election process, enacting one of the most aggressive legislative gerrymanders in the country and replacing Wisconsin's nonpartisan state elections board with a commission of political appointees. When Walker lost re-election in 2018, he collaborated with the gerrymandered Republican legislature to strip powers from the incoming Governor and Attorney General. Since 2011, Wisconsin has seen increasing governmental dysfunction and paralysis, as the durable gerrymander insulates the legislature from electoral consequences. See also Wisconsin Magazine of History, scholarly articles on Wisconsin history Women's suffrage in Wisconsin History of the Midwestern United States History of Milwaukee, Wisconsin Northwest Territory List of Wisconsin Civil War units List of governors of Wisconsin References Background on land offices and settlement Bibliography Surveys Buenker, John D. The History of Wisconsin, Volume 4: The Progressive Era, 1893–1914. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1998. highly detailed history Campbell, Henry C. Wisconsin in Three Centuries, 1684-1905 (4 vols.: 1, 2, 3, 4, 1906), highly detailed popular history Conant, James K. Wisconsin Politics And Government: America's Laboratory of Democracy (2006) Current, Richard. Wisconsin: A History (2001) online Current, Richard Nelson. History of Wisconsin, Volume 2: The Civil War Era, 1848–1873. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1976. standard state history Gara, Larry. A Short History of Wisconsin (1962) Glad, Paul W. War, a New Era, and Depression, 1914-1940 (Volume 5 of History of Wisconsin) (1990) excerpt Holmes, Fred L. Wisconsin (5 vols., Chicago, 1946), detailed popular history with many biographies Klement, Frank L. Wisconsin in the Civil War: The Home Front and the Battle Front, 1861-1865. (State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1997). online Nesbit, Robert C. Wisconsin: A History (rev. ed. 1989) online Nesbit, Robert C. The History of Wisconsin, Volume 3: Industrialization and Urbanization 1873–1893. (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1973). Quaife, Milo M. Wisconsin, Its History and Its People, 1634-1924 (4 vols., 1924), detailed popular history & biographies Raney, William Francis. Wisconsin: A Story of Progress (1940) Robinson, A. H. and J. B. Culver, ed., The Atlas of Wisconsin (1974) online Smith, Alice. The History of Wisconsin, Volume 1: From Exploration to Statehood. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1973. Van Ells, Mark D. Wisconsin [On-The-Road Histories]. (2009). Vogeler, Ingolf, et al. Wisconsin: A Geography (Routledge, 2021) online. Weber, Ronald E. Crane and Hagensick's Wisconsin government and politics (2004) [Crane and Hagensick's Wisconsin government and politics online] Wisconsin biographical dictionary: people of all times and all places