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Complementing an ecological understanding of events, this narrative details the significance of the fishery and its loss as experienced by the townspeople whose lives it touched.

Despite their achievements and their critical role in the early success of Henry Ford, John and Horace Dodge are usually overlooked in histories of the early automotive industry, but Hyde has put them front and center again to appropriately credit their lasting legacy.

Allen and Campbell eloquently outline the problematic bureaucracy involved in environmental cleanup efforts and reveal tactics to compel corporate entities who would dodge accountability for decades worth of contamination.

A vivd and detailed portrait of serial murder brothers Luke Karamazov and Tommy Searl.

Originally published in Finnish in 1967, this text brings the story of the contribution of Finnish immigrants into the mainstream of Michigan history. Firsthand experiences are combined with research in Finnish language sources to create the story of an immigrant group in Michigan's development.

A multicultural anthology of Detroit poetry from the 1930s to 2000. It is designed to explore whether poets' surroundings shape their work, and features more than 100 poets. Writing about location as if it were a living entity, the poets visualize Detroit as a variety of complex archetypes.

The story of one of America's first families of photography, documenting the history of the Goodridge studio for three-quarters of a century. It weaves photographic and regional history with the narrative of a family whose lives paralleled the social and political happenings of the country.

As the chief source of information for many people and a key revenue stream for the country's broadcast conglomerates, local television news has grown from a curiosity into a powerful journalistic and cultural force. This title explores the development of local television news and the economic and social factors that elevated it to prominence.

Part biography and part corporate history, this work investigates the life and career of Gordon M McGregor, who founded and led Ford of Canada during the first two decades of the twentieth century. It intertwines McGregor's corporate, civic, and personal lives to trace his pioneering role in the automobile industry.

This title chronicles Patrick Livingston's adventures on eight shipping vessels - only one of which survives - during the 1960s. Told from the perspective of a writer who sails rather than a sailor who writes, the tales are spiced with connections between shore and sea.

In this collection of poetry and prose, Michael Delp takes the reader back to nature and details his spiritual awakening within the freshwater of Michigan.

In 1862 at the age of 32, Centreville, Michigan, physician John Bennitt joined the 19th Michigan Infantry Regiment as an assistant surgeon and remained in military service for the rest of the war. During this time Bennitt wrote more than 200 letters home to his wife and daughters.

This work tells the story of a notable children's institution founded at the turn of the 20th century. It looks at the lives of troubled children and those who helped them, and illuminates major shifts in America's child welfare system.

This treatment of Michigan's early military forces includes the names of all known Michiganians who answered the call to arms prior to the Civil War and explains the circumstances of each major conflict.

In 1831, Father Frederic Baraga went to America from his native Slovenia to take Christianity to the Ottowa and Chippewa Indians. Twenty years later when Baraga heard that he might be named Bishop of Upper Michigan, he began to keep a diary. This text is an English translation of that diary.

A collection of stories and songs of the men who sailed the schooners on the Great Lakes in the 19th century. The book presents the music once heard on the schooners and offers a first hand musical picture of how sailors once lived aboard these ships.

This text is a history of the American city of Detroit. It covers its founding as a French colony, its time as a British fort and an American town. It emphasizes the contributions of Detroit business and industry, particularly the automobile revolution, to America's development.

This title portrays the career of George Edwards, Detroit's visionary police commissioner, whose efforts to bring racial equality, minority recruiting, and community policing to Detroit's police department in the early 1960s were met with much controversy within the city's administration.