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This site will not attempt to provide a complete history of Wisconsin. A good bibliography of published histories of Wisconsin will be found at the Bibliography Tab.

Please note:

Under Comprehensive References will be found all comprehensive histories of Wisconsin, regardless of their quality, size, or date. Also listed there are various collections of materials that address Wisconsin history.

Under Major and Minor References will be found all historical material related to Wisconsin that is not reference at another topic on this Site. The distinction between Major and Minor is arbitrary, and may not always be consistent.

Subtopics of Wisconsin History will be added here when they are of general interest to the webmasters and do not fit elsewhere in the topic structure of this webpage.

Charles P. Forbes
July 25, 2012

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Major References

****. History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago, 1881. View Full Entry
****. Wisconsin Magazine of History. Madison, . View Full Entry (Full text available)
****. Wisconsin Writers. [Badger History. V.26 #1 Sept 1972] Madison, 1972. View Full Entry
****. Wisconsin. [CD (Anthology of Wisconsin History Books)] Clarkston, GA, 2117. View Full Entry
****. Wisconsin Tales and Trails Magazine. Madison, . View Full Entry
Austin, H. Russell. Wisconsin Story. Milwaukee, 1964. View Full Entry
Balousek, Marv. Wisconsin Heroes. Oregon, WI, 1995. View Full Entry
Bates, Paul, Karen and Tom. Collector's Guide to Wisconsin Bottles. [Interactive Book from the Collectibles Database] Goodlettsville, TN, 1990. View Full Entry
Buenker, John. The Progressive Era, 1893-1914. [The History of Wisconsin, Volume IV] Madison, 1998. View Full Entry
Buss, Jerry. Krueger Affair, The. Oregon, WI, 1988. View Full Entry
Campbell, Harry. Wisconsin in Three Centuries, 1634-1905. [Four Volumes, all contained on the CD "Wisconsin" which is number 2119 in this bibliography] New York, 1906. View Full Entry
Chase, et al.. Famous Wisconsin Women. Madison, 1971. View Full Entry
Clark, James. Chronicles of Wisconsin. Madison, 1956. View Full Entry
Cullen, Tim. Ringside Seat. [Second Printing, 2016] Mineral Point, 2016. View Full Entry
Dunn and Lewis, Eds.. We Were Children Then, Volume II: Stories from the Yarns of Yesteryear Project. Madison, 1982. View Full Entry
English and Calhoun. Wisconsin Story. Oklahoma City, 1992. View Full Entry
Gard, et al.. We Were Children Then: Stories from the Yarns of Yesteryear Project. Madison, 1976. View Full Entry
Glad, Paul. War, a New Era, and Depression, 1914-1940. [This History of Wisconsin, Volume V] Madison, 1990. View Full Entry
Graffagnino, J. Kevin. Wisconsin Fifteen. Madison, 1998. View Full Entry
Haas, Chad. American Success Story in Perseverance. [Soda Spectrum, Issue 89, 2020, pp. 28-34] Mount Albert, Ontario, 2020. View Full Entry
Hebberd, S. S.. History of Wisconsin Under the Dominion of France. [Contained on the CD "Wisconsin" which is number 2119 in this bibliography] Madison, 1890. View Full Entry
Janik, Erika. Short History of Wisconsin. Madison, 2010. View Full Entry
Kanetzke, Howard, Ed.. Circus in Wisconsin. [Badger History, Vol. XXX, #3, Jan. 1977] Madison, 1977. View Full Entry
Kanetzke, Howard, Ed.. Early Wisconsin Industry. [Badger History, 1967] Madison, 1967. View Full Entry
Kanetzke, Howard, Ed.. Ethnic Groups in Wisconsin. [Badger History, Vol. XXIV, #1, Sept. 1970] Madison, 1970. View Full Entry
Kanetzke, Howard, Ed.. Hispanics in Wisconsin. [Badger History, Vol. XXXIII, #3, Jan, 1980] Madison, 1980. View Full Entry
Kanetzke, Howard, Ed. Norwegians in Wisconsin. [Badger History, Vol. XXVIII, #3, Jan. 1975] Madison, 1975. View Full Entry
Kanetzke, Howard, Ed.. Twentieth Century Industry. [Badger History, Vol. XXIV #4, March, 1971] Madison, 1971. View Full Entry
Kanetzke, Howard, Ed.. Urban Life: City Development. [Badger History, Vol. XXIII, #2, Nov. 1969] Madison, 1969. View Full Entry
Kanetzke, Howard, Ed.. Wisconsin Architecture. [Badger History, Vol. XXII, #1, Sept. 1968] Madison, 1968. View Full Entry
Kanetzke, Howard, E. Wisconsin Inventors. [Badger History, Vol. XXIII, #4, May, 1970] Madison, 1970. View Full Entry
Kanetzke, Howard, Ed.. Wisconsin Negroes. [Badger History, Vol. XXII, #2, Nov. 1968] Madison, 1968. View Full Entry
Kanetzke, Howard, Ed.. Wisconsin and the Arts. [Badger History, Vol.XXI, #4, March, 1968] Madison, 1968. View Full Entry
Kenetzke, Howard, Ed.. Poles in Wisconsin. [Badger History, Vol. XXXII, #3, Jan. 1979] Madison, 1979. View Full Entry
Legler, Henry. Leading Events on Wisconsin History. [Contained on the CD "Wisconsin" which is number 2119 in this bibliography] Milwaukee, 1898. View Full Entry
Muir, John. Story of My Boyhood and Youth. Boston, 1913. View Full Entry (Full text available)
Nesbit, Robert. Wisconsin: A History. [Second Edition Revised and Updated by William F. Thompson] Madison, 1989. View Full Entry
Olsenius and Zerby. Guide to the History Along Wisconsin's Highways. Wayzata, MN, 1983. View Full Entry
Peirce and Keefe. Great Lakes States of America. [Part of a series of books (Listed in the Forward) which describe all fifty states.] New York, 1980. View Full Entry
Raney, William. Wisconsin, A Story of Progress. Appleton, 1970. View Full Entry
Risjord, Norman. Ten Events that Shaped Wisconsin's History. [Wisconsin Blue Book, 1999-2000, P. 99ff] Madison , 1999. View Full Entry
Settlement Cook Book Co.. Settlement Cook Book. [Newly Revised and Enlarged, 3rd. Edition. 33rd Edition of the original.] New York, 1976. View Full Entry (Full text available)
Shafer, Mary. Wisconsin: The Way We Were. Minocqua, 1993. View Full Entry
Smith, Alice. From Exploration to Statehood. [The History of Wisconsin, Volume I] Madison, 1985. View Full Entry
Smith and Callahan. Making of Wisconsin. [Revised and Enlarged Edition] Eau Claire, 2027. View Full Entry
Smith, William. The History of Wisconsin in Three Parts. [Three Volumes contained on the CD "Wisconsin" which is number 2119 in this bibliography] Madison, 1854. View Full Entry
Stein and Marley. More Than They Bargained For. Madison, 2013. View Full Entry
Thompson, William. Continuity and Change, 1940-1965.. [The History of Wisconsin, Volume VI] Madison, 1988. View Full Entry
Thwaites, Ruben. Stories of the Badger State. [Contained on the CD "Wisconsin" which is number 2119 in this bibliography] New York, 1900. View Full Entry
Thwaites, Ruben. Story of Wisconsin. [Contained on the CD "Wisconsin" which is number 2119 in this bibliography. The original volume is from the series, "The Story of the States."] Boston, 1890. View Full Entry
Wells, Robert W.. Milwaukee Journal. Milwaukee, 1981. View Full Entry
Wisconin Cartographers' Guild. Wisconsin's Past and Present: A Historical Atlas. Madison, 1998. View Full Entry
Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. Transactions. Madison, 1870. View Full Entry (Full text available)
Wisconsin, Historical Records Advisory Board. Planning to Preserve Wisconsin's History: The Archival Perspective.. Madison, 1983. View Full Entry

Minor References

****. Wisconsin Trails Magazine. Madison, . View Full Entry
Gard and Sorden. Romance of Wisconsin Place Names. [A Wisconsin House Book] New York, 1968. View Full Entry
Gibbon, David, designer; Ted Smart, Producer. Wisconsin A Picture Book to Remember Her By. New York, 1978. View Full Entry
Legler, Henry. Origin and Meaning of Wisconsin Place-Names. [Transactions of the WI Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, Vol. XIV, Part 1. 1902] 1952. View Full Entry (Full text available)
Lesy, Michael. Wisconsin Death Trip. NY, 1973. View Full Entry
Stevens, Michael, ed.. Yesterday's Future, The Twentieth Century Begins. [Voices of the Wisconsin Past] Madison, 1999. View Full Entry
Wisconsin, State Historical Society of. Wisconsin Calendar, 1982. Madison, 1981. View Full Entry
Wisconsin, State Historical Society of. Wisconsin Calendar/1983. Madison, 1982. View Full Entry
Wisconsin, State Historical Society of. Wisconsin Historical Calendar, 1990. Madison, 1989. View Full Entry

LEINENKUGEL BEER

Leinenkugel Brewing Company of Chippewa Falls is the 7th oldest brewing company still operating in the United States, have begun in 1867. It survived during prohibition by selling soft drinks, in particular the brand, Mt. Cabin. The brewery's story, with emphasis on its soft drink operations during prohibition (with multiple illustrations of its advertising) is told in "An American Success Story in Perseverance, How Leinenkugel Brewing Company Survived Prohibition (1919-1933). It merged with MillersCoors in 1988.