Bibliography
Welcome to the digital bibliography of the Encyclopedia of Milwaukee. Affectionately called the EMKE DigBib, this resource can help you locate publications and resources related to the history of Milwaukee, its surrounding area, and the broader topics of study covered in our entries.
The EMKE DigBib is a digital companion to our spinoff print project, the Bibliography of Metropolitan Milwaukee, published in 2014 by Marquette University Press. The 344-page Bibliography of Metropolitan Milwaukee contains citations for more than 2,000 works relating to the history of the Milwaukee area, organized into nineteen topical chapters. The EMKE DigBib includes the contents of the “For Further Reading” lists at the ends of the EMKE entries and new work that has been published since 2014. The EMKE DigBib is organized into the same topical areas used in the Bibliography of Metropolitan Milwaukee and can be filtered according to these areas, much like our image library. With a few exceptions, the EMKE DigBib does not duplicate the contents of the Bibliography of Metropolitan Milwaukee. We encourage you to consult both the EMKE DigBib and the Bibliography of the Metropolitan Milwaukee for resources that can help answer your research questions and further your understanding of Milwaukee and its nearby communities.
The EMKE DigBib will be periodically updated as future scholarship is released. If you are the author of or know about a book or article relating to the history of Milwaukee, Waukesha, Ozaukee, or Washington County that is not included, please let the EMKE editors know using the “Contact Us” link.
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Gurda, John, The Making of Milwaukee. 3rd ed. Milwaukee: Milwaukee County Historical Society, 2008.
Categories: General WorksGurda, John. Cream City Chronicles: Stories of Milwaukee’s Past. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2007.
Categories: General WorksGurda, John. Milwaukee: A City Built on Water. Madison, WI: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2018.
Categories: General Works, Natural EnvironmentGurda, John. The Making of Milwaukee. Milwaukee: Milwaukee County Historical Society, 1999.
Categories: General WorksJablonsky, Thomas J., ed. Milwaukee Stories. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2005.
Categories: General WorksJacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. (New York: Vintage Books, 1961).
Categories: General WorksJanik, Erika. A Short History of Wisconsin. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2010.
Categories: General WorksLapham, Increase A. Wisconsin. Reprint of the 1846 edition published by I. A. Hopkins, Milwaukee; first published in 1844 as A Geographical and Topographical Description of Wisconsin. North Stratford, NH: Ayer Company Publishers, Inc., 1999.
Categories: General WorksLapham, Increase. Antiquities of Wisconsin, as Surveyed and Described. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1855.
Categories: General WorksMcCarthy, Charles. The Wisconsin Idea. New York, NY: The MacMillan Company, 1912.
Categories: General WorksMilwaukee Writer’s Project. History of Milwaukee County. Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee Public Library, 1947.
Categories: General WorksMueller, Donald Papers. Small Manuscript Collection. Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, Golda Meir Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Categories: General Worksn.a. History of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical Co., 1881.
Categories: General WorksNesbit, Robert C. The History of Wisconsin, Volume III: Urbanization & Industrialization, 1873-1893. Madison: The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1985.
Categories: General WorksNesbit, Robert Carrington. Wisconsin: A History. 2nd ed. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.
Categories: General WorksOld Settlers’ Club of Milwaukee. Early Milwaukee: Papers from the Archives of the Old Settlers’ Club of Milwaukee County. Milwaukee: The Club, 1916.
Categories: General WorksOrum, Anthony M. City-Building in America. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995.
Categories: General WorksSisson, Richard, Christina Zacher, and Andrew R.L. Cayton, eds. The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2007.
Categories: General WorksSmith, Alice E. The History of Wisconsin, Volume I: From Exploration to Statehood, edited by William Fletcher Thompson. Madison, WI: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1973.
Categories: General WorksStill, Bayrd. “Milwaukee, 1870-1900: The Emergence of a Metropolis.” Wisconsin Magazine of History 23, no. 2 (December 1939).
Categories: General Works