American History

The proto-cinematic visual culture of Los Angeles that set the scene for modern Hollywood.

A lively selection of Charles Godfrey Leland’s unique nineteenth-century tales.

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.

"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.

Close readings that look for "the real Los Angeles" in a selection of contemporary movies.

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.

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.

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.

Details Detroit's tumultuous social, political, and military history during the Civil War.