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Wisconsin: Our State TEXTBOOK 1E spanish
by Bobbie Malone and Kori Oberle
Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2012 Cloth: 978-0-87020-512-5 Library of Congress Classification F581.3.M35 2008 Dewey Decimal Classification 977.5
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
"Wisconsin: Our State, Our Story" brings history to life! Thinking Like a Historian questions in each chapter encourage critical thinking. Scores of artifacts and documents invite students to become eyewitnesses to the past.
Lively, classroom-tested text will engross students. The rich content aligns with relevant, cross-curricular Wisconsin Model Academic Standards. The specially designed Teacher's Edition and Student Activity Guide provide additional tools to reach all learners.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Bobbie Malone, PhD., is the Director of the Office of School Services at the Wisconsin Historical Society. With a master’s degree in elementary education, she taught school for ten years before taking a doctorate in American History. She has authored and edited many student books and teachers guides on Wisconsin history for the state’s classrooms.
Kori Oberle is a historical researcher, writer, and social studies instructional designer who has worked as an educator in museums, historic sites, and for public television. In addition to authoring several publications for teachers and students, she is an Emmy-winning producer of the Cultural Horizons of Wisconsin television series.
REVIEWS
2009 Gold in the Education Category from Independent Publishers Book Awards 2009 Award of Merit from the American Association for State Local History Awards 2009 Silver in the Education Category from ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Awards 2009 Merit Award from the Milwaukee County Historical Society
TABLE OF CONTENTS
[table of contents]
Wisconsin: Our State, Our Story
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Connecting to Our State¿s Story
How Do We Tell Our State¿s Story?
What Does It Mean to Think Like a Historian?
What Kinds of Evidence Do Historians Use?
How Do Historians Use Evidence to Write History?
Chapter 2: Wisconsin: A Place with a Past
A Landscape Shaped over Time: The Ice Age Trail
Locating Wisconsin in the United States
Locating Wisconsin in the World
Using Longitude and Latitude
What Does Wisconsin Look Like Today?
Reshaped by a Long-Ago and Very Cold Past
Glacial Landforms Today
Connected by Water: Wisconsin¿s Waterways
Exploring Wisconsin¿s Five Regions: Lake Superior Lowland
Exploring Wisconsin¿s Five Regions: Northern Highland, Central Plain
Exploring Wisconsin¿s Five Regions: Western Upland, Eastern Ridges and Lowlands
Favorite Places in Wisconsin to Visit
Chapter 3: Wisconsin¿s First People
Native People Today Celebrate Their History and Traditions
Ways to Discover the Long-Ago Past
Mammoths, Mastodons, and Earliest People
Inventions for a New Age: The Archaic Tradition
People of the Woodland: New Ways of Living in a Warmer Wisconsin
The Mysterious Mississippian Tradition
Early Wisconsin Farmers: The Oneota Tradition
Communicating in Many Forms
Changes over Thousands of Years
Chapter 4: The Fur Trade Era: Exploration and Exchange in Wisconsin
Exploring and Learning Today
Native People near the Close of the Old Time
Explorers from Europe Arrive in Wisconsin
Missionaries and Mapmakers
Beavers Mean Business: The French Fur Trade in Wisconsin
Bringing Cultures Together: The Métis Experience
From French to British Control
Same Trade, New Leaders: Americans Take Over
From Forts to Settlement
Changes over Two Hundred Years
Chapter 5: Becoming Wisconsin: From Indian Lands to Territory to Statehood
Wisconsin Lands Change Hands
Treaty Making
Living on the Lead Frontier
The Black Hawk War
Measuring and Mapping Land to Sell
Wisconsin Becomes a Territory
Wisconsin Becomes the 30th State
What Happens at the Wisconsin Capitol?
Looking Back at Our State¿s Beginnings
Chapter 6: They Came to Wisconsin and They¿re Still Coming: Immigration and Settlement
Immigration and Migration: Then and Now
Making the Journey
A Stonemason in Cornwall, England Comes to Mineral Point
Free at Last
A German Farmstead in Washington County
From Finland to Bayfield County
Lucky to Be in America
Bringing Texas North to Wisconsin
Mai Ya¿s Long Journey from Thailand to Wisconsin
Looking Back at Immigration and Settlement in Wisconsin
Chapter 7: Wisconsin and the Civil War
Free States, Slave States, and Fugitive Slaves
Abolitionists in Wisconsin
The Civil War Comes to Wisconsin
Those from Wisconsin Who Fought
Wisconsin Goes to War: Two Stories
Wisconsin Goes to War: Lives Changed
Places to Remember the War
Chapter 8: Lead, Soil, and Sawdust, 1820¿1914
Wisconsin: A Land Rich in Natural Resources
Getting the Minerals Out
Farming to Feed the Family
From One Crop to Many Crops and Many Animals
Learning about Farming in the Past
We Become a Dairy State
From Milking to Marketing
Timber!
From the Woods to the Mills
Lumber, Pulp, and Paper
Learning More about Mining, Farming, and Logging
Chapter 9: Transportation and Industry Change Wisconsin
Wisconsin¿s Changing Landscape
Shipping by Water: From Schooners to Steamers
Shipping by Land: Railroads
Big Industry Leads to Bigger Cities
The Growth of Milwaukee
Engineers and Entrepreneurs
Comparing and Contrasting Wisconsin¿s Top Industries
A New World for Workers
Progressives and Positive Change
Turning Points in Transportation and Industry
Chapter 10: Good Times, Hard Times, and Better Times
Changes in Ways of Living
New Century, New Roads
Vacations for Some
Wisconsin Goes to War: World War I
The Great Depression: Looking for Work and Making Do
Wisconsin Goes to War: World War II
People Return to Peace and Work
Chapter 11: New Opportunities, New Challenges
Wisconsin and the World
Wisconsin Goes to War: Fighting Communism and the Korean War
Suburbs and Interstate Highways
Protecting Our Environment
Organized Sports and Sports Fans
Hunting and Fishing: Wisconsin Traditions
Struggles and Protests for Equal Rights
Wisconsin Goes to War: Vietnam and Protests
Wisconsin Goes to War: The Gulf War and 9/11
Bringing People Together
Chapter 12: A Place with a Future
Taking Care of Our State¿s Story
Saving Our Places and Our Spaces
Protecting Wisconsin¿s Story
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This title is no longer available from this publisher at this time. To let the publisher know you are interested in the title, please email bv-help@uchicago.edu.
Wisconsin: Our State TEXTBOOK 1E spanish
by Bobbie Malone and Kori Oberle
Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2012 Cloth: 978-0-87020-512-5
"Wisconsin: Our State, Our Story" brings history to life! Thinking Like a Historian questions in each chapter encourage critical thinking. Scores of artifacts and documents invite students to become eyewitnesses to the past.
Lively, classroom-tested text will engross students. The rich content aligns with relevant, cross-curricular Wisconsin Model Academic Standards. The specially designed Teacher's Edition and Student Activity Guide provide additional tools to reach all learners.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Bobbie Malone, PhD., is the Director of the Office of School Services at the Wisconsin Historical Society. With a master’s degree in elementary education, she taught school for ten years before taking a doctorate in American History. She has authored and edited many student books and teachers guides on Wisconsin history for the state’s classrooms.
Kori Oberle is a historical researcher, writer, and social studies instructional designer who has worked as an educator in museums, historic sites, and for public television. In addition to authoring several publications for teachers and students, she is an Emmy-winning producer of the Cultural Horizons of Wisconsin television series.
REVIEWS
2009 Gold in the Education Category from Independent Publishers Book Awards 2009 Award of Merit from the American Association for State Local History Awards 2009 Silver in the Education Category from ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Awards 2009 Merit Award from the Milwaukee County Historical Society
TABLE OF CONTENTS
[table of contents]
Wisconsin: Our State, Our Story
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Connecting to Our State¿s Story
How Do We Tell Our State¿s Story?
What Does It Mean to Think Like a Historian?
What Kinds of Evidence Do Historians Use?
How Do Historians Use Evidence to Write History?
Chapter 2: Wisconsin: A Place with a Past
A Landscape Shaped over Time: The Ice Age Trail
Locating Wisconsin in the United States
Locating Wisconsin in the World
Using Longitude and Latitude
What Does Wisconsin Look Like Today?
Reshaped by a Long-Ago and Very Cold Past
Glacial Landforms Today
Connected by Water: Wisconsin¿s Waterways
Exploring Wisconsin¿s Five Regions: Lake Superior Lowland
Exploring Wisconsin¿s Five Regions: Northern Highland, Central Plain
Exploring Wisconsin¿s Five Regions: Western Upland, Eastern Ridges and Lowlands
Favorite Places in Wisconsin to Visit
Chapter 3: Wisconsin¿s First People
Native People Today Celebrate Their History and Traditions
Ways to Discover the Long-Ago Past
Mammoths, Mastodons, and Earliest People
Inventions for a New Age: The Archaic Tradition
People of the Woodland: New Ways of Living in a Warmer Wisconsin
The Mysterious Mississippian Tradition
Early Wisconsin Farmers: The Oneota Tradition
Communicating in Many Forms
Changes over Thousands of Years
Chapter 4: The Fur Trade Era: Exploration and Exchange in Wisconsin
Exploring and Learning Today
Native People near the Close of the Old Time
Explorers from Europe Arrive in Wisconsin
Missionaries and Mapmakers
Beavers Mean Business: The French Fur Trade in Wisconsin
Bringing Cultures Together: The Métis Experience
From French to British Control
Same Trade, New Leaders: Americans Take Over
From Forts to Settlement
Changes over Two Hundred Years
Chapter 5: Becoming Wisconsin: From Indian Lands to Territory to Statehood
Wisconsin Lands Change Hands
Treaty Making
Living on the Lead Frontier
The Black Hawk War
Measuring and Mapping Land to Sell
Wisconsin Becomes a Territory
Wisconsin Becomes the 30th State
What Happens at the Wisconsin Capitol?
Looking Back at Our State¿s Beginnings
Chapter 6: They Came to Wisconsin and They¿re Still Coming: Immigration and Settlement
Immigration and Migration: Then and Now
Making the Journey
A Stonemason in Cornwall, England Comes to Mineral Point
Free at Last
A German Farmstead in Washington County
From Finland to Bayfield County
Lucky to Be in America
Bringing Texas North to Wisconsin
Mai Ya¿s Long Journey from Thailand to Wisconsin
Looking Back at Immigration and Settlement in Wisconsin
Chapter 7: Wisconsin and the Civil War
Free States, Slave States, and Fugitive Slaves
Abolitionists in Wisconsin
The Civil War Comes to Wisconsin
Those from Wisconsin Who Fought
Wisconsin Goes to War: Two Stories
Wisconsin Goes to War: Lives Changed
Places to Remember the War
Chapter 8: Lead, Soil, and Sawdust, 1820¿1914
Wisconsin: A Land Rich in Natural Resources
Getting the Minerals Out
Farming to Feed the Family
From One Crop to Many Crops and Many Animals
Learning about Farming in the Past
We Become a Dairy State
From Milking to Marketing
Timber!
From the Woods to the Mills
Lumber, Pulp, and Paper
Learning More about Mining, Farming, and Logging
Chapter 9: Transportation and Industry Change Wisconsin
Wisconsin¿s Changing Landscape
Shipping by Water: From Schooners to Steamers
Shipping by Land: Railroads
Big Industry Leads to Bigger Cities
The Growth of Milwaukee
Engineers and Entrepreneurs
Comparing and Contrasting Wisconsin¿s Top Industries
A New World for Workers
Progressives and Positive Change
Turning Points in Transportation and Industry
Chapter 10: Good Times, Hard Times, and Better Times
Changes in Ways of Living
New Century, New Roads
Vacations for Some
Wisconsin Goes to War: World War I
The Great Depression: Looking for Work and Making Do
Wisconsin Goes to War: World War II
People Return to Peace and Work
Chapter 11: New Opportunities, New Challenges
Wisconsin and the World
Wisconsin Goes to War: Fighting Communism and the Korean War
Suburbs and Interstate Highways
Protecting Our Environment
Organized Sports and Sports Fans
Hunting and Fishing: Wisconsin Traditions
Struggles and Protests for Equal Rights
Wisconsin Goes to War: Vietnam and Protests
Wisconsin Goes to War: The Gulf War and 9/11
Bringing People Together
Chapter 12: A Place with a Future
Taking Care of Our State¿s Story
Saving Our Places and Our Spaces
Protecting Wisconsin¿s Story
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
