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Randall Davidson provides a comprehensive history of the innovative work of Wisconsin's educational radio stations. Beginning with the first broadcast by experimental station 9XM at the University of Wisconsin, followed by WHA, through the state-owned affiliate WLBL, to the network of stations that in the years following WWII formed the Wisconsin Public Radio network, Davidson describes how, with homemade equipment and ideas developed from scratch,...
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A Handbook of Scandinavian Names includes a dictionary of more than fifteen hundred given names from Norway, Sweden,
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2008.
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xiv, 221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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One of the Midwest's best-loved authors tells the story of his land, from the last great glacier that dug out its valleys and formed its hills to his own family's forty-year relationship with the beloved farm they call Roshara. The author chronicles his family's efforts to restore an old granary, develop a productive vegetable garden, manage the woodlots, reestablish a prairie, and enjoy nature's sounds and silences. Color photographs highlight the...
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[2018]
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xviii, 418 pages ; 24 cm
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"WHS Press and the Wisconsin Coastal Management Program (WCMP) are collaborating on this anthology of articles from 17 years of the Wisconsin Great Lakes Chronicle. The book, which includes an introduction by WCMP manager Mike Friis and a foreword by Governor Scott Walker, will make a significant contribution to state residents' understanding of the importance of water and will encourage the preservation and care of the Great Lakes. The articles feature...
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"The first comprehensive history of Native American tribes in Wisconsin, this thorough and eminently readable account follows Wisconsin's Indian communities - Ojibwa, Potawatomie, Menominee, Winnebago, Oneida, Stockbridge-Munsee, and Ottawa - from the 1600s through 1960. Written for students and general readers, it covers in detail the ways that native communities have striven to shape and maintain their traditions in the face of enormous external...
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1998.
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xv, 123 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 32 cm
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"Despite Wisconsin's rich history, no historical atlas has been produced in the state since 1878. Wisconsin's Past and Present: A Historical Atlas, created by the Wisconsin Cartographers' Guild, has filled this void with a fascinating and colorful portrait of the state's complex development. This guide, produced to mark 150 years of statehood, provides a lasting resource for map lovers and history buffs, and for everyone interested in Wisconsin's...
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