American History

Explores how the award-winning NBC drama offered a space for vibrant conversation about U.S. politics, identity, and culture.

A lively and thorough history of Detroit’s culinary icon: the coney island hot dog.

Details the first major U.S. setback in the War of 1812 and analyzes the background and aftermath of Hull’s surrender.

Collects and analyzes letters from Jewish men and women in the early stages of migrating from Eastern Europe.

Biography of Ernie Goodman, a Detroit lawyer and political activist who played a key role in social justice cases.

Details a century and a half of copper mining along Upper Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula, from the arrival of the first incorporated mines in the 1840s until the closing of the last mine in the mid-1990s.

Explores the development of local television news and the economic and social factors that elevated it to prominence.

The Civil War letters of a young Wisconsin soldier, previously published in the Wisconsin Magazine of History, 1920–1922, are made available for the first time to a wide audience.

An exploration of the ideological conflicts and practical experiences of late-nineteenth-century American workers who pursued "cooperation" as an alternative to "competitive" capitalism.