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Home of the Braves - Patrick Steele - Bog - University of Wisconsin Press - Plusbog.dk

Home of the Braves - Patrick Steele - Bog - University of Wisconsin Press - Plusbog.dk

Winner of the Gambrinus Prize from the Milwaukee County Historical SocietyIn March 1953, the Boston Braves relocated to Milwaukee. They soon found success with stars like Hank Aaron and Eddie Mathews. The team began drawing bigger crowds than almost any other and went on to win two pennants and a World Series within five years. To fans, it was the dawn of a new dynasty-making it even more of a shock when the owners announced in October 1964 that the Braves would move once again, this time to Atlanta. Patrick Steele examines all facets of the story to understand why the "Milwaukee Miracle" went south.

DKK 324.00
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Sister - Sylvia Bell White - Bog - University of Wisconsin Press - Plusbog.dk

Sister - Sylvia Bell White - Bog - University of Wisconsin Press - Plusbog.dk

Raised in a part of the segregated South that provided no school for African American children, Sylvia Bell White went North as a teenager, dreaming of a nursing career and a freedom defined in part by wartime rhetoric about American ideals. In Milwaukee she and her brothers persevered through racial rebuffs and discrimination to find work. Barred from the city's factories, Sylvia took adult education courses, scrubbed floors, worked as a nurse's aide. When a Milwaukee police officer killed her younger brother Daniel Bell in 1958, the Bell family suspected a racial murder but could do nothing to prove it -until twenty years later, when one of the two officers involved in the incident unexpectedly came forward. Daniel's siblings, led by Sylvia, filed a civil rights lawsuit against the city and ultimately won a four-year battle that played out in both courtroom and media. Telling her story in these pages, Sylvia emerges as a powerful witness, buoyant spirit, and sparkling narrator. Jody LePage's chapter introductions frame Sylvia's words in a historical span that reaches from her own enslaved grandparents to the nation's first African American president. Brimming with joy and yet profoundly serious, this oral history brings us into the presence of an extraordinary African American woman. Rarely do we hear such an authentic and engaging voice from among the ranks of the disadvantaged.

DKK 327.00
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Self-Made Woman - Denise Chanterelle Dubois - Bog - University of Wisconsin Press - Plusbog.dk

Self-Made Woman - Denise Chanterelle Dubois - Bog - University of Wisconsin Press - Plusbog.dk

Denise Chanterelle DuBois's transformation into a woman wasn't easy. Born as a boy into a working-class Polish American Milwaukee family, she faced daunting hurdles: a domineering father, a gritty 1960s neighborhood with no understanding of gender nonconformity, trouble in school, and a childhood so haunted by deprivation that neckbone soup was a staple. Terrified of revealing her inner self, DuBois lurched through alcoholism, drug dealing and addiction, car crashes, dangerous sex, and prison time. Dennis barreled from Wisconsin to California, Oregon, Canada, Costa Rica, New York, Bangkok, and Hawaii on a joyless ride. Defying all expectations, DuBois didn't crash and burn. Embracing her identity as a woman, she remade herself. Writing with resolute honesty and humor, she confronts both her past and her present to tell an American story of self-discovery.

DKK 281.00
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Creating Old World Wisconsin - John D. Krugler - Bog - University of Wisconsin Press - Plusbog.dk

Creating Old World Wisconsin - John D. Krugler - Bog - University of Wisconsin Press - Plusbog.dk

With its charming heirloom gardens, historic livestock breeds, and faithfully recreated farmsteads and villages that span nearly 600 acres, Old World Wisconsin is the largest outdoor museum of rural life in the United States. But this seemingly time-frozen landscape of rustic outbuildings and rolling wooded hills did not effortlessly spring into existence, as John D. Krugler maintains in Creating Old World Wisconsin. As dozens of historic buildings were transported in the 1970s from various locations throughout the state to the Kettle Moraine State Forest, researchers, curators, and volunteers launched a massive preservation initiative to salvage fast-disappearing immigrant and migrant architecture. Researchers, curators, and volunteers created a backdrop against which twenty-first century interpreters demonstrate nineteenth- and early twentieth-century agricultural techniques and artisanal craftsmanship. The site, created and maintained by the Wisconsin Historical Society, offers visitors a unique opportunity to learn about the state's rich and ethnically diverse past through depictions of the everyday lives of its Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, German, Polish, African American, and Yankee inhabitants. Creating Old World Wisconsin chronicles the fascinating and complex origins of this outdoor museum, highlighting the struggles that faced its creators as they worked to achieve their vision. Even as Milwaukee architect and preservationist Richard W. E. Perrin, the Society's staff, and enthusiastic volunteers opened the museum in time for the national bicentennial in 1976, the site was plagued by limited funds, bureaucratic tangles, and problems associated with gaining public support. By documenting the engaging story of the challenges, roadblocks, false starts, and achievements of the site's founders, Krugler brings to life the history of the dedicated corps who collected and preserved Wisconsin's diverse social history and heritage.

DKK 298.00
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My Son Wears Heels - Julie Tarney - Bog - University of Wisconsin Press - Plusbog.dk

My Son Wears Heels - Julie Tarney - Bog - University of Wisconsin Press - Plusbog.dk

In 1992, Julie Tarney''s only child, Harry, told her, "Inside my head I''m a girl." He was two years old. Julie had no idea what that meant. She felt disoriented. Wasn''t it her role to encourage and support her child? Surely she had to set some limits to his self-expression-or did she? Would he be bullied? Could she do the right thing? What was the right thing? The internet was no help, because there was no internet. And there were zero books for a mom scrambling to understand a toddler who had definite ideas about his gender, regardless of how Nature had endowed him. Terms such as transgender, gender nonconforming, and gender creative were rare or nonexistent. There were, however, mainstream experts who theorized that a "sissy" boy was the result of a domineering mother. Julie couldn''t believe it. She didn''t want to care what her neighbors thought, but she did care. "Domineering mother" meant controlling mother. It meant bad mother. It meant her mother. Lacking a positive role model of her own, and fearful of being judged as a mom who was making her son "too feminine," Julie embarked on an unexpected parenting path. Despite some missteps, and with no map to guide her, she learned to rely on her instincts. She listened carefully, kept an open mind, and as long as Harry was happy, she let him lead the way. Julie eventually realized that Harry knew who he was all along. Her job was simply to love and support him unconditionally, allowing him to be his authentic self. This story of a mother embracing her child''s uniqueness and her own will resonate with all families.Winner, inaugural BeOUT Award for LGBTQ Visibility, awarded by Milwaukee Pride

DKK 298.00
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More than They Bargained For - Patrick Marley - Bog - University of Wisconsin Press - Plusbog.dk

More than They Bargained For - Patrick Marley - Bog - University of Wisconsin Press - Plusbog.dk

When Wisconsin became the first state in the nation in 1959 to let public employees bargain with their employers, the legislation catalysed changes to labour laws across the country. In March 2011, when newly elected governor Scott Walker repealed most of that labour law and subsequent ones - and then became the first governor in the nation to survive a recall election fifteen months later - it sent a different message. Both times, Wisconsin took the lead, first empowering public unions and then weakening them. This book recounts the battle between the Republican governor and the unions. The struggle drew the attention of the country and the notice of the world, launching Walker as a national star for the Republican Party and simultaneously energising and damaging the American labour movement. Madison was the site of one unprecedented spectacle after another: 1:00 a.m. parliamentary manoeuvres, a camel slipping on icy Madison streets as union firefighters rushed to assist, massive nonviolent street protests, and a weeks-long occupation that blocked the marble halls of the Capitol and made its rotunda ring. Jason Stein and Patrick Marley, award-winning journalists for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, covered the fight firsthand. They centre their account on the frantic efforts of state officials meeting openly and in the Capitols elegant backrooms as protesters demonstrated outside. Conducting new in-depth interviews with elected officials, labour leaders, police officers, protestors, and other key figures, and drawing on new documents and their own years of experience as statehouse reporters, Stein and Marley have written a gripping account of the wildest sixteen months in Wisconsin politics since the era of Joe McCarthy. They offer new insights on the origins of Walker's wide-ranging budget-repair bill, which included the provision to end public-sector collective bargaining; the Senate Democrats' decision to leave the state to try to block the bill; Democrats' talks with both union leaders and Republicans while in Illinois; and the reasons why compromise has become, as one Republican dissenter put it, a ""dirty word"" in politics today.

DKK 317.00
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