Vol, 7, No. 16: April 28, 2008		Get SEAchange by email

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6. New books on Wisconsin history, Lambeau, Laird, U.P. folklore

This spring brings the release of new, useful books about Wisconsin history and personalities, as well as folk stories of our northeastern neighbors.

The Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS) Press has published its new fourth-grade Wisconsin History Textbook, Wisconsin: Our State, Our Story, by Bobbie Malone and Kori Oberle. Full color and visually lush, the book provides students with both literacy and content skills. Readers encounter lively stories of the many individuals, groups, and events that shaped the state's past--from the retreat of the glaciers more than 10,000 years ago to the diverse state of today. Students will also engage with big historical questions designed to develop critical thinking skills. The text addresses DPI academic standards in Social Studies and Reading.

When Earl 'Curly' Lambeau was a young boy growing up in Green Bay in the early 1900s, he and his friends didn't have money for a football. Instead, they ran around with a salt sack filled with sand, leaves, and pebbles. That humble beginning produced a single-minded drive for the figure whose name now graces the Green Bay Packers' stadium. Curly Lambeau: Building the Green Bay Packers, by Stuart Stotts, is another new release from the WHS Press.

With Honor: Melvin Laird in War, Peace, and Politics is the first book to focus on the legacy of former Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, who grew up in Marshfield, Wisconsin. Appointed at the peak of the Vietnam War, Laird is credited with handing off military involvement to South Vietnam, helping to end the draft, and strongly influencing the selection of Gerald Ford as Vice President. Dale Van Atta penned the new biography, published by the University of Wisconsin Press.

The UW Press is also publishing a new edition of Bloodstoppers and Bearwalkers: Folk Traditions of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, which features stories of "Yooper" loggers, miners, sailors, trappers, and townsfolk. The variously peculiar and raucous tales of the U.P. reveal a vital component of Upper Midwestern culture and a fascinating cross-section of American society. Author Richard Dorson originally published the book in 1952.

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Last updated on 4/28/2008