Selecting the most important literature from Wisconsin's rich historical resources, this bibliography provides 3,400 entries on the history of Wisconsin. The book is interdisciplinary, covering titles in economics, political science, sociology, ethnic studies, religion, and social and cultural history, and includes citations from archival resources, monographs, journal articles, dissertations, conference proceedings, local and state historical publications, and reference works. With no comparable bibliography available for Wisconsin, this volume is the only comprehensive, up-to-date bibliography on Wisconsin's 150-year history.
Arranged chronologically, the book includes chapters on prehistory, Indian tribal history, early exploration and settlement, statehood, the Progressive Era, the World Wars and the Depression Era, and the years since 1945. The book also includes a brief chronology.
About the Author: BARBARA DOTTS PAUL is Associate Professor and Librarian at the University of Wisconsin--Stevens Point. She has published two other bibliographies, The Polish-German Borderlands: An Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood, 1994) and The Germans After World War II: An English Language Bibliography (1990). With Justus F. Paul, she coauthored The Badger State: A Documentary History of Wisconsin (1979).
JUSTUS F. PAUL is Professor of History and Dean of the College of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin--Stevens Point. He is the author of The World Is Ours: A History of the University of Wisconsin--Stevens Point, 1894-1994 (1994), Senator Hugh Butler and Nebraska Republicanism (1976) and editor of Selected Writings of Rhys W. Hays (1977). With Barbara J. Paul, he coauthored The Badger State: A Documentary History of Wisconsin (1979).
