $23.99.Current price is: $19.19.

    Experience the history of Rhode Island and learn about the Ocean State’s most fascinating and wild women. Read of Mercy Brown, a nineteen-year-old consumption victim who was thought to be a vampire and whose body was exhumed and discovered with blood in the heart. There was Goody Seager, accused of infesting her neighbor’s cheese with…

  • Sale! With Grant at Fort Donelson, Shiloh and Vicksburg, and an Appreciation of General U.S. Grant

    With Grant at Fort Donelson, Shiloh and Vicksburg, and an Appreciation of General U.S. Grant

    Original price was: $21.99.Current price is: $17.59.

    In this year of 1915, when the sounds of battle and strife come wafted to us across the sea from Europe, the younger generation are asking questions of the Veterans of the Civil War about their experiences in battle. Formerly I lived in Galena, Ill., and having been personally acquainted with, and a neighbor of…

  • Sale! With Poor Immigrants to America

    With Poor Immigrants to America

    Original price was: $24.95.Current price is: $19.96.

    An Englishman tries to experience the immigration process the way the poor of Russia and Europe do, traveling from NYC to Chicago (often on foot).

  • Sale! Within Fort Sumter

    Within Fort Sumter

    Original price was: $21.99.Current price is: $17.59.

    In December 1860, when the State of South Carolina desired to secede from the Federal Union, Major Anderson, of the 1st Regiment of U.S. Artillery, was in command of the forts of Charleston harbor; and, with his company, was stationed at Fort Moultrie, on Sullivan’s Island. He saw the spreading commotion; andas a Sea-Captain, in…