Further Reading
Rural History, General
- Danbom, Daniel B. Born in the Country: A History of Rural America. #nd ed. (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2017).
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Hurt, R. Douglas. Problems of Plenty: The American Farmer in the Twentieth Century. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002).
History of Rural Wisconsin
- Jensen, Joan. Calling This Place Home: Women on the Wisconsin Frontier, 1850-1925. Minneapolis: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2006.
- Pederson, Jane. Between Memory and Reality: Family and Community in Rural Wisconsin. (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992).
Public Health and the Progressive Era
- Danbom, David B. Resisted Revolution: Urban American and the Industrialization of Agriculture, 1900-1930. (Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1979).
- Hass, Paul H. "Sin in Wisconsin: The Teasdale Vice Committee of 1913," The Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 49, No. 2 (Winter, 1965-1966), pp. 138-151. http://proxy.uwec.edu/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4634125
- Koslow, Jennifer Lisa. Exhibiting Health: Public Health Displays in the Progressive Era. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2020).
- Odem, Mary. Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920. (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1995).
- Walzer Leavitt, Judith. The Healthiest City: Milwaukee and the Politics of Health Reform (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996).
The 1918 Pandemic
- Bristol, Nancy K. American Pandemic: The Lost World's of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).
- Crosby, Alfred. America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918. 2nd ed. (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
- Steven Burg, "Wisconsin and the Great Spanish Flu Epidemic of 1918," Wisconsin Magazine of History: Volume 84, number 1, autumn 2000.
The Bracero Program
- Hahamovitch, Cindy. Fruits of Their Labors: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870-1945. Raleigh: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
- Deborah. Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico. Raleigh: University of North Carolina Press, 2013.
- Loza, Mireya. Defiant Braceros: How Migrant Workers Fought for Racial, Sexual, and Political Freedom. Raleigh: University of North Carolina Press, 2016.
- About Latinx Workers in WI https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/wisconsins-dairy-industry-would-collapse-without-work-latino-immigrants-many-them
- About Migrant Workers in Rural Wisconsin https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/25/its-five-years-since-a-white-worker-applied-the-immigrants-milking-americas-cows
- About Wisconsin Dairy Industry https://www.jsonline.com/in-depth/news/special-reports/dairy-crisis/2019/11/12/wisconsin-dairy-farms-rely-immigrant-workers-undocumented-laborers/2570288001/
- Data about Immigrants in WI https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/immigrants-in-wisconsin
- Immigrants the Backbone of Dairy Industry in WI https://www.wiscontext.org/why-immigrant-workers-became-backbone-wisconsins-dairy-business
- Long, D., and D. Veroff. "Latinos in Wisconsin: A statistical overview." UW Applied Population Laboratory & University of Wisconsin Extension, 2014.
- Tran, Emily. “How did undocumented immigrants come to dominate the workforce on U.S. dairy farms?,” Season 02 Episode 6, Ask a Historian, podcast audio, December 9, 2020.
- Valentine, Brent Eric. Uniting Two Cultures: Latino Immigrants in the Wisconsin Dairy Industry, The Center for Comparative Immigration Studies University of California, San Diego, September 2005.
- Wisconsin Historical Society, “Hispanics in Wisconsin.” https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS2574
The Flouridation Crisis
- Patterson, James T. Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945–1974. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996).
- Rodgers, Daniel T. Age of Fracture. (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2011).
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Burger , David. “Wisconsin Faces Wave of Anti-Fluoridation Efforts .” Wisconsin faces wave Of Anti-fluoridation efforts. Wisconsin Dental Association , March 6, 2020. https://www.ada.org/en/publications/ada-news/2020-archive/march/wisconsin-faces-wave-of-anti-fluoridation-efforts.
The Farm Crisis
- Riney-Kehrberg, Pamela. "A Special and Terrible Irony: Hunger on Iowa's Farms during the Agricultural Crisis of the 1980s." The Annals of Iowa 78 (2019), 361-390.
- Friedberger, Mark. Shake-Out: Iowa Farm Families in the 1980s. (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 2014).
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Barrett, Rick, and Jeff Bollier. “Coronavirus Has Hit Wisconsin Dairy FARMS Especially Hard -- Some Farmers May Even Have to Dump Milk.” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 30, 2020. https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/2020/03/27/coronavirus-hits-wisconsin-dairy-hard-farmers-may-have-dump-milk/2919401001/.
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Henning, Katrina. “Coronavirus Impacts Farmers in the Area.” https://www.weau.com. WEAU, March 17, 2020. https://www.weau.com/content/news/Coronavirus-impacts-farmers-in-the-area-568874831.html.
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Kelly, Jack. “'The Happiness and Joy Has Been Sucked out of Me': Wisconsin Dairy Farmers Face Mental Health Crisis.” Channel3000.com. Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, January 16, 2021. https://www.channel3000.com/the-happiness-and-joy-has-been-sucked-out-of-me-wisconsin-dairy-farmers-face-mental-health-crisis/.
The Opiod Crisis
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Monnat , Shannon M, and Khary K Rigg. “The Opioid Crisis in Rural and Small Town America .” Thesis, Carsey School of Public Policy, University of New Hampshire, 2018.
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Pullen, Erin, and Carrie Oser. “Barriers to Substance Abuse Treatment in Rural and Urban Communities: Counselor Perspectives.” Substance use & misuse. U.S. National Library of Medicine, March 24, 2014. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3995852/.
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Om, Anjali. “The Opioid Crisis in Black and White: The Role of Race in Our Nation’s Recent Drug Epidemic.” Journal of Public Health 40, no. 4 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdy103.
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Sable-Smith, Bram. “'Sometimes It's Just Pain, Pain, Pain': Inside a Rural Wisconsin Doctor's Fight to Manage Opioid Use.” Wisconsin Public Radio. NPR, December 31, 2019. https://www.wpr.org/sometimes-its-just-pain-pain-pain-inside-rural-wisconsin-doctors-fight-manage-opioid-use.
COVID-19, Access, and Inequality
- https://covid19.who.int/
- https://www.nytimes.com/article/coronavirus-timeline.html.