Editing Historical Documents: A Handbook of Practice (American Association for State and Local History)

This volume is aimed both at more experienced editors, who may wish to skip over the advice offered in the introduction, as well as at those who are new to the craft and want to know how to begin work on publishing historical documents of interest to them.

Stevens, Michael E.

Burg, Steven B.

Literature & Fiction

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Cosponsored by the Association for Documentary Editing and the State Historical Society of Wisconsin

History

Americas

This volume tells the stories of 62 men and women from Wisconsin who served in the Spanish-American War, World War I, and World War II. Letters from the Front is a vivid social history of wartime as told by those who took part in these foreign conflicts. Most of them are "ordinary" people, uprooted from farms, factories, and offices, who took part in extraordinary events. This work explores how war changed their lives and reveals the emotions they felt in uniform, in remote outposts, in combat, and in prison camps. These letters, diaries, oral histories, newspapers, and contemporary accounts provide a history of adaptation to military life; they also reflect the changes that occurred over the half-century encompassing these confilcts, an era of great technological innovation — and one in which America's vision of itself also changed.

Letters from the Front, 1898-1945 (Voices of the Wisconsin Past)

Wisconsin Historical Society Press

Although Wisconsin residents gloried in the past, they paid even greater attention to the future. Journalists, scholars, religious leaders, and even schoolteachers offered predictions. Some predictions proved quite accurate, such as increased life expectancy through better medicine, central air conditioning, and air travel, while others, such as free university education for all and communication with Martians, did not. The nearly one hundred items that appear here are taken from newspapers, magazines, and other materials that were published in Wisconsin at the turn of the century. These articles and essays--some wildly funny and engaging, others somber and thoughtful--offer a window on the hopes and fears of our forebears at a moment of great change.

Yesterday's Future: The Twentieth Century Begins (Voices of the Wisconsin Past)

From the mid-1830s through the 1850s, more than a half million people settled in Wisconsin. While traveling in ships and wagons, establishing homes, and forming new communities, these men, women, and children recorded their experiences in letters, diaries, and newspaper articles. In their own words, they revealed their fears, joys, frustrations, and hopes for life in this new place. The Making of Pioneer Wisconsin provides a unique and intimate glimpse into the lives of these early settlers, as they describe what it felt like to be a teenager in a wagon heading west or an isolated young wife living far from her friends and family. Woven together with context provided by historian Michael E. Stevens, these first-person accounts form a fascinating narrative that deepens our ability to understand and empathize with Wisconsin’s early pioneers.

The Making of Pioneer Wisconsin: Voices of Early Settlers

Journals of the House of Representatives, 1787-1788 (STATE RECORDS OF SOUTH CAROLINA)

Politics & Social Sciences

Allen, Christine M.

Politics & Government

South Carolina Dept of

Journals of the House of Representatives, 1791 (STATE RECORDS OF SOUTH CAROLINA)

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Editing Historical Documents: A Handbook of Practice (American Association for State and Local History)

Editing Historical Documents: A Handbook of Practice (American Association for State and Local History)

Letters from the Front, 1898-1945 (Voices of the Wisconsin Past)

Yesterday's Future: The Twentieth Century Begins (Voices of the Wisconsin Past)

The Making of Pioneer Wisconsin: Voices of Early Settlers

Journals of the House of Representatives, 1787-1788 (STATE RECORDS OF SOUTH CAROLINA)

Journals of the House of Representatives, 1791 (STATE RECORDS OF SOUTH CAROLINA)