65th Annual Michigan in Perspective: Local History Conference
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Series Editor: Thomas Klug, Wayne State University
The Great Lakes Books Series specializes in books of regional interest and importance to Michigan and the entire Great Lakes region. Inaugurated in 1986 to honor Michigan's 1987 sesquicentennial, the series currently includes titles on Michigan and regional history, the Upper Peninsula, military history, the Great Lakes and maritime history, Detroit history and culture, automotive history, art and architecture, literature, sports, ecology and the environment, and books for young readers.
Advisory Editors: Fredric C. Bohm, DeWitt, Michigan; Sandra Sageser Clark, Michigan History Center; Thomas R. Dilley, Grand Rapids, Michigan; Brian Leigh Dunnigan, Clements Library; Keith Dye, University of Michigan-Dearborn; De Witt Dykes, Oakland University; Joe Grimm, Michigan State University; Laurie Harris, Shelby Township, Michigan; Charles K. Hyde, Pittsfield, Massachusetts; Susan Higman Larsen, Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan; Philip P. Mason, Phoenix, Arizona and Eagle Harbor, Michigan; Dennis Moore, Dearborn, Michigan; Erik C. Nordberg, Walter P. Reuther Library; Deborah Smith Pollard, University of Michigan–Dearborn; Michael O. Smith, Bentley Historical Library; Arthur M. Woodford, Harsens Island, Michigan
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The first comprehensive biography of John and Horace Dodge and the history of their company, Dodge Brothers.
Booklist raves, Paper Valley "is a compelling human-interest tale on par with Erin Brockovich and Jonathan Harr's A Civil Action."
The compelling true story of a hard-fought environmental win, set in motion by a tenacious government scientist and a committed journalist – resulting in the polluting companies paying for the $1 billion, 20-year clean-up.
A Gilded Age industrialist - surrounded by scandal - becomes Michigan’s wealthiest resident and helps shape the nation.
Account of the critical role students played in the history of an urban public law school.
Intergenerational story of three Black women and their struggle to stake their claim to the American dream.
Examines a major Michigan timber baron and political figure who also founded a coal-mining empire in Kentucky.
A medic’s account of life during World War I.
Examines the history of the federal trial courts in Western Michigan and the Upper Peninsula.
Modern poems conceived first in Anishinaabemowin and then in English.
Describes the struggle to shape green redevelopment in Detroit.
Critical, wide-ranging analyses of Detroit’s redevelopment and alternative visions for its future.
For young readers, an illustrated true story about the women workers of World War II.
John E. Fetzer and the Quest for the New Age is the remarkable story of the spiritual search of one of Michigan’s most successful entrepreneurs, a search that culminated in the Fetzer Institute whose ambitious mission is nothing less than the spiritual transformation of the world.
Biographical sketches of twenty notable young men with ties to Michigan.
A history of the American Steel Barge Company and the vessels that it built and operated.
Examines the historical, cultural, and social history of the Canadian portion of the Detroit River community in the first half of the nineteenth century.
The life and times of Sunnie Wilson reflected on the changes in Detroit over the last sixty years.
Autobiography of Michigan’s controversial governor from the Upper Peninsula.
The only book-length biography of a major Michigan figure who served as Detroit’s mayor and contributed to the early success of the Ford Motor Company.
The field notes of a pioneering folklorist who collected the songs, stories, and cultural history of Great Lakes sailors in the 1930s.