Babson, Steve.

Summary: For more than 50 years, Detroit attorney Ernie Goodman fought the good fight for social justice, among other things defending sit-down strikers during the 1930s auto strikes, and litigating important labor and civil rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. This scholarly but quite readable biography presents a detailed portrait of Goodman's life, showing how this child of Jewish immigrants...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GOODMAN, ERNIE BAB

Bennitt, John.

Summary: "In 1862 at the age of thirty-two, physician John Bennitt of Centerville, Michigan, joined the 19th Michigan Infantry Regiment as an assistant surgeon and remained in military service until the end of the war. During this time, Bennitt wrote more than two hundred letters home to his wife and daughters. In them he shared his careful and detailed observations of army life, including dramatic...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.775 BEN

Hoffman, Mark

Contents: Volunteer engineers -- The sinews of war -- Camp Owen -- South to Kentucky and Tennessee -- On to Corinth -- With Mitchel to the Tennessee -- Work and warfare along the Tennessee -- Into battle at Perryville -- Mutiny -- The fight at Lavergne -- Filling vacant ranks -- Forward to Murfreesboro -- Back across the Tennessee -- Holding Chattanooga for the Union -- Building the supply net --...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7474 HOF

Mason, Philip P. (Philip Parker)

Summary: History of life in Michigan during prohibition when seventy-five percent of the illegal liquor smuggled into the United States came across the Detroit River from Canada.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1995

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MIO 364.133 MAS

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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1998

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Herek, Raymond J.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1998

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Taylor, Paul

Summary: Overview: Though it was located far away from Southern battlefields, Detroit churned with unrest during the American Civil War. The city's population, including a large German and Irish immigrant community, mostly aligned with anti-war Democrats while the rest of the state stood with the pro-Lincoln Republicans. The virulently anti-Lincoln and anti-Black Detroit Free Press fanned the city's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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Dunnigan, Brian Leigh.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2008

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977.4923 DUN

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2003

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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 355.37 MIC

Steinberg, Ellen FitzSimmons

Contents: Preserving the heritage -- Leavened breads and cakes -- Traditions and innovations -- Dainty dishes -- Of cooking and medicinal foods.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394.12 STE

Reynolds, Terry S.

Summary: In Iron Will: Cleveland-Cliffs and the Mining of Iron Ore, 1847--2006, Terry S. Reynolds and Virginia P. Dawson tell the story of Cleveland-Cliffs, the only surviving independent American iron mining company, now known as Cliffs Natural Resources. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland-Cliffs played a major role in the opening and development of the Lake Superior mining district and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.49 REY

Bak, Richard

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1991

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

Yanik, Anthony J.

Contents: Prologue to the founding of Maxwell-Briscoe -- The formation of the Maxwell-Briscoe Company -- Maxwell-Briscoe's rapid rise in the marketplace -- Maxwell-Briscoe's failed merger attempts -- Maxwell-Briscoe as a division of the United States Motor Company -- The dissolution of the U.S. Motor Company -- Walter Flanders and the new Maxwell organization -- Bankers select Walter P. Chrysler to save...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.7 YAN

Hyde, Charles K.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2005

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

Bryan, Ford R. (Ford Richardson)

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1997

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

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2001

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

Schweitzer, Robert

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1990

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 728.37 SCH

Allen, P. David

Contents: Cast of characters -- Timeline -- Introduction -- Part I. making a federal case, by accident -- Green Bay convergence -- The Feds don't take Wisconsin's hint -- Inner turmoil at Fish and Wildlife -- Grand theft -- Part II. The Feds take the case -- Can't we all just get along? -- Making the case -- Escalation to the breaking point -- Afterword -- Epilogue -- References.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1 ALL

Joachim, George J.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1994

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 386.244 JOA