Women's Wisconsin : From Native Matriarchies to the New Millennium

__Women's Wisconsin: From Native Matriarchies to the New Millennium__, a women's history anthology published on Women's Equality Day 2005, made history as the first single-source history of Wisconsin women. This unique tome features dozens of excerpts of articles as well as primary sources, such as women's letters, reminiscences, and oral histories, previously published over many decades in the __Wisconsin Magazine of History__ and other Wisconsin Historical Society Press publications.Editor and historian Genevieve G. McBride provides the contextual commentary and overarching analysis to make the history of Wisconsin women accessible to students, scholars, and lifelong learners. Women's Wisconsin: From Native Matriarchies to the New Millennium , a women's history anthology published on Women's Equality Day 2005, made history as the first single-source history of Wisconsin women. This unique tome features dozens of excerpts of articles as well as primary sources, such as women's letters, reminiscences, and oral histories, previously published over many decades in the Wisconsin Magazine of History and other Wisconsin Historical Society Press publications. Editor and historian Genevieve G. McBride provides the contextual commentary and overarching analysis to make the history of Wisconsin women accessible to students, scholars, and lifelong learners. "This unique anthology is the first single-source history of Wisconsin women, native and newcomers. It features dozens of excerpts of articles as well as primary sources, such as women's letters, reminiscences, and oral histories, previously published over many decades in the Wisconsin Magazine of History. Editor and historian Genevieve G. McBride provides the contextual commentary and overarching analysis to make Wisconsin women's history accessible to students, scholars, and lifelong learners alike."--BOOK JACKET The first Wisconsin women Women on the Wisconsin frontier, 1836-1848 Statehood and the status of women, 1848-1868 Poverty and progress for women in Wisconsin, 1868-1888 Organized women, 1888-1910 "Forward" women in Wisconsin, 1910-1930 Women at war, 1930-1950 Never done: women's work from the Wisconsin centennial into the new millenium. Features excerpts of articles and primary sources, such as women's letters, reminiscences, and oral histories, previously published in the "Wisconsin Magazine of History" and other WHS publications. This book provides the commentary and analysis to make Wisconsin women's history accessible to students, scholars, and lifelong learners.