Recently added articles from Michigan Historical Review:
Creating an idyllic space: nature, technology, and campus planning at the Michigan Agricultural College, 1850 to 1975.(Report)
Sep 22, 2009; ... By the latter part of the nineteenth century, American industrialization, rapid population growth, and urbanization seemed to threaten opportunities for both economic prosperity and political democracy. Many in the middle class became alarmed as decisions about natural resources and the ...
McGuffey, Ford, Baldwin, and the Jews.(McGuffey Readers, Henry Ford and Neil Baldwin)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Henry Ford exhibited anti-Semitic attitudes throughout his life. Scholars have no definitive explanation of where these beliefs originated, although many point to political influences during Ford's youth as possible causes: an overarching xenophobia in the country as a whole as well as the ...
The completion of Michigan's WPA imprints inventory: items published 1851 to 1876.(Work Projects Administration)(Report)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Nearly everyone has heard stories about government "make-work" projects during the Great Depression. Some of these tales describe the alleged waste of taxpayer dollars, while others tout the benefits of such publicly sponsored undertakings. Whether boondoggles or beneficial enterprises, ...
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 ...