Recently added articles from Michigan Historical Review:
Habitues of the police court: criminal justice for the poor in Antebellum Detroit.(2008 Student Essay Prize Winner)(Essay)
Mar 22, 2009; Cragg, Thomas ... The Police Court is undoubtedly the most reliable index of the lower order of city life that is accessible to the community at large. A certain degree of familiarity with its habitues is necessary to enable one to appreciate fully the peculiarities of their character, but when it is ...
Civil War recruiting and recruits from ever-changing labor pools: Midland County, Michigan, as a case study.(Case study)
Mar 22, 2009; Mitchell, Robert E. ... The eighth federal census of June 1, 1860, can be used to estimate the size of the Northern states' pool of potential recruits into the Union armies during the years of the Civil War (1861 to 1865). (1) Because of high rates of geographical mobility before and during the war, the 1860 ...
Sault Ste. Marie as the capital of the world? Stellanova Osborn and the pursuit of the United Nations, 1945.
Mar 22, 2009; Mires, Charlene ... In April 1945, as the Second World War pressed toward its conclusion and diplomats gathered in San Francisco to draft a charter for the new United Nations organization (UN), the Evening News of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, printed a soldier's lament and call to action. In this letter, ...
"A catalyst for downtown": Detroit's Renaissance Center.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; Desiderio, Francis ... In 1977, the first phase of the Renaissance Center opened on Detroit's riverfront, sparking controversy over the utility of private urban design and development as tools for revitalizing big cities. Supporters and critics of the new structure clashed over both its symbolism and its meaning ...
Paul Alkebulan. Survival Pending Revolution: The History of the Black Panther Party.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Darragh, Thomas S. ... Paul Alkebulan. Survival Pending Revolution: The History of the Black Panther Party. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007. Pp. 216. Bibliographic essay. Bibliography. Epilogue. Index. Notes. Photographs. Cloth, $28.95. Paul Alkebulan's Survival Pending Revolution: The ...
Heather Buchanan, Sharon Stanford, and Teresa Kimble, eds.: Eyes on Fire: Witnesses to the Detroit Riot of 1967.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Ellison, Katherine E. ... Heather Buchanan, Sharon Stanford, and Teresa Kimble, eds. Eyes on Fire: Witnesses to the Detroit Riot of 1967. Detroit: Aquarius Press, 2007. Pp. 74. Preface. Paper, $24.99. The terror that consumed the city of Detroit, Michigan, during July 1967 is nearly impossible to ...
Colin G. Calloway. The Shawnees and the War for America.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Spero, Laura Keenan ... Colin G. Calloway. The Shawnees and the War for America. New York: Viking, 2007. Pp. 216. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $19.95; paper, $14.00. Colin G. Calloway's The Shawnees and the War for America is the inaugural offering from the Penguin Library of ...
Robert Casey. The Model T: A Centennial History.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Volti, Rudi ... Robert Casey. The Model T: A Centennial History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. Pp. 148. Drawings. Illustrations. Index. Photographs. Suggestions for further reading. Cloth, $24.95. Toward the end of 1908 the first production models of the Model T clattered out ...
Sally H. Clarke. Trust and Power: Consumers, the Modern Corporation, and the Making of the United States Automobile Market.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Linkletter, Karen ... Sally H. Clarke. Trust and Power: Consumers, the Modern Corporation, and the Making of the United States Automobile Market. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. 296. Appendix. Figures. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Tables. Cloth, $56.00. Sally H. Clarke's Trust and ...
Chauncey H. Cooke and William H. Mulligan, Jr., comp. A Badger Boy in Blue: The Civil War Letters of Chauncey H. Cooke.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Kuhl, Michelle ... Chauncey H. Cooke and William H. Mulligan, Jr., comp. A Badger Boy in Blue: The Civil War Letters of Chauncey H. Cooke. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2007. Pp. 144. Appendix. Introduction. Maps. Notes. Paper, $21.95. A Badger Boy in Blue is a collection of letters ...
Don Faber. The Toledo War. The First Michigan-Ohio Rivalry.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Booth, Stephen E. ... Don Faber. The Toledo War. The First Michigan-Ohio Rivalry. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008. Pp. 213. Epilogue. Index. Notes. Paper, $24.95. In The Toledo War: The First Michigan-Ohio Rivalry, Don Faber provides an in-depth analysis of a little-known dispute ...
Nelson George. Where Did Our Love Go? The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Aquila, Richard ... Nelson George. Where Did Our Love Go? The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound. 1985; repr., Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. Pp. 312. Discography. Index. Photographs. Preface. Paper, $24.95. For those who missed Nelson George's excellent history of Motown Records when ...
Steven High and David W. Lewis. Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Edwards, Pamela C. ... Steven High and David W. Lewis. Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization. Ithaca, N.Y.: Comell University Press, 2008. Pp. 192. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. Paper, $18.95. In Corporate Wasteland, Steven High explores the historical ...
Paul R. Josephson. Motorized Obsessions: Life, Liberty, and the Small-Bore Engine.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Chambers, Mark Milton ... Paul R. Josephson. Motorized Obsessions: Life, Liberty, and the Small-Bore Engine. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Pp. 258. Appendix. Index. Notes. Cloth, $22.00. Paul R. Josephson's wide-ranging history of small-bore engines explores the environmental and ...
Mary Keithan. Michigan One-Room Schoolhouses.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Schlack, Lawrence B. ... Mary Keithan. Michigan One-Room Schoolhouses. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008. Pp. 96. Photographs. Paper, $24.95. If you drive anywhere in rural America, you are bound to see an abandoned one-room schoolhouse. Mary Keithan has discovered and photographed several ...
James O. Lehman and Steven M. Nolt. Mennonites, Amish, and the Amebean Civil War.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Bush, Perry ... James O. Lehman and Steven M. Nolt. Mennonites, Amish, and the Amebean Civil War. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Pp. 353. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Maps. Notes. Tables. Cloth, $39.95. In this fascinating study, Lehman and Nolt perform a miraculous ...
David M. Lewis-Colman. Race against Liberalism: Black Workers and the UAW in Detroit.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Chamberlain, Elizabeth K. ... David M. Lewis-Colman. Race against Liberalism: Black Workers and the UAW in Detroit. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. Pp. 176. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $22.00. Race relations in the city of Detroit have been the subject of ...
John F. Lyons. Teachers and Reform: Chicago Public Education, 1929-1979.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Bos, Linda Marie ... John F. Lyons. Teachers and Reform: Chicago Public Education, 1929-1979. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. Pp. 312. Index. Notes. Tables. Cloth, $40.00. Teachers and Reform: Chicago Public Education traces teacher unionism in Chicago within the context of the major ...
Tom McCarthy. Auto Mania: Cars, Consumers, and the Environment.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Brucher, William ... Tom McCarthy. Auto Mania: Cars, Consumers, and the Environment. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. 347. Epilogue. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $32.50. In light of the recent financial struggles of the U.S. automobile industry, the massive fluctuation of gasoline ...
Richard Middleton. Pontiac's War: Its Causes, Course, and Consequences.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Muehlbauer, Matthew S. ... Richard Middleton. Pontiac's War: Its Causes, Course, and Consequences. New York: Routledge, 2007. Pp. 272. Bibliography. Index. Map. Notes. Paper, $24.95. The events known as Pontiac's War or Pontiac's Rebellion, encompassing Native American assaults upon British troops, ...
