Search
Type
Format
Sort
Location
Audience

Borgerson, Janet

Summary: "This book presents a visually compelling collection of vintage dance record covers from the golden age of album cover design and discusses their contribution to the story of American identity"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Entertain Borgerson

Bomey, Nathan

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: At exactly 4:06 p.m. on July 18, 2013, the city of Detroit filed for bankruptcy. It was the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history—the Motor City had finally hit rock bottom. But what led to that fateful day, and how did the city survive the perilous months that followed? In Detroit Resurrected, Nathan Bomey delivers the inside story of the fight to save Detroit against impossible...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 BOM

Summary: Heaven Was Detroit: From Jazz to Hip Hop and Beyond is the first of its kind to capture the full spectrum of Detroit popular music from the early 1900s to the twenty-first century. Readers will find in this unique and stimulating anthology new essays, and a few classics, by widely known and respected music writers, critics, and recording artists who weigh in on their careers and experiences in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 HEA

Kent, Timothy J.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Fox Enterprises 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.401 KEN
1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL RM 977.401 KEN

Doonan, Simon

Summary: Paying homage to Lou Reed's groundbreaking album Transformer on its fiftieth anniversary, this first-hand account of the album's impact on the LGBTQIA+ community captures a pivotal moment when those long silenced were finally given a voice.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 DOO

Boyd, Herb

Summary: "Award-winning journalist Herb Boyd chronicles the fascinating history of Detroit through the lens of the African American experience. Offering an expansive discussion of this iconic city, Black Detroit ranges in subject from Antoine de Lamothe Cadillac's initial vision of what would become a thriving metropolis to the city's glory days as the center of American commerce; from the waves of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 BOY

Comstock, Lyndon.

Summary: A biography of Annie Clemenc, who led the 1913 strike by copper miners employed by the Calumet & Hecla Mining Company in upper Michigan. It covers her childhood, her work in the Slovenian immigrant community in Calumet, Michigan, her participation in the copper strike, and her subsequent life in Chicago.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: L. Comstock 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CLEMENC, ANNIE COM

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B CLEMENC COM

Van Dusen, Gerald C.

Summary: In 1941, a real estate developer in northwest Detroit faced a dilemma. He needed federal financing for white clients purchasing lots in a new subdivision abutting a community of mostly African Americans. When the banks deemed the development too risky because of potential racial tension, the developer proposed a novel solution. He built a six-foot-tall, one-foot-thick concrete barrier extending...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The History Press 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 VAN

Summary: We often think that people from a thousand years ago were living in the Dark Ages. But from the 7th century onward in Muslim civilization there were amazing advances and inventions that still influence our everyday lives. People living in the Muslim world saw what the Egyptians, Chinese, Indians, Greek, and Romans had discovered and spent the next one thousand years adding new developments and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 297.2 ONE

Arnaud, Michel

Summary: [This book] is a visual essay on the rebuilding and resurgence of the city of Detroit by photographer Michel Arnaud, co-author of Design Brooklyn. In recent years, much of the focus on Detroit has been on the negative stories and images of shuttered, empty buildings-- the emblems of Detroit's financial and physical decline. In contrast, Arnaud aims his lens at the emergent creative enterprises...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2017

Sorry, no copies available

Place a hold to request this item.

Kaunonen, Gary.

Summary: A mirror of great changes that were occurring on the national labor rights scene, the 1913–14 Michigan Copper Strike was a time of unprecedented social upheaval in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. With organized labor taking an aggressive stance against the excesses of unfettered capitalism, the stage was set for a major struggle between labor and management. The Michigan Copper Strike received...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2013

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.49 KAU

McEnaney, Marla J.

Summary: An assessment of agricultural and cultural landscape resources in the Port Oneida Rural Historic District at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan. This illustrated study is replete with pictures, maps, diagrams, and census records.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Midwest Regional Office, National Park Service 1995

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 631.47 MCE

Szymanski, Stefan

Summary: "A history of Detroit and the central role that sports have played in the city during the twentieth century"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.09774 SZY

Breihan, Tom

Summary: A narrative of the history of popular music through the lens of twenty pivotal hits at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, which began in 1958, reveals a remarkably fluid and connected story of music.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.4216 BRE

Anderson, Carlotta R.

Summary: "All-American Anarchist chronicles the life and work of Joseph A. Labadie (1850-1933), Detroit's prominent labor organizer and one of early labor's most influential activists. A dynamic participant in the major social reform movements of the Gilded Age, Labadie was a central figure in the pervasive struggle for a new social order as the American Midwest underwent rapid industrialization at the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1998

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LABADIE, JO AND

Naldrett, Alan.

Summary: "Among more than two hundred auto companies that tried their luck in the Motor City, just three remain: Ford, General Motors and Chrysler. But many of those lost to history have colorful stories worth telling. For instance, J.J. Cole forgot to put brakes in his new auto, so on the first test run, he had to drive it in circles until it ran out of gas. Brothers John and Horace Dodge often trashed...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: History Press 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2 NAL

Rucker, Mark.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Arcadia Pub. 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 RUC

Miles, Tiya

Summary: Most Americans believe that slavery was a creature of the South, and that Northern states and territories provided stops on the Underground Railroad for fugitive slaves on their way to Canada. In this paradigm-shifting book, celebrated historian Tiya Miles reveals that slavery was at the heart of the Midwest's iconic city: Detroit. In this richly researched and eye-opening book, Miles has...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2017

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 MIL

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 MIL

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI South Miles

Cleland, Charles E.

Summary: For many thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans, Michigan's native peoples, the Anishnabeg, thrived in the forests and along the shores of the Great Lakes. Theirs were cultures in delicate social balance and in economic harmony with the natural order. Rites of Conquest details the struggles of Michigan Indians - the Ojibwa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi, and their neighbors - to maintain...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Michigan Press 1992

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 CLE
1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 970.1 CLE

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4 CLE

English, T. J.

Summary: "From T.J. English, the New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne, comes the epic, scintillating narrative of the interconnected worlds of jazz and organized crime in 20th century America"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.4 ENG

Brownstein, Ronald

Summary: Documents the kaleidoscopic year during which transformative talents from Hollywood, Sunset Boulevard, and Beverly Hills heavily influenced pop culture, politics, and social movements.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

Sorry, no copies available

Place a hold to request this item.

Grad, Eli.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Produced for Congregation Shaarey Zedek, Southfield, Mich. by Wayne State University Press 1982

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.377438 Congregation Supplement
Call number: R GEN 929.377438 Roth

Maynard, Micheline

Summary: "From an accomplished national journalist, a lively look at the inception, growth, future, and unique management style of Zingerman's-a beloved, $70 million-dollar Michigan-based specialty food store with global reach. Certain businesses are legendary, exerting immense influence in their field. Zingerman's in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is one of those places. Over the years the flagship deli has...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.4 MAY

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Misc Maynard

Ali-Khan, Sofia

2 holds on 2 copies

Summary: "A leading advocate for social justice excavates the history of forced migration in the twelve American towns she's called home, revealing how White supremacy has fundamentally shaped the nation"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALI

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALI-KHAN, SOFIA ALI

chat loading...
Back to Top