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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

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

Kent, Timothy J.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Fox Enterprises 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

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 Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4 CLE

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 970.1 CLE

Wong, Phyllis Michael

Summary: "Phyllis Michael Wong tells the stories of the "Gossard Girls," women who sewed corsets and bras at factories in Ispheming and Gwinn in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, from the early twentieth century to the 1970s. Particularly as the Upper Peninsula's mines were exhausted and its stands of timber depleted, the Gossard Girls' income sustained both their families and the local economy"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2022

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.4 WON

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 331.4 WON

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI UP Wong

Eichman, Doris Evelyn.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: D.E. Eichman, A.E. Eichman 1997

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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 363.282 EIC

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

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

Summary: We are excited to bring you Diba Jimooyung. Found here are many of the stories of Anishinabe men and women from older times & before the coming of Europeans & along with stories and accounts that happened after European and American contact. It is our story of our experience here on Turtle Island (North American), our homeland. The writing of Diba Jimooyung has been no small undertaking, nor is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan, Ziibiwing Cultural Society 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.446 DIB

Lane, Kit

Summary: There were more than 20,000 people living in Detroit, and Michigan had already been a state for ten years when the first permanent white settlers arrived in 1847 at the head of Grand Traverse Bay, the future site of Traverse City. The draw was the magnificent stands of white pine lining the banks of a river which would later be called the Boardman. By the 1890s all of the easy pine had been...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pavilion Press 2014

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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 977.46 LAN

Walker, Sally M.

1 hold on 3 copies

Summary: "More than 20,000 American Indians served in the Civil War, yet their stories have often been left out of the history books. In [this book, the author] explores the extraordinary lives of Michigan's Anishinaabe sharpshooters. These brave soldiers served with honor and heroism in the line of duty, despite enduring broken treaties, loss of tribal lands, and racism. Filled with fascinating...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2019

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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

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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

Whiting, Jim

Summary: "Encompassing the extraordinary history of Major League Baseball's Detroit Tigers, this photo-laden narrative underscores significant players, team accomplishments, and noteworthy moments that will stand out in young sports fans' minds"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Education | Creative Paperbacks 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.357 WHI

Neumann, Glenn

Contents: Issues of: 1883, 1884 and 1885

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Elk Rapids Historical Society 1998

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.46 NEU

Russell, Mary Doria

Summary: In July 1913, 25-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She's spent her whole life in the copper-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risked their lives for meager salaries and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their backs. The women labor in the houses of the elite, and send their men deep underground each day, dreading...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019

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Neumann, Glenn.

Contents: Issues of: 1886, 1887, 1888 and 1889.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Elk Rapids Historical Society 1996

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.464 NEU
1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 977.464 NEU

LeBeau, Patrick Russell

Summary: Rethinking Michigan Indian History is a teaching tool that honors the Chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi and the twelve federally recognized tribes of Michigan by recognizing their role and place in Michigan history--exploring what most people know (or do not know) about them.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 LEB

Michigan Historical Commission

Contents: Today and yesterday : These times and times gone by / Carl R. Anderson -- Vacationland in the heart of the Great Lakes / Ferris E. Lewis -- Putting a nation on wheels / Joe L. Norris -- Our melting pot of nationalities / Lawrence S. Thompson -- Labor and social welfare / Sidney Glazer -- Better farming for better living / Joseph G. Duncan -- Changes in rural and urban living / Willis F. Dunbar...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1949

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 917.74 THI

Neumann, Glenn.

Contents: Issues of 1870

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Elk Rapids Historical Society 1996

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.46 NEU

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.464 NEU

Decker, William A.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 362.21 NOR

Summary: A history of the Newberry, Michigan State Hospital with William A. Decker, M.D., DLFAPA Luce County Historical Society, June 27, 2009.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.21 HIS
1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 362.21 HIS

Decker, William A.

Summary: Interviews by William A. Decker, M.D. ; Reverend James Brammer, TCSH Chaplain ; Shirley Rogers, TCSH Nursing Department ; Ms. Mini Minervini, Administrator of Village Commons.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 362.21 NOR

Casamer, Douglas M.

Summary: The Michigan 22nd Infantry regiment was instrumental in making the outcome of the Civil War a Union victory. Included is a study of the 1,610 men who fought in this regiment. Fought in and around the following battles; Chickamauga; Lookout Mountain; Chattanooga; Lost Mountain; Kennesaw Mountain; Chattahoochee River; Peach Tree Creek; Jonesboro; Atlanta. Formed at Pontiac, Michigan and mustered...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Casamer Publishing 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Reference, Call number: R GEN 973.7474 CAS

Silliman, Sue Imogene.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1969

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.344 Silliman

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Daughters of the American Revolution of Michigan 2012

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 369.135 HIS

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