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[1] John M. McCarthy, Making Milwaukee Mightier: Planning and the Politics of Growth, 1910-1960 (DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2009), 194-197, 207-212; Barbara J. Miner, Lessons from the Heartland: A Turbulent Half Century of Public Education in an Iconic American City (New York, NY, and London: The New Press, 2013), 12-13, 111-112;
[1] Robert A. Birmingham and Leslie Eisenberg, Indian Mounds of Wisconsin (Madison: WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000); Robert A. Birmingham and Amy Rosebrough, “On the Meaning of Effigy Mounds,” The Wisconsin Archeologist 84 no.1-2 (2003): 21-36; Robert A. Birmingham, Spirits of Earth: The Effigy Mound Landscape of Madison and the Four
[1] For history of the national eight-hour movement and eight-hour laws in some states, see Philip S. Foner, History of the Labor Movement in the United States. Vol. II, From the Founding of the American Federation of Labor to the Emergence of American Imperialism (New York: International Publishers, 1975), 98; Joseph G. Rayback, <
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[3] Although officially incorporated in 1958, the true beginning of Elmbrook Church is traced back to the regular gatherings of the Harris, Baldwin, Davidson, Hoover, and Lutz families at their
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[2] John D. Buenker, The History of Wisconsin, volume IV, The Progressive Era, 1893-1914 (Madison, WI: The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1998), 170-172; “Seidel, 62, Still Dreams; Spirit Retains Bristle,” Milwaukee Journal
[1] The word “Milwaukee” may come from the Potawatomi language minwaking, or Ojibwe language ominowakiing, “Gathering place [by the water].” Early explorers called the Milwaukee River and surrounding lands various names: Melleorki, Milwacky, Mahn-a-waukie, Milwarck, and Milwaucki. For many years, printed records gave the name as “Milwaukie,” “Milwaukee,” Wikipedia, last accessed
[1] Harold Ezra Wagner, The Episcopal Church in Wisconsin, 1847-1947: A History of the Diocese of Milwaukee (Milwaukee: The [Episcopal] Diocese of Milwaukee, 1947), 29-41.
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[1] Ellen D. Langill, A Tradition of Caring: The History of Milwaukee’s Three Primary Service Hospitals (Milwaukee: Sinai-Samaritan Hospitals History Committee, 1999); 56; “To Dedicate Evangelical Deaconess’ Home and Hospital,” The Milwaukee Sentinel, August 28, 1910, accessed February 2, 2014, http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19100828&id=HgtQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-QkEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2403,3516659; “
[1] John Gurda, The Making of “A Good Name in Industry” (Milwaukee: The Falk Corporation, 1991). The title here alludes to the slogan Falk employed in their advertising campaigns.
[2] Gurda, The Making of “A Good Name in Industry,” 19-23. Gurda explains how the Falk brother sold their father’s brewery
[1] “Family,” Encyclopedia Britannica, last accessed October 5, 2019
[2] The term “economics” derives from the Greek word “oikos” meaning family or household. For most of human history, the “family” was also the primary economic unit of a society.
[3] “Indian Country, Potawatomi Culture,” Milwaukee Public Museum, accessed July 11, 2019.
[1] Joseph A. Rodriguez, Bootstrap New Urbanism: Design, Race, and Redevelopment in Milwaukee (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014), 80-85.
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[1] Victor Greene, “Dealing with Diversity: Milwaukee’s Multiethnic Festivals and Urban Identity, 1840-1940,” Journal of Urban History 31, no. 6 (2005): 827.
[2] Greene, “Dealing with Diversity,” 823.
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[1] Roland L. Guyotte and Barbara M. Posadas, “Filipinos and Filipino Americans, 1870-1940,” in Immigrants in American History: Arrival, Adaptation, and Integration, Vol. 1, ed. Elliott Robert Barkan, (Westport, CT: ABC-CLIO, 2013), 347.
[2] Guyotte and Posadas, “Filipinos and Filipino Americans, 1870-1940,” 347-348.
[3] Barbara M. Posadas and Roland L. Guyotte, “Filipinos and Filipino
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