American History
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When Detroit Played the Numbers
Gambling's History and Cultural Impact on the Motor City
How Detroit entrepreneurs created a thriving lottery system to support themselves and uplift their communities despite scandal.
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Movie-Made Los Angeles
The proto-cinematic visual culture of Los Angeles that set the scene for modern Hollywood.
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I Hope This Reaches You
An American Soldier’s Account of World War I
A medic’s account of life during World War I.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814347072
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814347089
Charles Godfrey Leland and His Magical Tales
A lively selection of Charles Godfrey Leland’s unique nineteenth-century tales.
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ISBN: 9780814347867
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ISBN: 9780814347850
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ISBN: 9780814347874
The Israeli-American Connection
Its Roots in the Yishuv, 1914-1945
An examination of the ways in which the American experience influenced some of the major Jewish leaders during and between the world wars.
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ISBN: 9780814344590
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ISBN: 9780814344583
Independent Man
The Life of Senator James Couzens
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.
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ISBN: 9780814343968
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814335871
The Iron Hunter
Autobiography of Michigan’s controversial governor from the Upper Peninsula.
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ISBN: 9780814343951
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ISBN: 9780814335857
"Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights"
Michigan, 1948-1968
"Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights" documents an important shift in state level policy to make clear that civil rights in Michigan embraced all people.
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ISBN: 9780814343289
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ISBN: 9780814343296

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Detroit 1967
Origins, Impacts, Legacies
Examines relationships between black and white Detroit residents through the lens of 1967, fifty years later.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814343036
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814343043
From Tinseltown to Bordertown
Los Angeles on Film
Close readings that look for "the real Los Angeles" in a selection of contemporary movies.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814339855
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814339862
Luke Karamazov
A vivd and detailed portrait of serial murder brothers Luke Karamazov and Tommy Searl.
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ISBN: 9780814342886
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ISBN: 9780814318560

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A Fluid Frontier
Slavery, Resistance, and the Underground Railroad in the Detroit River Borderland
New research on the long, shared struggle for freedom by people of African descent in the Detroit River borderland from a uniquely bi-national perspective.
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ISBN: 9780814339596
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814339602
Transnational Traditions
New Perspectives on American Jewish History
Demonstrates the variety, complexity, and ramifications of the contacts and connections between Jews in America and their co-religionists abroad.
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ISBN: 9780814338612
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ISBN: 9780814338629

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The Art of Memory
Historic Cemeteries of Grand Rapids, Michigan
Traces the history of the cemetery in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America, with a specific discussion of the art, architecture, and history of the cemeteries of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814340196
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814340202
Images from the Arsenal of Democracy
A photographic history of the American automobile industry’s World War II defense production.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814339817
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814339824
Father Abraham's Children
Michigan Episodes in the Civil War
Collects anecdotes, legends, stories, and reminiscences of Civil War veterans from a wide variety of written sources and personal interviews, in paperback for the first time.
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ISBN: 9780814339572
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814339589
Cinema and Community
Progressivism, Exhibition, and Film Culture in Chicago, 1907-1917
Investigates how progressivism structured many aspects of understudied era of cinema.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814337257
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814337264

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"Old Slow Town"
Detroit during the Civil War
Details Detroit's tumultuous social, political, and military history during the Civil War.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814336038
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ISBN: 9780814339305

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Arsenal of Democracy
The American Automobile Industry in World War II
Examines the role of the American automobile industry in producing vehicles, weapons, and other war products during World War II.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814339510
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ISBN: 9780814339527
The Political Activities of Detroit Clubwomen in the 1920s
A Challenge and a Promise
Follows the work of Detroit women's organizations as they dealt with issues related to voting, industrialization, and immigration.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814338155
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814338162