Michigan Historical Review back issues from September 1999:
Building a better prison: the first three decades of the Detroit House of Correction.
Sep 22, 1999; ... After a visit in the mid- 1860s a pair of experts gave their studied appraisal that "the Detroit house of correction holds preeminence among the prisons of its class." (1) From time to time many others expressed similar views about this unique prison, and its superintendent found no reason ...
Waiting for water: service discrimination and Polish neighborhoods in Milwaukee, 1870-1910.
Sep 22, 1999; ... Water supply is a necessary component of modern urban life. Nineteenth-century American cities discovered this need and took steps to meet it in a variety of fashions. Several east-coast cities had some sort of supply available by 1830; by the Civil War many midwestern cities had followed ...
On the defensive: Walter Reuther's testimony before the McClellan labor rackets committee.
Sep 22, 1999; ... From January 1957 to March 1960, the United States Senate's Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field, popularly known as the McClellan Committee, pursued the most extensive investigation of labor-management relations in American history. On 30 January 1957 ...
"Our children are in danger of becoming little Indians": Protestant missionary children and Dakotas, 1835-1862.
Sep 22, 1999; ... In 1841 Mary Riggs, an evangelical Protestant missionary to the Dakotas of Minnesota, wrote to her parents that "our children are in danger of becoming little Indians in their tastes, feelings, and habits." (1) Constant contact with Dakota adults and children caused missionaries like Riggs ...
Following the north star: Canada as a haven for nineteenth-century American blacks.
Sep 22, 1999; ... Colonel Samuel Ragland, an Alabama planter, received an unusual visitor one day in the early 1850s. The caller was James Rapier, a relatively prosperous free black man, and the visit concerned Milton, one of Ragland's slaves. During a recent business trip to Toronto, Rapier had come across ...
United States civil war. (Bibliography).(Brief Article)(Bibliography)
Sep 22, 1999; ... The American Civil War stands as the great dividing point in United States history. Few events rival its historical significance or ongoing interest among both scholars and the general public. For our readers who would like a greater understanding of this pivotal time, the Michigan ...
Home and Away: The Rise and Fall of Professional Football on the Banks of the Ohio, 1919-1934. (Book Reviews).(Review)
Sep 22, 1999; ... Carl M. Becker. Home and Away: The Rise and Fall of Professional Football on the Banks of the Ohio, 1919-1934. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1998. Pp. 367. Illustrations. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. Cloth, $36.95; paper $19.95. Home and Away, by Carl Becker, captures the ...
Yours in Sisterhood: Ms. Magazine and the Promise of Popular Feminism. (Book Reviews).(Review)
Sep 22, 1999; ... Amy Erdman Farrell, Yours in Sisterhood: Ms. Magazine and the Promise of Popular Feminism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Pp. 232. Index. Bibliography. Illustrations. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $16.95. Yours in Sisterhood explores how Ms. magazine used ...
Interlochen: A Home for the Arts. (Book Reviews).(Review)
Sep 22, 1999; ... Dean Boal. Interlochen: A Home for the Arts. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998. Pp. 219. Photographs. Index. Cloth, $29.95. Dean Boal, president of Interlochen from 1989 to 1995, has written a comprehensive account of the life of the Interlochen Center for the Arts ....
Making Them Like Us: Peace Corps Volunteers in the 1960s. (Book Reviews).(Review)
Sep 22, 1999; ... Fritz Fischer. Making Them Like Us: Peace Corps Volunteers in the 1960s. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998. Pp. 237. Index. Illustrations. Cloth, $27.95. During the 1960s the Peace Corps seemed to be one of the few foreign policy successes in a decade mired in ...
Life with Father: Parenthood and Masculinity in the Nineteenth-Century American North. (Book Reviews).(Review)
Sep 22, 1999; ... Stephen M. Frank. Life with Father: Parenthood and Masculinity in the Nineteenth-Century American North. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Pp. 240. Index. Cloth, $34.95. Recently on the Internet I came across a young man who was enraged by the fact that a ...
A Face in the Rock: The Tale of a Grand Island Chippewa. (Book Reviews).(Review)
Sep 22, 1999; ... Loren R. Graham. A Face in the Rock: The Tale of a Grand Island Chippewa. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Pp. 160. Index. Illustrations. Paper, $12.95. Originally published in 1995 and now issued in paper, A Face in the Rock is a biography of Powers of the Air ...
Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673-1800. (Book Reviews).(Review)
Sep 22, 1999; ... Eric Hinderaker. Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673-1800. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. 299. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Cloth, $49.95. Eric Hinderaker has given the historical community a useful and welcome survey of the ...
Copper for America: The United States Copper Industry from Colonial Times to the 1990s. (Book Reviews).(Review)
Sep 22, 1999; ... Charles K. Hyde. Copper for America: The United States Copper Industry from Colonial Times to the 1990s. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998. Pp. 253. Index. Maps. Charts. Cloth, $40.00. Hyde's latest work sets out to construct a synthesis of the US copper industry's ...
The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement. (Book Reviews).(Review)
Sep 22, 1999; ... Julie Roy Jeffrey. The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Pp. 310. Index. Bibliography. Illustrations. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $18.95. Abolitionist men understood the centrality of ...
Nixon's Vietnam War. (Book Reviews).(Review)
Sep 22, 1999; ... Jeffrey Kimball. Nixon's Vietnam War. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. Pp. 496. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Cloth, $39.95. With this work on the conflict in Southeast Asia, Jeffrey Kimball moves to the forefront of specialists on the presidency of Richard Nixon who ...
Heroes, Rogues, and Just Plain Folks. (Book Reviews).(Review)
Sep 22, 1999; ... Kit Lane, ed., Heroes, Rogues, and Just Plain Folks. A History of the Saugatuck Area. Douglas, MI: The Saugatuck-Douglas Historical Society, 1998. Pp. 78. Illustrations. Photos. Index.. Paper, $12.95 Heroes, Rogues, and Just Plain Folks, an attractively bound, seventy-eight page ...
Political Abolitionism in Wisconsin, 1840-1861. (Book Reviews).(Review)
Sep 22, 1999; ... Michael J. McManus. Political Abolitionism in Wisconsin, 1840-1861. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1998. Pp. 288. Tables. Index. Bibliography. Cloth, $39.00. In its 1855 Independence Day editorial the Wisconsin State Journal declared that "the most prominent and ...
The Yankee International: Marxism and the American Reform Tradition, 1848-1876. (Book Reviews).(Review)
Sep 22, 1999; ... Timothy Messer-Kruse. The Yankee International: Marxism and the American Reform Tradition, 1848-1876. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Pp. 319. Index. Bibliography. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $18.95. In this engaging and vigorously argued book, Timothy ...
The war of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography. (Book Reviews).(Review)
Sep 22, 1999; ... Louis A. Perez, Jr. The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Pp. 192. Index. Bibliographical Essay. Cloth, $34.95; paper, $16.95. Of all the books that have come out with the centennial of ...
Wetlands of the American Midwest: A Historical Geography of Changing Attitudes. (Book Reviews).(Review)
Sep 22, 1999; ... Hugh Prince. Wetlands of the American Midwest: A Historical Geography of Changing Attitudes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pp. 395. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Paper, $21.00. Hugh Prince, a former editor of the Journal of Historical Geography, has a ...
Restless Visionaries: The Social Roots of Antebellum Reform in Alabama and Michigan. (Book Reviews).
Sep 22, 1999; ... John W. Quist. Restless Visionaries: The Social Roots of Antebellum Reform in Alabama and Michigan. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. Pp. 562. Tables. Bibliography. Index. Cloth, $57.50. For too long now historians of antebellum American reform have been ...
A Time for War: The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975. (Book Reviews).(Review)
Sep 22, 1999; ... Robert D. Schulzinger. A Time for War: The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. 381. Index. Illustrations. Paper, $15.95. Robert Schulzinger takes a fresh look at the Vietnam War by drawing on newly-opened archival materials and ...
Citizen Soldiers in the War of 1812. (Book Reviews).(Review)
Sep 22, 1999; ... C. Edward Skeen. Citizen Soldiers in the War of 1812. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1999. Pp. 240. Cloth, $27.50. This volume is a sweeping study of the federal government's use of state militias to bolster the regular army troops during the War of 1812. Professor ...
Religion and the American Experience: a Social and Cultural History, 1765-1997. (Book Reviews).(Review)
Sep 22, 1999; ... Donald C. Swift. Religion and the American Experience: A Social and Cultural History, 1765-1997. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1997. Pp. 315. Illustrations. Bibliography. Cloth, $66.95; paper, $25.95. Many scholars and other commentators regard the United States as an exceptionally ...
F. K. Weyerhauser: A Biography. (Book Reviews).(Review)
Sep 22, 1999; ... Charles E. Twining. F. K. Weyerhauser. A Biography. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1997. Pp. 332. Illustrations. Bibliographic Essay. Index. Cloth,. $29.95. This volume recounts the life of Frederick King Weyerhauser (1895-1978), one of the third generation to run a ...
For Faith and Fortune: The Education of Catholic Immigrants in Detroit 1805-1925. (Book Reviews).(Review)
Sep 22, 1999; ... JoEllen Vinyard. For Faith and Fortune: The Education of Catholic Immigrants in Detroit 1805-1925. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. Pp. 310. Illustrations. Index. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $18.95. JoEllen Vinyard is a highly respected scholar at Eastern Michigan ...
The Historic Architecture of Bay City, Michigan. (Book Reviews).(Review)
Sep 22, 1999; ... Dale Patrick Wolicki. The Historic Architecture of Bay City, Michigan. Midland, MI: Bay County Historical Society, 1998. Pp. 278. Index. Bibliography. Illustrations. Cloth, $35.95. I consider Dale Patrick Wolicki's The Historic Architecture of Bay City, Michigan a coffee table ...
Editor's page.
Sep 22, 1999 ... Although history may not repeat itself, this issue's articles remind us that many social and political problems are hardy perennials. In an era when prisons consume an increasing share of state budgets, it may be some consolation to realize that nineteenth-century Americans also worried ...