The Making of Michigan, 1820-1860

The Making of Michigan, 1820-1860
Author: Justin L. Kestenbaum
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 428
Release: 1990
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780814319192

The Making of Michigan is a wide-ranging collection of primary accounts of life in Michigan during the pioneer period. The Making of Michigan is a wide-ranging collection of primary accounts of life in Michigan during the pioneer period, the era from the 1820s to the outbreak of the Civil War. In this time of explosive growth, the state's population increased from 8,000 to 750,000. These emigrants brought the state into the union in 1837 and began to create a set of institutions and a way of life. Justin Kestenbaum draws on the rich documentary record left by those who sojourned in the state during this time and recorded their impressions. Not only pioneers but land speculators, missionaries, and sight-seers left valuable accounts of the Michigan landscape and its emerging society. Following a general introduction, the book is divided into six parts: The Interminable Forest, Laying the Foundation, The Great Migration, Education, A Vision of Life, and Political Life, each with its own brief introduction. Notes and a bibliography conclude this valuable resource history.

The Detroit Tigers

The Detroit Tigers
Author: William Martin Anderson
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780814328262

In this revised pictorial history of the Detroit Tigers, William M. Anderson highlights the greatest players and moments in Tiger history. The Detroit Tigers begins with the team's membership in the National League 0881-1888) and covers its history through the 1998 season. Containing over 440 photographs, three- fourths of which are new images, The Detroit Tigers captures the traditions of baseball and fuses them with the memories of a beloved team.

Elmwood Endures

Elmwood Endures
Author: Michael S. Franck
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 222
Release: 1996
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780814325919

Elmwood Endures provides a visual journey of the cemetery's history and landscape. The guidebook features nearly one hundred photographs, along with brief biographies of notable occupants who make up a virtual who's who in Detroit history. Many of those buried--governors, explorers, doctors, mayors, inventors, senators, civil rights leaders, distillers and brewmasters, and civil war generals--helped found and shape the city.

From Saginaw Valley to Tin Pan Alley

From Saginaw Valley to Tin Pan Alley
Author: R. Grant Smith
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 1998
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780814326589

From Saginaw Valley to Tin Pan Alley documents the work of more than sixty popular songwriters who hailed from Saginaw, and provides background information and anecdotes about the most famous songwriters and their most famous songs. Among the greatest of the Saginaw songwriters were Charles K. Harris ("After the Ball'), Dan Russo ("Toot, Toot, Tootsie, Goo'Bye!"), Gerald Marks ("All of Me"), Ange Lorenzo ("Sleepy Time Gal"), Isham Jones ("It Had to Be You"), and Ben Weisman ("Paper Roses", "Honey in the Horn"). More than seventy sheet music covers dating from between 1890 and 1955 are interposed with the narrative, adding to the book's charm and historic value.

Beyond the Windswept Dunes

Beyond the Windswept Dunes
Author: Elizabeth B. Sherman
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780814331279

The first book to document the maritime history of the port city Muskegon combining historical detail and good storytelling.

Huron

Huron
Author: Napier Shelton
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 270
Release: 1999-06-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0814336485

Huron is pleasurable reading for any student of natural history or the Great Lakes region, or for anyone who has ever spent time at a summer cottage or wished to do so. Napier Shelton takes us on a journey as he spends a year at his family's cottage on the lake. Having visited Lake Huron for over thirty years, Shelton weaves family memories into his evocative and informed account of the seasons on this great lake. In 1995, Shelton spent a year at the cottage more fully exploring Lake Huron and its varied shores. He writes about Native American fishing rights, small towns, the fearsome ice, and the migration of birds. He follows the seasonal changes of life in the water. We accompany him on commercial fishing boats, a research vessel studying lake trout, and a Coast Guard icebreaker. We experience the travels and tragedies of venturers on Lake Huron over the past four centuries. Huron is pleasurable reading for any student of natural history or the Great Lakes region, or for anyone who has ever spent time at a summer cottage or wished to do so.

Steamboats & Sailors of the Great Lakes

Steamboats & Sailors of the Great Lakes
Author: Mark L. Thompson
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1991
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780814323595

Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes is the most thorough and factual study of the Great Lakes shipping industry written this century. Author Mark L. Thompson tells the fascinating story of the world's most efficient bulk transportation system, describing the Great Lakes freighters, the cargoes of the great ships, and the men and women who have served as crew. He documents the dramatic changes that have taken place in the industry and looks at the critical role that Great Lakes shipping plays in the economic well-being of the U.S. and Canada, despite the fact that the size of the fleet and the amount of cargo carried have declined dramatically in recent years.

The Constitutionalism of American States

The Constitutionalism of American States
Author: George E. Connor
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Total Pages: 849
Release: 2008
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0826266053

"This comparative study of state constitutions offers insightful overviews of the general and specific problems that have confronted America's constitution writers since the country's founding. Each chapter reflects the constitutional theory and history of a single state, encompassing each document's structure, content, and evolution"--Provided by publisher.

Beyond Two Worlds

Beyond Two Worlds
Author: James Joseph Buss
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2014-08-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1438453418

Examines the origins, efficacy, legacy, and consequences of envisioning both Native and non-Native “worlds.” Beyond Two Worlds brings together scholars of Native history and Native American studies to offer fresh insights into the methodological and conceptual significance of the “two-worlds framework.” They address the following questions: Where did the two-worlds framework originate? How has it changed over time? How does it continue to operate in today’s world? Most people recognize the language of binaries birthed by the two-worlds trope—savage and civilized, East and West, primitive and modern. For more than four centuries, this lexicon has served as a grammar for settler colonialism. While many scholars have chastised this type of terminology in recent years, the power behind these words persists. With imagination and a critical evaluation of how language, politics, economics, and culture all influence the expectations that we place on one another, the contributors to this volume rethink the two-worlds trope, adding considerably to our understanding of the past and present.

Capitol Park

Capitol Park
Author: Jack Dempsey
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2014-03-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1625848676

Capitol Park is the only city park in America where a state's first governor is buried. It's the birthplace of democracy in Michigan. Underground Railroad site. Streetcar and transit hub. Urban canyon. A block north of Detroit's iconic Coney Island restaurants. A symbol of the city's late twentieth-century decay, now a key part of its revitalization in a new millennium. Jack Dempsey, award-winning author of "Michigan and the Civil War" and president of the Michigan Historical Commission, uncovers tales of a uniquely inspirational public space that epitomizes the ups and downs of Detroit's three centuries.