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The Making of Pioneer Wisconsin tells the story of pioneer Wisconsin in the words of those who were there. From the mid 1830s through the 1850s more than a half million people came to the territory and state. Through letters, diaries, newspapers, and other documents, this book lets the men, women, and even children tell their own stories. The writers did not know what their own futures would bring and approached life in this new place with bot...

An unforgettable collection of 174 letters and diary entries written by 92 wisconsin men and women who served in Vietnam. Includes a journal kept by Menasha native Frederic Flom on cigarette wrappers during his final 16 days of captivity -- the only known diary smuggled out by a Vietnam prisoner of war.

Cosponsored by the Association for Documentary Editing and the State Historical Society of Wisconsin

In this powerful and moving memoir, Robert Beecham tells of his Civil War experiences, both as an enlisted man in the fabled Iron Brigade of the Army of the Potomac and as an officer commanding a newly raised African-American unit. Written in 1902, Beecham recounts his war experiences with a keen eye toward the daily life of the soldier, the suffering and brutality of war, and the remarkable acts of valor, by soldiers both black and white, tha...

Unlike most Civil War memoirs, As If It Were Glory does not romanticize the war--it recognizes the valor of the troops, but also the suffering and brutality of war. At the time of these writings, the war had already ended, and Robert Beecham reflects on what he did and the outcome of the war with an honest and intelligent eye. Beecham was also leader of a newly raised African-American unit, which he calls the best and bravest soldiers that eve...

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Cosponsored by the Association for Documentary Editing and the State Historical Society of Wisconsin

Women Remember the War, 1941-1945" offers a brief introduction to the experiences of Wisconsin women in World War II through selections from oral history interviews in which women addressed issues concerning their wartime lives. In this volume, more than 30 women describe how they balanced their more traditional roles in the home with new demands placed on them by the biggest global conflict in history.

This moving documentary volume brings together fourteen interviews of Holocaust survivors who later settled in Wisconsin. With words and photographs they describe the richness of pre-war Jewish life in Europe, the advent of proscriptive laws, arrests, and deportation, the unspeakable horrors of the Nazi camps, and ultimately the liberation and postwar experiences of the survivors.

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. Most of them are "ordinary" people, uprooted from farms, factories, and offices, who took part in extraordinary events. This work explores how war changed their lives and reveals the emotion...