Author: Jerry Apps
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Keywords: history, farm, old
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2008-10-07
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0870204068
ISBN-13: 9780870204067

One of the Midwest’s best-loved storytellers shares his most personal story. In Old Farm: A History, bestselling author Jerry Apps combines history, memoir, and call to action as he describes Roshara, the central Wisconsin farm where he and his family have spent more than forty years reaping the benefits of a close relationship to the land. Along with historic photos, maps, and documents, Old Farm features beautiful contemporary photographs by Steve Apps capturing life at Roshara in all seasons, from snow-capped fenceposts to bacon sizzling on the woodstove. This lovely, highly personal bo

Author: Bob Kann
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Keywords: badger, biographies, series, politics, partners, bob, follette, belle
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2008-08-21
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0870204076
ISBN-13: 9780870204074

The most famous couple in Wisconsin politics, "Fighting Bob" La Follette and his wife, Belle Case La Follette, come to life in the pages of the newest addition to the Badger Biographies series for young readers. In an accessible format that includes historic images, a glossary of terms, and sidebars explaining political concepts, students learn about Progressive politics and reform in the early 20th century through the experiences of this pioneering couple. The father of "Progressive politics," Bob La Follette was famous for digging in his heels when it came to reforming government corruption.

Author: Evelyn Fairbanks
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Keywords: minnesota, rondo, days
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1990-03-15
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0873512561
ISBN-13: 9780873512565

Evelyn Fairbanks grew up in the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s along Rondo Avenue--the heart of St. Paul’s largest black neighborhood. Her book tells the warm and human stories she recalls from those years in the then-vibrant community that was doomed to disappear with the coming of the freeways in the 1960s. "It is important for me to tell these stories, because I want others to know some of the people, events, and places that made up my neighborhood."--Evelyn Fairbanks

Author: Vilhelm Moberg
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Keywords: book, novels, emigrant, moberg, vilhelm, emigrants
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1995-09-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0873513193
ISBN-13: 9780873513197

Book One introduces Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson, their 3 young children, and 11 others who make up a resolute party of Swedes fleeing the poverty, religious persecution, and social oppression of Smland in 1850.

Authors:F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dave Page,
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Keywords: fitzgerald, scott, stories, paul
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2004-09-24
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0873515129
ISBN-13: 9780873515122

For his keen social insight, glib sophistication, and breathtaking lyricism, F. Scott Fitzgerald stands as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century. His biographers all note the importance of his boyhood in St. Paul, where, as he put it, he lived in "a house below the average on a street above the average." Fitzgerald?s sensitivity about wealth and position?later made evident in such classics as The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night--was bred of his St. Paul family and associations. F. Scott Fitzgerald?s St. Paul is a city of winter dreams and ice palaces, lakes

Author: Ellen Baumler
Publisher: Montana Historical Society Press
Keywords: tailings, spirit
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2005-05-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0972152245
ISBN-13: 9780972152242

Passed down through generations, these stories illustrate the subtle presence of the past in the everyday lives of modern Montanans.

Author: Frances Densmore
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Keywords: historical, society, minnesota, publications, customs, chippewa
Number of Pages: 218
Published: 1979-10-15
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0873511425
ISBN-13: 9780873511421