Product Description: This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com)...read more

Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more

Product Description: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Product Description: Although Wisconsin residents gloried in the past, they paid even greater attention to the future. Journalists, scholars, religious leaders, and even schoolteachers offered predictions. Some predictions proved quite accurate, such as increased life expectancy through better medicine, central air conditioning, and air travel, while others, such as free university education for all and communication with Martians, did not...read more

Product Description: A feast for bibliophiles, this beautifully produced and finely illustrated book is an introduction and tribute to the library the eminent American historian Frederick Jackson Turner called "one of the great treasures of the country...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: From its beginnings as the Milwaukee and Mississippi to its years as the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific, the Milwaukee Road's history is chronicled in nostalgic photographs from the collection of The State Historical Society of Wisconsin...read more

Product Description: This volume tells the stories of 62 men and women from Wisconsin who served in the Spanish-American War, World War I, and World War II. Letters from the Front is a vivid social history of wartime as told by those who took part in these foreign conflicts...read more

Product Description: This narrative guide to the superb womens history collections at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin is fully updated and revised, building upon earlier editions published between 1975 and 1982. It directs researchers to documentation of womens activities nationally and in Wisconsin, collections that are especially rich in resources on political movements for womens suffrage, temperance, and abolition and on women in the motion picture and television industries...read more