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Author : Wisconsin. Legislature. Committee on White Slave Traffic and Kindred Subjects
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Prostitutes
ISBN : UOM:39015028091620
Author : R. Richard Wagner
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780870209130
The first of two groundbreaking volumes on gay history in Wisconsin, We’ve Been Here All Along provides an illuminating and nuanced picture of Wisconsin’s gay history from the reporting on the Oscar Wilde trials of 1895 to the landmark Stonewall Riots of 1969. Throughout these decades, gay Wisconsinites developed identities, created support networks, and found ways to thrive in their communities despite various forms of suppression—from the anti-vice crusades of the early twentieth century to the post-war labeling of homosexuality as an illness to the Lavender Scare of the 1950s. In We’ve Been Here All Along, R. Richard Wagner draws on historical research and materials from his own extensive archive to uncover previously hidden stories of gay Wisconsinites. This book honors their legacy and confirms that they have been foundational to the development and evolution of the state since its earliest days
Author : Michael Edmonds
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870204715
Every American has heard of the lumberjack hero Paul Bunyan and his big blue ox. For 100 years his exploits filled cartoons, magazines, short stories, and children's books, and his name advertised everything from pancake breakfasts to construction supplies. By 1950 Bunyan was a ubiquitous icon of America's strength and ingenuity. Until now, no one knew where he came from—and the extent to which this mythical hero is rooted in Wisconsin. Out of the Northwoods presents the culture of nineteenth-century lumberjacks in their own words. It includes eyewitness accounts of how the first Bunyan stories were shared on frigid winter nights, around logging camp stoves, in the Wisconsin pinery. It describes where the tales began, how they moved out of the forest and into print, and why publication changed them forever. Part bibliographic mystery and part social history, Out of the Northwoods explains for the first time why we all know and love Paul Bunyan.
Author : Dean Klinkenberg
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493060733
In his memoir, Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain personified the river as “Sudden Death and General Desolation! Sired by a hurricane, dam’d by an earthquake, half-brother to the cholera, nearly related to the small-pox on the mother’s side! Look at me! I take nineteen alligators and a bar’l of whiskey for breakfast when I’m in robust health, and a bushel of rattlesnakes and a dead body when I’m ailing!” Twain’s time as a steamboat pilot showed him the true character of The Great River, with its unpredictable moods and hidden secrets. Still a vital route for U.S. shipping, the Mississippi River has given life to riverside communities, manufacturing industries, fishing, tourism, and other livelihoods. But the Mighty Mississippi has also claimed countless lives as tribute to its muddy waters. Climate and environmental conditions made the Mississippi the perfect incubator for diseases like malaria. Natural disasters, like tornadoes, floods, and even an earthquake, have changed and reshaped the river’s banks over thousands of years. Shipwrecks and steamboat explosions were once common in the difficult-to-navigate waters. But when there was money to be made, there were some willing to risk it all—from the brave steamboat captains who went down with their ships, to the illegal moonshiners and pirates who pillaged the river’s bounty. In this book, author and Mississippi River historian Dean Klinkenberg explores the many disastrous events to have occurred on and along the river in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—from steamboat explosions, to Yellow Fever epidemics, floods, and Prohibition piracy. Enjoy this journey into the darkest deeds of the Mississippi River.
Author : Mara Laura Keire
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801898778
Mara L. Keire’s history of red-light districts in the United States offers readers a fascinating survey of the business of pleasure from the 1890s through the repeal of Prohibition in 1933. Anti-vice reformers in the late nineteenth century accepted that complete eradication of disreputable pleasure was impossible. Seeking a way to regulate rather than eliminate prostitution, alcohol, drugs, and gambling, urban reformers confined sites of disreputable pleasure to red-light districts in cities throughout the United States. They dismissed the extremes of prohibitory law and instead sought to limit the impact of vice on city life through realistic restrictive measures. Keire’s thoughtful work examines the popular culture that developed within red-light districts, as well as efforts to contain vice in such cities as New Orleans; Hartford, Connecticut; New York City; Macon, Georgia; San Francisco; and El Paso, Texas. Keire describes the people and practices in red-light districts, reformers' efforts to limit their impact on city life, and the successful closure of the districts during World War I. Her study extends into Prohibition and discusses the various effects that scattering vice and banning alcohol had on commercial nightlife.
Author : Ruth Rosen
Publisher : Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0801826640
"Rosen has broken entirely new ground in what will surely remain the definitive study of urban prostitution in America for many years to come." -- Times Literary Supplement
Author : John D. Buenker
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 781 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870206313
Published in Wisconsin's Sesquicentennial year, this fourth volume in The History of Wisconsin series covers the twenty tumultuous years between the World's Columbian Exposition and the First World War when Wisconsin essentially reinvented itself, becoming the nation's "laboratory of democracy." The period known as the Progressive Era began to emerge in the mid-1890s. A sense of crisis and a widespread clamor for reform arose in reaction to rapid changes in population, technology, work, and society. Wisconsinites responded with action: their advocacy of women's suffrage, labor rights and protections, educational reform, increased social services, and more responsive government led to a veritable flood of reform legislation that established Wisconsin as the most progressive state in the union. As governor and U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, Robert M. La Follette, Sr., was the most celebrated of the Progressives, but he was surrounded by a host of pragmatic idealists from politics, government, and the state university. Although the Progressives frequently disagreed over priorities and tactics, their values and core beliefs coalesced around broad-based participatory democracy, the application of scientific expertise to governance, and an active concern for the welfare of all members of society-what came to be known as "the Wisconsin Idea."
Author : KEVIN ABING
Publisher : Fonthill Media
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : John D'Emilio,Estelle B. Freedman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226923819
“Fascinating . . . chart[s] a gradual but decisive shift in the way Americans have understood sex and its meaning in their lives.” —New York Times Book Review The first full length study of the history of sexuality in America, Intimate Matters offers trenchant insights into the sexual behavior of Americans, from colonial times to today. D’Emilio and Freedman give us a deeper understanding of how sexuality has dramatically influenced politics and culture throughout our history. “Intimate Matters was cited by Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy when, writing for a majority of court on July 26, he and his colleagues struck down a Texas law criminalizing sodomy. The decision was widely hailed as a victory for gay rights. . . . The justice mentioned Intimate Matters specifically in the court’s decision.” —Chicago Tribune “With comprehensiveness and care . . . D’Emilio and Freedman have surveyed the sexual patterns for an entire nation across four centuries.” —Nation “Comprehensive, meticulous and intelligent.” —Washington Post Book World “This book is remarkable . . . [Intimate Matters] is bound to become the definitive survey of American sexual history for years to come.” —Roy Porter, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
Author : Bill LeFurgy
Publisher : High Kicker Books
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781734567854
The state of Maryland established the Maryland Vice Commission in 1913 to "examine into the conditions of vice in this State and its relation and effect on the community at large.” The commission issued five draft reports by early 1916. Baltimore officials refused to accept any of the findings and the reports were not officially published. This book provides a typescript copy of the first commission report, entitled "Commercialized Vice in Baltimore." Included is an introduction to the commission and an overview of its finding in relation to the contemporary sex trade, including sexual procurement, prostitutes, and bordellos. A select bibliography relating to primary and secondary sources is provided.
Author : Maimie Pinzer
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1558611436
"An astonishing book. . . .Maimie wrote like a dream"--"New York Times Book Review"
Author : Chad Alan Goldberg
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780299328900
American public universities were founded in a civic tradition that differentiated them from their European predecessors—steering away from the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake. Like many such higher education institutions across the United States, the University of Wisconsin’s mission, known as the Wisconsin Idea, emphasizes a responsibility to serve the needs of the state and its people. This commitment, which necessarily requires a pledge to academic freedom, has recently been openly threatened by state and federal actors seeking to dismantle a democratic and expansive conception of public service. Using the Wisconsin Idea as a lens, Education for Democracy argues that public higher education institutions remain a bastion of collaborative problem solving. Examinations of partnerships between the state university and people of the state highlight many crucial and lasting contributions to issues of broad public concern such as conservation, LGBTQ+ rights, and poverty alleviation. The contributors restore the value of state universities and humanities education as a public good, contending that they deserve renewed and robust support.
Author : Paul S. Boyer
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299175832
The first edition of Purity in Print documented book censorship in America from the 1870s to the 1930s, embedding it within the larger social and cultural history of the time. In this second edition, Boyer adds two new chapters carrying his history forward to the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Author : Library of Congress,American Library Association. Committee on Resources of American Libraries. National Union Catalog Subcommittee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Catalogs, Union
ISBN : UOM:39015082916175
Author : Yance Marti
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439665466
Local historian Yance Marti uncovers the rough and rowdy blackguards who once made Milwaukee infamous. The Cream City of yesteryear was a dingy haven for scofflaws and villains. Red-light districts peppered downtown's landscape, but none had the enduring allure of River Street, where Kitty Williams and Mary Kingsley operated high-class brothels. Chinese opium dens flourished in the backrooms of laundries. The demise of the Whiskey Ring brought down local distillers in a nationwide scandal that nearly reached the Oval Office. As a result, Police Chief John Janssen and the Committee to Investigate White Slavery and Kindred Vice waged a protracted battle to contain the most brazen offenses.