Michigan Historical Review back issues from March 1999:
Mixed-race identity in a nineteenth-century family: the Schoolcrafts of Sault Ste. Marie, 1824-27. (1998 Student Essay Prize Winner).
Mar 22, 1999; ... In the autumn of 1824 the Schoolcraft family set out from Sault Ste. Marie, at the mouth of Lake Superior in northern Michigan Territory, to visit New York City. For Jane, who had seldom left the remote village where she was born, this was her first visit. It was the first time Henry had ...
Women and lay activism: aspects of acculturation in the German Lutheran Churches of Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1870 - 1917.
Mar 22, 1999; ... On January 18,1914 the German Erste Evangelisch-Lutherische Zion Kirche (First Evangelical-Lutheran Zion Church) of Ann Arbor held a celebration. The women's society of the church marked twenty-five years of existence with a church service, musical presentations, and an enormous banquet ...
From reading Shakespeare to reforming burlesque: the Minneapolis Woman's Club and the Women's Welfare League, 1907-1920.
Mar 22, 1999; ... In 1915 William Koenig, manager of Minneapolis's Gayety theater, received a letter describing a burlesque show soon to appear on his stage. "It is a very beautiful act and one that I am sure will cause considerable comment," wrote I. H. Herk, the main booking agent for burlesque shows in ...
Jobs and justice: Detroit, fair employment, and federal activism during the Second World War.
Mar 22, 1999; ... In the history of the American home front during the Second World War, Detroit holds a special place, as the Motor City was at the heart of major wartime transformations. The conversion to war production resuscitated the city's industries, and Detroit became a main production center for ...
More than a union: the teaching assistants association and its 1970 strike against the University of Wisconsin.
Mar 22, 1999; ... Meeting at Port Huron, Michigan in 1962, the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) issued a manifesto outlining the worldview of a new generation of young radicals. The Port Huron Statement, which articulated the basic principles of the New Left student movement of the 1960s, envisioned ...
The great lakes in Philadelphia: archival report.
Mar 22, 1999; ... American Philosophical Society 105 South Fifth Street Philadelphia, PA 19106-3386 The American Philosophical Society (APS) traces its roots to 1743, when the Quaker botanist John Bartram suggested that the American colonies might benefit from an organization "for promoting ...
The new deal. (Bibliography).(Brief Article)(Bibliography)
Mar 22, 1999; ... The New Deal, following the onset of the disastrous Great Depression, represented perhaps the most significant expansion of the federal government's role and responsibility in the twentieth century. It established a number of assumptions that still prevail in our nation's political life, ...
All-American Anarchist: Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement. (Book Reviews).
Mar 22, 1999; ... Carlotta R. Anderson. All-American Anarchist: Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998. Pp. 328. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Cloth, $34.95. The author of this biography of Joseph A. Labadie is his granddaughter and journalist ...
Scandinavian Immigrants and Education in North America. (Book Reviews).
Mar 22, 1999; ... Philip J. Anderson, Dag Blanck, and Peter Kivisto, eds. Scandinavian Immigrants and Education in North America. Chicago: Swedish-American Historical Society, 1995. Pp. 224. Illustrations. Cloth, $24.95; paper, $19.95. This book is a collection of well-researched and interesting ...
BF Goodrich: Tradition and Transformation, 1870-1995. (Book Reviews).
Mar 22, 1999; ... Mansel G. Blackford and K. Austin Kerr. BF Goodrich: Tradition and Transformation, 1870-1995. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 1996. Illustrations. Appendixes. Index. Pp. 507. Cloth, $35.00. This is a meticulously researched biography of a company that for most of its ...
Organized Labor and American Politics, 1894-1994: The Labor-Liberal Alliance. (Book Reviews).
Mar 22, 1999; ... Kevin Boyle, ed. Organized Labor and American Politics, 1894-1994: The Labor-Liberal Alliance. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. Pp. 274. Index. Paper, $23.95. Kevin Boyle is to be commended for introducing and structuring Organized Labor and American Politics so ...
Big Bill Thompson, Chicago, and the Politics of Image. (Book Reviews).
Mar 22, 1999; ... Douglas Bukowski. Big Bill Thompson, Chicago, and the Politics of Image. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. Pp. 280. Illustrations. Index. Cloth, $49.95; paper $21.95. Focusing on one of Chicago's most controversial and flamboyant mayors, Douglas Bukowski has produced a ...
Main Street Blues: The Decline of Small-Town America. (Book Reviews).
Mar 22, 1999; ... Richard O. Davies. Main Street Blues: The Decline of Small-Town America. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998. Pp. 234. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $20.00. Main Street Blues is a history of Camden, Ohio, a village thirty-five miles southwest ...
Frontier Illinois. (Book Reviews).
Mar 22, 1999; ... James E. Davis. Frontier Illinois. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. Pp. 542. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Cloth, $35.00. Frontier Illinois by James E. Davis is the fourth book in Indiana University Press's new History of the Trans-Appalachian Frontier series ....
The Fifties Spiritual Marketplace: American Religion in a Decade of Conflict. (Book Reviews).
Mar 22, 1999; ... Robert S. Ellwood. The Fifties Spiritual Marketplace: American Religion in a Decade of Conflict. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997. Pp. 271. Index. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $18.95. The 1950s serve in current polemics as a base line from which to measure the recent ...
Immigrants and Ethnics in Polish Chicago, 1976-1990. (Book Reviews).
Mar 22, 1999; ... Mary Patrice Erdmans. Immigrants and Ethnics in Polish Chicago, 1976-1990. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. Pp. 267. Tables. Index. Bibliography. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $19.95. Mary Patrice Erdmans, an assistant professor of sociology at the ...
New Faces of the Fur Trade: Selected Papers of the Seventh North American Fur Trade Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1995. (Book Reviews).
Mar 22, 1999; ... Jo-Anne Fiske, Susan Sleeper-Smith, and William Wickem, eds. New Faces of the Fur Trade: Selected Papers of the Seventh North American Fur Trade Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1995. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1998. Pp. 358. Illustrations. Index. Cloth, $39.95. ...
In Face of the Facts: Moral Inquiry in American Scholarship. (Book Reviews).
Mar 22, 1999; ... Richard Wightman Fox and Robert B. Westbrook, eds. In Face of the Facts: Moral Inquiry in American Scholarship. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. 300. Index. Cloth, $49.95. This volume of essays grew from a conference assessing the place of moral inquiry in ...
The Detroit Tigers: Club & Community, 1945-1995. (Book Reviews).
Mar 22, 1999; ... Patrick Harrigan. The Detroit Tigers: Club & Community, 1945-1995. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. Pp. 415. Illustrations. Appendixes. Index. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $24.95. Patrick Harrigan, a history professor at the University of Waterloo in Canada, has written an ...
These Men Have Seen Hard Service: The First Michigan Sharpshooters in the Civil War. (Book Reviews).
Mar 22, 1999; ... Raymond J. Herek. These Men Have Seen Hard Service: The First Michigan Sharpshooters in the Civil War. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998. Pp. 584. Illustrations. Appendixes. Index. Cloth, $39.95. Raymond J. Herek's fine study of the First Michigan Sharpshooters tells ...
Laboring for Freedom: A New Look at the History of Labor in America. (Book Reviews).
Mar 22, 1999; ... Daniel Jacoby. Laboring for Freedom: A New Look at the History of Labor in America. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1998. Pp. 224. Bibliography, Index. Cloth, $61.95; paper, $22.95. Daniel Jacoby has chosen labor as the raw material for an intriguing meditation on the concept of ...
Painting the Town: A History of Art in Saugatuck and Douglas. (Book Reviews).
Mar 22, 1999; ... Kit Lane and Mary Hart. Painting the Town: A History of Art in Saugatuck and Douglas. Douglas, MI: The Saugatuck-Douglas Historical Society, 1997. Pp. 61. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Paper, $15.00. Today the cities of Saugatuck and Douglas, set on the Kalamazoo River ...
Daily Life in the United States, 1960-1990: Decades of Discord. (Book Reviews).
Mar 22, 1999; ... Myron A. Marty. Daily Life in the United States, 1960-1990: Decades of Discord. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Co., 1997. Pp. 371. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Cloth, $45.00. The title Daily Life in the United States, 1960-1990: Decades of Discord does not evoke great ...
Indians in the United States and Canada: A Comparative History. (Book Reviews).
Mar 22, 1999; ... Roger L. Nichols. Indians in the United States and Canada: A Comparative History. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. Pp. 383. Illustrations. Index. Bibliography. Cloth, $60.00. Roger Nichols's Indians in the United States and Canada: A Comparative History represents a ...
David Zeisberger: A Life Among the Indians. (Book Reviews).
Mar 22, 1999; ... Earl P. Olmstead. David Zeisberger: A Life Among the Indians. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1997. Pp. 439. Illustrations. Bibliography. Appendixes. Index. Cloth, $39.00. David Zeisberger was a Moravian missionary who labored among North American native peoples for ...
Party Spirit in a Frontier Republic: Democratic Politics in Ohio, 1793-1821. (Book Reviews).
Mar 22, 1999; ... Donald J. Ratcliffe. Party Spirit in a Frontier Republic: Democratic Politics in Ohio, 1793-1821. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. Pp. 334. Index. Bibliography. Maps. Cloth, $52.50; paper, $22.95. In Party Spirit in a Frontier Republic, Donald J. Ratcliffe offers an ...
Bridging the River of Hatred: The Pioneering Efforts of Detroit Police Commissioner George Edwards. (Book Reviews).
Mar 22, 1999; ... Mary M. Stolberg. Bridging the River of Hatred: The Pioneering Efforts of Detroit Police Commissioner George Edwards. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998. Pp. 347. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Cloth, $34.95. Mary Stolberg's beautifully written biography of ...
The Union Makes Us Strong: Radical Unionism on the San Francisco Waterfront. (Book Reviews).
Mar 22, 1999; ... David Wellman. The Union Makes Us Strong: Radical Unionism on the San Francisco Waterfront. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. 364. Illustrations. Indexes. Cloth, $64.95. This book mounts a strong argument against a long-prevailing view in historical and ...
Taking Heaven By Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America. (Book Reviews).
Mar 22, 1999; ... John H. Wigger. Taking Heaven By Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. 269. Illustrations. Appendix. Index. Cloth, $55.00. Nathan Hatch's The Democratization of American Christianity (1989) has initiated ...
The Wisconsin Frontier. (Book Reviews).
Mar 22, 1999; ... Mark Wyman. The Wisconsin Frontier. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. Pp. 360. Illustrations. Index. Cloth, $29.95. Despite the assault of the new western historians, the frontier refuses to die. Most recently, Indiana University Press has initiated a series on the ...
Book notes.
Mar 22, 1999; ... Allen, Minnie and Edward Allen. Translated by Julius W. Allen. Tenderness & Turmoil: Letters to a German Mother, 1914-1920. Santa Ana, CA: Seven Locks Press, 1998. Pp. 283. Paper, $14.95. An immigrant bride, Minnie Allen, wrote these letters to her German mother during World War ...
Editor's Page.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
Mar 22, 1999 ... Jeremy Mumford's prizewinning essay, which opens this issue, explores themes of cultural identity and interchange between Native Americans and European Americans through the poignant story of one couple's promising yet troubled marriage. These are themes that have figured prominently in ...