Perspectives on Milwaukee's Past

Margo Anderson is a professor of history and urban studies and director of the urban studies program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Victor Greene is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

• Preface   ixIntroduction: Milwaukee in Perspective   1 Margo Anderson and Victor GreeneSECTION 1: POLITICS AND WORK1. Cream City Electoral Politics: A Play in Four Acts   17 John Buenker 2. Milwaukee Labor and Urban Democracy   48 Eric Fure-Slocum 3. The Revolution Begins Here: Milwaukee and the History of Socialism   79 Aims McGuinnessSECTION 2: THE PEOPLES OF MILWAUKEE4. Deutsch-Athen Revisited: Writing the History of Germans in Milwaukee   109 Anke Ortlepp 5. African Americans, Civil Rights, and Race-Making in Milwaukee   131 Jack Dougherty 6. Latinos and Asians in Milwaukee   162 Joseph A. Rodriguez and Mark Shelley 7. Helpmeets, Hausfrauen, Hellions, and the Missing Majority in Milwaukee History   192 Genevieve G. McBrideSECTION 3: INSTITUTIONS AND CULTURE8. Surveying Milwaukee's Residential Landscapes: Prospects for Research   223 Judith T. Kenny and Thomas C. Hubka 9. Religion and the Shaping of Milwaukee   256 Steven M. Avella 10. Dealing with Diversity: Milwaukee's Multiethnic Festivals and Urban Identity, 1840-1940   285 Victor Greene Epilogue: Milwaukee's Usable Past   317 Margo AndersonAppendix: Milwaukee Population   331Contributors   333Index   337

"Anderson and Greene's collection offers a compelling case for the broader national significance of Milwaukee as a site of historical research. This book not only sheds light on Milwaukee's history from its pre-industrial origins through the era of deindustrialization, but also surveys shifting historiographical trends in the scholarly and popular treatment of the city's history."--Joe William Trotter Jr., author of Black Milwaukee: The Making of an Industrial Proletariat, 1915-45 "Examining diverse aspects of Milwaukee's history, the contributors to this wide-ranging collection offer a rich portrait of the city's past. Anderson and Greene have assembled a stimulating volume that contributes significantly to cultural and social history and to the study of urbanism, planning, and public policy."--Nora Faires, author of Permeable Border: The Great Lakes Basin as Transnational Region, 1650-1990