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Category : Women
Languages : en
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Famous Wisconsin Women
Author: Famous Wisconsin Women
Author: Women's Wisconsin
Author: Genevieve G. McBridePublisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN: 0870205633
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 509
Book Description
Women'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.
The Story of Wisconsin Women
Author: Ruth Miriam De Young KohlerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780996374408
Category : Wisconsin
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
This is a book written by Ruth De Young Kohler, Chairman of the Committee on Wisconsin Women for the 1948 Wisconsin Centennial. This edition is a reprint of the original book with a new Foreword and Introduction. It tells the stories of many women who have been important to the history of Wisconsin.
Wisconsin Women
Author: State Historical Society of WisconsinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 49
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Wisconsin Women in the War between the States
Author: Ethel HurnPublisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN: 0870206125
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
“There was too much to be done by the most of us, to keep the wolf from the door, to give way to our feelings, and it was better so. It gave us the feeling that we, too, although not enlisted in the ranks South, had a battle to fight at home on more than one line, and the worst of all was to keep up hope against hope, that our loved ones would be spared to come back to us...” As the fiftieth anniversary of the American Civil War neared, the Wisconsin History Commission was established to develop and publish a series of “original papers” on Wisconsin’s role in what was officially called the War of Rebellion. Picked as the sixth selection and published in May 1911 was Wisconsin Women in the War between the States by Ethel Alice Hurn. In many ways it was a landmark effort. It was one of the first formal recognitions—not only in Wisconsin but nationally—of the overlooked and almost forgotten role Northern women played in 1861–1865. The author of the study was Ethel Hurn of Oshkosh, then a student at the University of Wisconsin. Gathering the material for the book proved a daunting task. During the Civil War era women could not vote, hold bank accounts, or take a direct role in business. Nevertheless, in the time of national crisis, women took over farms and shops and other endeavors, and some left quiet family hearths to move onto the public stage. They prepared food, sewed and laundered, knitted socks and gloves, and organized campaigns and fairs as relief efforts that raised millions of dollars to aid wounded soldiers and assist war widows and orphans. However, these women’s work was generally undertaken without thought of keeping a formal record. It could be found only in scattered collections of letters, newspaper files, several interviews, and the brief reports and pamphlets of soldier fairs and soldiers’ aid societies. Wisconsin Women in the War between the States is just as significant today as it was a century ago because it documented an important turning point in the changing role of women in American society. Other scholars have added to the record in the passing years, but Hurn’s groundbreaking book is welcomed back in print during this 150th anniversary of the American Civil War to be discovered and enjoyed as well as to enlighten a new generation of readers.
Women's History
Author: State Historical Society of WisconsinPublisher: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
A narrative guide to the women's history collections at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. It directs researchers to documentation of women's activities that contains resources on political movements for suffrage, temperance and the abolition of women in the motion picture industry.
Calling This Place Home
Author: Joan M. JensenPublisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 0873517288
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
An intimate view of frontier women--Anglo and Indian--and the communities they forged.
Mountain Wolf Woman, Sister of Crashing Thunder
Author: Mountain Wolf WomanPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472061099
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
A classic ethnography of continuing importance
The Story of Wisconsin Women
Author: Ruth Miriam De Young KohlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wisconsin
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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