Recently added articles from Michigan Historical Review:
Habitues of the police court: criminal justice for the poor in Antebellum Detroit.(2008 Student Essay Prize Winner)(Essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The Police Court is undoubtedly the most reliable index of the lower order of city life that is accessible to the community at large. A certain degree of familiarity with its habitues is necessary to enable one to appreciate fully the peculiarities of their character, but when it is ...
Civil War recruiting and recruits from ever-changing labor pools: Midland County, Michigan, as a case study.(Case study)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The eighth federal census of June 1, 1860, can be used to estimate the size of the Northern states' pool of potential recruits into the Union armies during the years of the Civil War (1861 to 1865). (1) Because of high rates of geographical mobility before and during the war, the 1860 ...
Sault Ste. Marie as the capital of the world? Stellanova Osborn and the pursuit of the United Nations, 1945.
Mar 22, 2009; ... In April 1945, as the Second World War pressed toward its conclusion and diplomats gathered in San Francisco to draft a charter for the new United Nations organization (UN), the Evening News of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, printed a soldier's lament and call to action. In this letter, ...
"A catalyst for downtown": Detroit's Renaissance Center.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... In 1977, the first phase of the Renaissance Center opened on Detroit's riverfront, sparking controversy over the utility of private urban design and development as tools for revitalizing big cities. Supporters and critics of the new structure clashed over both its symbolism and its meaning ...
Paul Alkebulan. Survival Pending Revolution: The History of the Black Panther Party.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Paul Alkebulan. Survival Pending Revolution: The History of the Black Panther Party. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007. Pp. 216. Bibliographic essay. Bibliography. Epilogue. Index. Notes. Photographs. Cloth, $28.95. Paul Alkebulan's Survival Pending Revolution: The ...