History

Selections from the diary of Mordecai Kaplan, founder of Reconstructionism in America, detailing a provocative firsthand account of Jewish life in America and of the mind of a very challenging thinker.

A chronological history of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, the site of the city of Detroit’s landmark bankruptcy case.

Examines an alternative ideology to Zionism that attempted to build a Jewish State outside of Palestine.

Examines a major Michigan timber baron and political figure who also founded a coal-mining empire in Kentucky.

Details Reverend Bradby’s work during the Great Migration and the interwar period, when his Second Baptist Church became an important hub for Detroit’s African American community.

Demonstrates the variety, complexity, and ramifications of the contacts and connections between Jews in America and their co-religionists abroad.

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

Explores the Romanian government's role in the initial killing operations of the Holocaust in 1941.

Explores interactions among the diverse inhabitants on the American and Canadian sides of the Detroit River who were bitterly divided by the War of 1812.