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Milwaukee in the 1930s provides a never-before-published, unique record of a pre-World War II American city. Written by participants in the Federal Writers Project in the 1930s and edited in the present-day by John D. Buenker, the book covers the geography, economy, and culture of thirteen neighborhoods of old Milwaukee, ranging from Civic Center to Bay View, with photographs, maps, and auto tours.
About the author
John D. Buenker, Ph.D., is professor emeritus of history for the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, where he taught for thirty-three years. As an adjunct professor in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Department of Educational Outreach and a fellow of the Wisconsin Humanities Council, he has taught numerous courses at venues throughout the Milwaukee metropolitan area. @TX-m: John is the author or editor of fifteen books, including volume IV of the Wisconsin Historical Society's History of Wisconsin: The Progressive Era, 1893-1914. He has published more than 250 book chapters, articles in scholarly journals and reference works, and book reviews. Among them are "'Neoteching' Milwaukee: The Cream City's Emergence as an Industrial Metropolis" in Milwaukee History magazine and "Cream City Politics: A Play in Four Acts" in Perspectives on Milwaukee's Past. He has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute for Research in the Humanities; awards from the state historical societies of New Jersey, Illinois, and Wisconsin; and the Marion G. Ogden Prize of the Milwaukee County Historical Society. In 1991 John was named Wisconsin Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation's Center for the Advancement and Support of Higher Education and was inducted into the Southeastern Wisconsin Educators' Hall of Fame.
