They Came to Wisconsin

by Julia Pferdehirt

They Came to Wisconsin presents three themes of the state's immigrant history: leaving the homeland, making the journey, and enduring the first year of settlement. Journal and diary entries and letters from European groups and oral histories from African American, Latino, Hmong, and Amish sources make this book dynamic and wholly inclusive. They Came to Wisconsin breaks fresh ground in presenting document-centered Wisconsin history...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870203282
• ISBN13: 9780870203282
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.0" x 7.2"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

The engaging story of a wide variety of immigrant groups

A part of the Wisconsin Historical Society Press "The New Badger History Series", They Came To Wisconsin by Julia Pferdehirt, is the engaging story of a wide variety of immigrant groups who settled in the American Midwest state of Wisconsin during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and ranges from a variety of traditional European groups to the African Americans, Latinos, and Hmong newcomers of today. Oral histories, excerpts from the Wisconsin Historical Society's archives, interviews, and much, much more fill this rich 127-page survey of Wisconsin's plural heritage. A "must" for all Wisconsin library systems, there is also a Teachers Guide & Student Materials for They Came To Wisconsin ... that is ideal for traditional classroom and/or homeschooling instruction as well.