Biography

An important autobiography that reveals the story of William Sanders Scarborough who rose out of slavery to become a renowned classical philologist and African American icon.

Intellectual biography of Holocaust historian Lucy S. Dawidowicz.

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.

White Squall is a history of the lakes written by those who knew them best in all weather and all eras from the beginning to the present.

Autobiography of Michigan’s controversial governor from the Upper Peninsula.

Biography of Ludwig Lewisohn’s life until 1934, an imposing literary figure in America and Europe during the first half of the twentieth century.

A biography of the life of Maurice Sugar, a labor activist and lawyer for the United Auto Workers, highlighting his struggles of the early 1930s to bring the union message to Detroit.

All-American Anarchist offers a comprehensive biography of influential Detroit labor activist Joseph A. Labadie.

Shines a light on Detroit architect Wirt Rowland who, until now, has largely slipped into obscurity.