The Keweenaw Peninsula of northern Michigan is the only place on earth where large amounts of cop...
As part of the great migration of southern blacks to the north, Sunnie Wilson came to Detroit fro...
Up and down the Great Lakes, wherever captains and seamen met, one of the chief topics of convers...
As the chief source of information for many people and a key revenue stream for the country's bro...
Ivan H. Walton was a pioneering folklorist who collected the songs and stories of aging sailors l...
Bruce Catton, whose name is identified with Civil War history, grew up in Benzonia, Michigan, pro...
Throughout World War II, Detroit's automobile manufacturers accounted for one-fifth of the dollar...
In 1862 at the age of thirty-two, Centreville, Michigan, physician John Bennitt joined the 19th M...
Joe Grimm of the Detroit Free Press has combined a fascinating collection of old family letters, ...
In 1976 and 1977, over the course of a thirteen-month period, two boys and two girls, ages ten th...
Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Detroit's large and nationally prominent Arab ...
From its beginnings in York, Pennsylvania, in 1847, until the death of Wallace L. Goodridge in Sa...
From 1870 to 1910 the prosperity of the copper and iron mining, lumbering, and shipping industrie...
Arthur M. Woodford takes readers back to the days of Cadillac's settlement and leads them through...
In Iron Will: Cleveland-Cliffs and the Mining of Iron Ore, 1847--2006, Terry S. Reynolds and Virg...
With roots extending back to the first decade of the twentieth century, Nash Motor Company and th...
Originally published in 1919, The Iron Hunter is the autobiography of one of Michigan's most infl...
At the start of the Ford Motor Company in 1903, the Dodge Brothers supplied nearly every car part...
Who's Jim Hines? is a story based on real events about Douglas Ford Jr., a twelve-year-old Africa...
These Men Have Seen Hard Service recounts the fascinating history of one outstanding Michigan reg...
Seasons of Grace is a history of the Catholic Church and community in southern lower Michigan fro...
From the Chrysler Six of 1924 to the front-wheel-drive vehicles of the 70s and 80s to the minivan...
In the port city of Manistee on the coast of Lake Michigan lives a girl named Mary. Mary's father...
First published in 1958 by Charles Scribner's Sons, Independent Man is the only book-length biogr...
Most people recognize Michigan by its mitten-shaped Lower Peninsula and the Great Lakes embracing...
Symbols of safety, reassurance, and guidance, lighthouses hold a special fascination for many peo...
This book is an account of the ships that have borne the name 'Queen of the Lakes,' an honorary t...
John Jacob Astor was the best-known and most important American businessman for more than a half-...
On January 17, 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment took effect in the United States, prohibiting the m...
Uppermost Canada examines the historical, cultural, and social history of the Canadian portion of...
Michigan has long been proud of its military service, but many of its early accomplishments are u...
In the early 1900s, Detroit's clubwomen successfully lobbied for issues like creating playgrounds...
Bankruptcy law is a major part of the American legal landscape.More than a million individuals an...
Near the turn of the twentieth century, 'Pine King' Justus S. Stearns was Michigan's largest prod...
In the turbulent era from 1890 to the late 1930s, Detroit emerged as a leading industrial and urb...
Though usually regarded as a footnote in automotive history, Maxwell Motor was one of the leading...
During the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to the cities of the Northeast, Mi...
Details the first major U.S. setback in the War of 1812 and analyzes the background and aftermath...
Though it was located far away from Southern battlefields, Detroit churned with unrest during the...
As volunteer engineers for the Union army, the First Michigan Engineers and Mechanics regiment wa...
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, the federal trial court ba...