Motherhood on the Wisconsin Frontier
Author: Lillian Krueger
Publisher:
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 28
ISBN-13:
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Calling This Place Home
Author: Joan M. Jensen
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Published: 2009-08
Total Pages: 519
ISBN-13: 0873517288
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn intimate view of frontier women--Anglo and Indian--and the communities they forged.
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
Author: Adrienne Rich
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2021-04-27
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 039386734X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe pathbreaking investigation into motherhood and womanhood from an influential and enduring feminist voice, now for a new generation. In Of Woman Born, originally published in 1976, influential poet and feminist Adrienne Rich examines the patriarchic systems and political institutions that define motherhood. Exploring her own experience—as a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mother—she finds the act of mothering to be both determined by and distinct from the institution of motherhood as it is imposed on all women everywhere. A “powerful blend of research, theory, and self-reflection” (Sandra M. Gilbert, Paris Review), Of Woman Born revolutionized how women thought about motherhood and their own liberation. With a stirring new foreword from National Book Critics Circle Award–winning writer Eula Biss, the book resounds with as much wisdom and insight today as when it was first written.
A Settler's Year
Author: Kathleen Ernst
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
Published: 2015-07-31
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 0870207156
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This is a book with great meaning for those of us who grew up on farms, and a book to be shared with young people eager to know more about pioneer life." --Jerry Apps, author of "Old Farm: A History" and "Whispers and Shadows: A Naturalist's Memoir" "A Settler's Year" provides a rare glimpse into the lives of early immigrants to the upper Midwest. Evocative photographs taken at Old World Wisconsin, the country's largest outdoor museum of rural life, lushly illustrate stories woven by historian, novelist, and poet Kathleen Ernst and compelling firsthand accounts left by the settlers themselves. In this beautiful book, readers will discover the challenges and triumphs found in the seasonal rhythms of rural life in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As they turn the pages--traveling from sprawling farm to tidy crossroads village, and from cramped and smoky cabins to gracious, well-furnished homes--they'll experience the back-straining chores, cherished folk traditions, annual celebrations, and indomitable spirit that comprised pioneer life. At its heart "A Settler's Year" is about people dreaming of, searching for, and creating new homes in a new land. This moving book transports us back to the pioneer era and inspires us to explore the stories found on our own family trees.
Women's Wisconsin
Author: Genevieve G. McBride
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
Published: 2014-05-20
Total Pages: 509
ISBN-13: 0870205633
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWomen's Wisconsin: From Native Matriarchies to the New Millennium, a women's history anthology published on Women's Equality Day 2005, made history as the first single-source history of Wisconsin women. This unique tome features dozens of excerpts of articles as well as primary sources, such as women's letters, reminiscences, and oral histories, previously published over many decades in the Wisconsin Magazine of History and other Wisconsin Historical Society Press publications. Editor and historian Genevieve G. McBride provides the contextual commentary and overarching analysis to make the history of Wisconsin women accessible to students, scholars, and lifelong learners.
Wisconsin
Author: Robert Carrington Nesbit
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 660
ISBN-13: 9780299108045
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRobert Nesbit's classic single-volume history of Wisconsin was expanded by Wisconsin State Historian William F. Thompson to include the period from 1940 to the late 1980s, along with updated bibliographies and appendices. First paperback edition.
The Hidden Half of the Family
Author: Christina K. Schaefer
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780806315829
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers information on finding female ancestors in each state, highlighting those laws, both federal and state, that indicate when a woman could own real estate in her own name, devise a will, and enter into contracts. In addition, entries contain information on marriage and divorce law, immigration, citizenship, passports, suffrage, and slave manumission. Material is included on African American, Native American, and Asian American women, as well as patterns of European immigration. Period covered is from the 1600s to the outbreak of WWII. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Woman in the Trees
Author: Theoni Bell
Publisher:
Published: 2021-12-14
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781505123784
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSet within the expanses of the American frontier, this story follows Slainie, an inquisitive pioneer girl, whose life is forever transformed when a mysterious seer shows up at her door. Amidst the backdrop of the Civil War, family tragedy, and the nation's most destructive wildfire, Slainie must navigate her rugged pioneer life as she encounters love and loss, and comes face to face with the story of America's first approved Marian apparition.
Their Frontier Family
Author: Lyn Cote
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-10-30
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 0373829396
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo one is more surprised than Sunny Licht when Noah Whitmore proposes. She's a scarlet woman and an unwed mother—an outcast even in her small Quaker community. But she can't resist Noah's offer of a fresh start in a place where her scandalous past is unknown. In Sunny, the former Union soldier sees a woman whose loneliness matches his own. When they arrive in Wisconsin, he'll see that she and her baby daughter want for nothing…except the love that war burned out of him. Yet Sunny makes him hope once more—for the home they're building, and the family he never hoped to find.
Wisconsin Quilts
Author: Ellen Kort
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2008-05-30
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 1440221243
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides a new "state" quilt books to add to your collection, while you enjoy the projects and historical inspiration it provides Only book to cover quilts documented by the Wisconsin Quilt History Project - part of a nationwide effort to preserve quilting Storytelling - is as old as humanity, and quilting is among the most prolific mediums. Wisconsin Quilts brings readers 100 antique quilts stitched by immigrants between the 1800s and the mid-20th century, through times of war, economic development and depression, with continued perseverance. You will learn about the history of the day, and gain information about 10 of the quilt blocks used to create each the various quilts featured.
