Wisconsin (U.S. state)/Bibliography

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Surveys

• Campbell, Henry C. Wisconsin in Three Centuries, 1684-1905 (4 vols., 1906), highly detailed popular history
• James K. Conant. Wisconsin Politics And Government: America's Laboratory of Democracy (2006)
• Richard Current, Wisconsin: A History (2001)
• Larry Gara; A Short History of Wisconsin 1962
• Holmes, Fred L. Wisconsin (5 vols., Chicago, 1946), detailed popular history with many biographies
• Robert C. Nesbit, Wisconsin: A History (rev. ed. 1989)
• Quaife, Milo M. Wisconsin, Its History and Its People, 1634-1924 (4 vols., 1924), detailed popular history & biographies
• Raney, William Francis. Wisconsin: A Story of Progress (1940),
• A. H. Robinson and J. B. Culver, ed., The Atlas of Wisconsin (1974)
• I. Vogeler, Wisconsin: A Geography (1986);
• WPA, Wisconsin: A Guide to the Badger State 1941; detailed guide to every town and city, and cultural history

Detailed scholarly studies

• Anderson, Theodore A. A Century of Banking in Wisconsin (1954)
• Braun, John A Together in Christ: A history of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (2000), 55 pp
• Buenker, John D. The History of Wisconsin. Volume IV The Progressive Era, 1893-1914 (1998), highly detailed history
• Brøndal, Jørn. Ethnic Leadership and Midwestern Politics: Scandinavian Americans and the Progressive Movement in Wisconsin, 1890-1914. University of Illinois Press, 2004 ISBN 0-87732-095-0.
• Bungert, Heike, Cora Lee Kluge, and Robert Ostergren, eds. Wisconsin: German Land and Life. (Madison: Max Kade Institute, 2006. 260 pp. isbn 0-92411-926-8.)
• Butts, Porter. Art in Wisconsin ( Madison, 1936).
• Clark, James I. Education in Wisconsin (1958).
• Cochran, Thomas C. The Pabst Brewing Company (1948), the best history of any brewery
• Mike Corenthal. Illustrated History of Wisconsin Music 1840-1990: 150 Years (1991)
• Richard Nelson Current. History of Wisconsin: The Civil War Era, 1848-1873 (1976) standard state history
• Curti, Merle and Carstensen, Vernon. The University of Wisconsin: A History (2 vols., 1949)
• Curti, Merle. The Making of an American Community A Case Study of Democracy in a Frontier County (1969), in-depth quantitative social history
• Fries, Robert F. Empire in Pine: The Story of Lumbering in Wisconsin, 1830-1900 (1951).
• Paul Geib; "From Mississippi to Milwaukee: A Case Study of the Southern Black Migration to Milwaukee, 1940-1970" The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 83, 1998
• Glad, Paul W. The History of Wisconsin, Volume 5: War, a New Era and Depression, 1914-1940, standard state history
• Haney, Richard C. A History of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin since World War II
• Jensen, Richard. The Winning of the Midwest: Social and Political Conflict, 1888-1896 (1971)
• Lampard, Eric E. The Rise of the Dairy Industry in Wisconsin (1962).
• McBride, Genevieve G. On Wisconsin Women: Working for Their Rights from Settlement to Suffrage
• Herbert F. Margulies; The Decline of the Progressive Movement in Wisconsin, 1890-1920 (1968)
• Merrill, Horace S. William Freeman Vilas: Doctrinaire Democrat (1954) Democratic leader in 1880s and 1890s
• Olson, Frederick I. Milwaukee: At the Gathering of the Waters
• A History of Agriculture in Wisconsin, by Schafer, Joseph (1922)
• Schafer, Joseph. "The Yankee and Teuton in Wisconsin", Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 6, No. 2, Dec. 1922, pp. 125-145, compares Yankee and German settlers
• Still, Bayrd. Milwaukee, the History of a City 1948 online edition
• Thelen, David. Robert M. LaFollette and the Insurgent Spirit 1976.
• Unger, Nancy C. Fighting Bob LaFollette: The Righteous Reformer (2000)

Primary sources

• Wisconsin Electronic Reader full text of many primary source books
• The Badger State: A documentary history of Wisconsin (1979)
• La Follette's Autobiography, a personal narrative of political experiences, 1913