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Romance of Wisconsin Place Names
Fifty years ago, educator and writer Robert E. Gard traveled across Wisconsin, learning the trivial, controversial, and landmark stories behind how cities, counties, and local places got their names. This volume records the fruits of Gard’s...Regular price $19.95Quick view -
Saving Our Sturgeon: Protecting Wisconsin's Ancient Fish
The story of a fascinating fish and the forward-thinking people who saved them in Wisconsin For millennia, sturgeon swam the waterways of Wisconsin. Before the 1800s, an estimated eleven million sturgeon lived in Lake Michigan alone....Regular price $20.00Quick view -
Schusters & Gimbels
For well over a century, Milwaukee shoppers have had Gimbels or Schuster's on the brain. Even if they didn't crave sewing notions or prize-winning apple pies, they were watching holiday parades wind by, tuning in for...Regular price $21.99Quick view -
Sherman Park: A Legacy of Diversity in Milwaukee
Sherman Park residents blazed integration trails ahead of the slow progress of Greater Milwaukee and the country. Racial tensions and violence in the South drove nearly thirty thousand African Americans north to Milwaukee in the 1960s....Regular price $19.99Quick view -
Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes
The newest addition to Globe Pequot’s Shipwrecks series covers the sensational wrecks and maritime disasters from each of the five Great Lakes. It is estimated that over 30,000 sailors have lost their lives in Great Lakes...Regular price $19.95Quick view -
Shorewood
From its earliest settlers in 1835 to independence from Milwaukee in 1900, the Village of Shorewood hasheralded itself as "tall in stature and big in heart." Nestled between the Milwaukee River on the west and Lake...Regular price $24.99Quick view