Michigan Historical Review back issues from March 2003:
Promoting Cloverland: regional associations, state agencies, and the creation of Michigan's Upper Peninsula Tourist Industry. (2002 Student Essay Prize Winner).
Mar 22, 2003; ... If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you. --Motto on the Great Seal of the State of Michigan The upper peninsula of Michigan, rich beyond telling in the possibilities of agriculture, forestry, mining, fruit, cattle raising and diversified manufacturers stands ...
"A common feeling": regional identity and historical consciousness in the old northwest, 1820-1860.
Mar 22, 2003; ... Regional identifies are problematic constructions. They are often as imprecise as they are subjective and as ironic as they are relative. Regions are complex cognitive and social landscapes, and the nature of regionalism has been a topic of sustained debate among historians, geographers, ...
From socialism to racism: the politics of class and identity in postwar Milwaukee.
Mar 22, 2003; ... On April 3, 1956, voters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, went to the polls to choose their mayor in an election that pitted two-term incumbent and Socialist Party member Frank P. Zeidler against Milton J. McGuire, a conservative Democrat who chaired the city's common council. Ostensibly, ...
Perry Bullard: liberal lawmaker, 1972-1992.
Mar 22, 2003; ... I'm not sure that history will pay that much attention to him .... The fact is that many of the laws that he sponsored--Open Meetings Act, Auto Lemon Law, the Freedom of Information Act, many, many others--roll off the tongues of thousands of Michiganians every day, but precious few have ...
Ambivalence and cigarettes: Egon Erwin Kisch's "at Ford's place in Detroit," with a translation of the text.
Mar 22, 2003; ... Restless, curious, and captivating, Egon Erwin Kisch was known during the years between the past century's two world wars as "the raging reporter" (1) for his part in the development of reportage, a form of journalism based on fact, but as inviting and stylized as fiction. Kisch was born ...
Jeffrey Abt. A Museum on the Verge: a Socioeconomic History of the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1882-2000.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2003; ... Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2001. Pp. 315. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Cloth, $29.95. Sparked by the funding crisis at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) in the 1990s, Jeffrey Abt turns an analysis of that crisis into a probing study of the fiscal ...
Philip J. Anderson and Dag Blanck, eds. Swedes in the Twin Cities: Immigrant Life and Minnesota's Urban Frontier.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2003; ... St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2001. Pp. 367. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Cloth, $34.95. In 1996 the American Swedish Institute, the Minnesota Historical Society, and the Swedish-American Historical Society brought together a group of scholars from a ...
Francis M. Carroll. A Good and Wise Measure: the Search for the Canadian-American Boundary, 1783-1842.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2003; ... Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. Pp. 462. Bibliography. Index. Maps. Cloth, $75.00; paper $29.95. The story of the Canadian-American boundary between the Atlantic Ocean and Lake of the Woods is a tangled web of political rivalries and borderland conflicts. Francis ...
Andrew R. L. Cayton. Ohio: the History of a People.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2003; ... Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2002. Pp. 472. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Cloth, $48.75. Andrew Cayton wrote Ohio: The History of a People as the obligatory book marking the state's bicentennial celebration of statehood in 2003. In his introduction, Cayton ...
Gregory Evans Dowd. War under Heaven: Pontiac, the Indian Nations, and the British Empire.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2003; ... War under Heaven: Pontiac, the Indian Nations, and the British Empire. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Pp. 360. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Cloth, $32.00. In the 240 years since Native Americans launched a series of attacks on British military posts and ...
Deborah Davis Jackson. Our Elders Lived It: American Indian Identity in the City.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2003; ... DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2002. Pp. 191. Bibliography. Index. Map. Photographs. Cloth, $38.00; paper, $20.00. Deborah Davis Jackson explores American Indian identity in a mid-sized, industrialized upper Great Lakes city. She attempts to discover both "who might ...
Katharine B. Judson, ed. Native American Legends of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Valley.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2003; ... DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2000. Pp. 204. Bibliography. Index. Introduction. Cloth, $38.00; paper, $18.00. This collection of 102 American-Indian tales is a reprint of the 1914 edition rifled Myths and Legends of the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes. The ...
Paul R. Kavieff. The Violent Years: Prohibition and the Detroit Mobs.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2003; ... Fort Lee, N.J.: Barricade Books, 2001. Pp. 227. Bibliography. Photographs. Cloth, $22.00. The Violent Years: Prohibition and the Detroit Mobs describes in rich and energetic detail the lives and organizational activities of men who ranked among the most active members of ...
Anne Meis Knupfer. Reform and Resistance: Gender, Delinquency, and America's First Juvenile Court.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2003; ... New York: Routledge, 2001. Pp. 256. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Paper, $22.95. Anne Meis Knupfer focuses on the Cook County Juvenile Court in Chicago to argue that female juvenile delinquency in Chicago during the Progressive Era was increasingly saturated by the ...
Kenneth E. Lewis. West to far Michigan: Settling the Lower Peninsula, 1815-1860.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2003; ... East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2002. Pp. 514. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Maps. Cloth, $64.95. Turning away from the themes of cultural conflict and exchange highlighted in recent American frontier studies, anthropologist Kenneth E. Lewis focuses on ...
Carolyn S. Loeb. Entrepreneurial Vernacular: Developers' Subdivisions in the 1920s.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2003; ... Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. 273. Bibliography. Index. Cloth, $45.00. Loeb's book helps us understand the roots of a significant trend in American housing after World War II: the construction of many large-scale, speculative suburban subdivisions. She ...
Jeffrey D. Marlett, Saving the Heartland: Catholic Missionaries in Rural America, 1920-1960.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2003; ... DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2002. Pp. 233. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. Cloth, $40.00. Students of rural Michigan religion and history will find useful material in Jeffrey D. Marlett's book, which explains the agenda and theology of Catholic agrarians. In ...
George Nelson. My First Years in the Fur Trade: the Journals of 1802-1804.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2003; ... Laura Peers and Theresa Schenck, eds. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2002. Pp. 234. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Cloth, $29.95. My First Years in the Fur Trade is the first in what editors Laura Peers and Theresa Schenck promise will be a series of ...
Chase S Osborn. The Iron Hunter.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2003; ... Introduction by Robert M. Warner. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2002. Pp. 288. Glossary. Paper, $24.95. Midwestern Progressive Era history is rich with colorful, dynamic, public officials who transformed the region into a more caring society. Mayors Tom Johnson of ...
Mary Pattillo-McCoy. Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2003; ... Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Pp. 276. Bibliography. Index. Cloth, $25.00; paper, $15.00. Lamenting that academics and the general public have preferred to focus on upwardly mobile or deeply impoverished African Americans, sociologist Mary Pattillo-McCoy sets out ...
Gerald J. Prokopowicz. All for the Regiment: the Army of the Ohio, 1861-1862.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2003; ... Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. 265. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Maps. Notes. Cloth, $34.95. Within the mass of Civil War literature, the federal Army of the Ohio has received remarkably scant scholarly notice. Among the Union's principal ...
James Schmiechen. Off the Record: the Unpublished Photographs of Bill Simmons, a Pictorial History of Saugatuck in the '40s and '50s.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2003; ... Saugatuck, Mich.: Saugatuck-Douglas Historical Society, 2001. Pp. 133. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. Paper, $35.00. Small and large collections of photographs that depict the lives of thousands of individuals and hundreds of towns across America lie undiscovered in the ...
Otis Milton Smith and Mary M. Stolberg. Looking beyond Race: the Life of Otis Milton Smith.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2003; ... Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2000. Pp. 264. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Cloth, $29.95. Former Michigan Supreme Court Justice and retired General Motors executive Otis M. Smith dictated his memoirs to Mary M. Stolberg in the three years that preceded his death ....
Robert P. Swierenga. Dutch Chicago: a History of the Hollanders in the Windy City.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2003; ... Grand Rapids, Mich.: Wm. B Eerdmans, 2002. Pp. 905. Appendices. Bibliography Index. Maps. Photographs. Cloth, $49.00. In Dutch Chicago, Robert P. Swierenga ably presents the experiences of the Dutch immigrants in Chicago from their earliest settlements in the nineteenth century ...
Lewis Walker and Ben C. Wilson. The Idlewild Community: Black Eden.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2003; ... East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2002. Pp. 268. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Cloth, $39.95. The resort in Idlewild, Michigan, that became a mecca for middle-class and professional African Americans was a product of the age of Jim Crow and a victim of the ...
Victoria W. Wolcott. Remaking Respectability: African American Women in Interwar Detroit.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2003; ... Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. 360. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $19.95. Victoria W. Wolcott's book, Remaking Respectability: African American Women in Interwar Detroit is a most welcome breakthrough in the ...
Editor's page.
Mar 22, 2003 ... This issue begins volume 29--not a good round number or even a multiple of anything, since 29 is a prime--so there is no great anniversary to celebrate. But it never hurts to say thank you. We are grateful to Central Michigan University for generous support. The office of the provost and ...