Recently added articles from Michigan Historical Review:
Introduction: emerging Borderlands.
Mar 22, 2008; Faires, Nora ... Surrounded by four of the Great Lakes, Michigan occupies a distinct space in a transnational region marked by centuries of cultural, economic, environmental, political, and social interaction. To explore this facet of the state's history, the spring and fall 2008 volumes of the Michigan ...
Writing Michigan history from a transborder perspective.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Gray, Susan E. ... Histories of individual American states constitute a peculiar kind of political history. Pivoting on the fact of statehood, these works invariably combine a geopolitical narrative of how a state came into existence with a heavily social and economic account of the subsequent fortunes of ...
Apples on the border: orchards and the contest for the Great Lakes.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Kerrigan, William ... In the fall of 1791 Elkanah Watson toured western New York, searching for real-estate opportunities. Ten years earlier there had been few white settlements in this region; it was the heart of Iroquois country. But the American Revolution had shattered the power of the Six Nations. The war ...
After the conquest: Michilimackinac, a borderland in transition, 1760-1763.
Mar 22, 2008; Widder, Keith R. ... On the morning of June 2, 1763, opposing teams of Ojibwe and Sac warriors played a game of baggatiway or lacrosse outside the land gate of Fort Michilimackinac. The Ojibwe used the contest as a ruse to surprise British officers and soldiers who had gathered to watch the action. When a ball ...
Merchant representatives and the French river world, 1763-1803.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Englebert, Robert ... The French empire in North America came to an abrupt end with the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1763. (1) With the "scratch of a pen," as Colin G. Calloway has explained it, the map of North America was drastically altered. (2) New France and the Illinois Country on the east side of ...
The transformation of the Detroit land market and the formation of the Anglo-American border, 1783-1796.(Detroit, Michigan)
Mar 22, 2008; Hatter, Lawrence B.A. ... In November 1783, British diplomats in Paris agreed to cede the vast territory of the trans-Appalachian west to the newly independent United States of America as part of the treaty that ended the Revolutionary War. For many residents of the Great Lakes, however, the freshly minted ...
The Gnadenhutten effect: Moravian converts and the search for safety in the Canadian borderlands.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Bowes, John P. ... In a journal entry composed on April 8, 1782, Moravian missionary David Zeisberger penned a critical observation: "The world is already too narrow." It had been a month since an American militia unit under the command of Lt. Col. David Williamson had systematically killed ninety-six men, ...
The road to ruin? "Civilization" and the origins of a "Michigan Road Band" of Potawatomi.(2007 Student Essay Prize Winner)(Essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Secunda, Ben ... A road can be a very boring thing, until someone wants to build one across your land. Today road building often evokes heated debates over property, commerce, traffic, tradition, and even race and culture. In this regard, little has changed since 1826. The Michigan Road cut through the ...
Daniel P. Barr, ed.: The Boundaries between Us: Natives and Newcomers along the Frontiers of the Old Northwest Territory, 1750-1850.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Carroll, James T. ... Daniel P. Barr, ed. The Boundaries between Us: Natives and Newcomers along the Frontiers of the Old Northwest Territory, 1750-1850. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2006. Pp. 261. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Cloth, $52.00. The Boundaries between Us examines the dynamic ...
Kevin L. Borg. Auto Mechanics." Technology and Expertise in Twentieth-Century America.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Gangloff, Amy ... Kevin L. Borg. Auto Mechanics." Technology and Expertise in Twentieth-Century America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Pp. 249. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $50.00. In this enjoyable book, Kevin L. Borg skillfully examines the history of ...
Anna-Lisa Cox. A Stronger Kinship: One Town's Extraordinary Story of Hope and Faith.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Hill, Kimberly ... Anna-Lisa Cox. A Stronger Kinship: One Town's Extraordinary Story of Hope and Faith. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. Pp. 288. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. Tables. Paper, $19.95. Historians often look for various types of lessons in past ...
David M. P. Freund. Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Greason, Walter D. ... David M. P. Freund. Colored Properly: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. 496. Bibliography. Drawings. Index. Maps. Notes. Photographs. Cloth, $35.00. Charging a title with references to the histories of ...
Alan D. Gaff. Bayonets in the Wilderness: Anthony Wayne's Legion in the Old Northwest.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Bates, Christopher ... Alan D. Gaff. Bayonets in the Wilderness." Anthony Wayne's Legion in the Old Northwest. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. Pp. 419. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $39.95. Given the awesome might of the armed forces that won the Civil War and both ...
Sharon A. Roger Hepburn. Crossing the Border." A Free Black Community in Canada.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Lee, Maureen Elgersman ... Sharon A. Roger Hepburn. Crossing the Border." A Free Black Community in Canada. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. Pp. 272. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. Cloth, $40.00. The past few years have seen an outpouring of writing on black Canadian history and black ...
Mark Hoffman. "My Brave Mechanics": The First Michigan Engineers and Their Civil War.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Zeman, Theodore J. ... Mark Hoffman. "My Brave Mechanics": The First Michigan Engineers and Their Civil War. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2007. Pp. 470. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Maps. Notes. Tables. Cloth, $44.95. Mark Hoffman's "My Brave Mechanics" details the ...
Susan Kalter, ed.: Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania, and the First Nations: The Treaties of 1736-62.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Hauptman, Laurence M. ... Susan Kalter, ed. Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania, and the First Nations: The Treaties of 1736-62. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. Pp. 472. Illustrations. Index. Glossary. Maps. Notes. Cloth, $45.00. Susan Kalter, associate professor of American as well as Native ...
Jon Latimer. 1812: War with America.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Palmer, Annette ... Jon Latimer. 1812: War with America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. 637. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Maps. Notes. Cloth, $35.00. No one has done for the almost-forgotten War of 1812 what Jon Latimer does in the refreshing, authoritative, and ...
Samuel S. Marquis. Introduction by David Lewis. Henry Ford: An Interpretation.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Halpern, Martin ... Samuel S. Marquis. Introduction by David Lewis. Henry Ford: An Interpretation. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2007. Pp. 224. Index. Paper, $24.95. The republication of Samuel Marquis's Henry Ford: An Interpretation brings to modern readers interested in Michigan and ...
Charlie Savage. Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Friedman, Jason ... Charlie Savage. Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy. New York: Little, Brown, 2007. Pp. 416. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Cloth, $25.99. In a thorough analysis of the first six-plus years of the George W. Bush--Dick Cheney ...
Jeremy Schaap. Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Ingrassia, Brian M. ... Jeremy Schaap. Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. Pp. 272. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $24.00. On May 25, 1935, Ohio State University track phenomenon Jesse Owens broke or tied four world ...