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Kearns, Josie

Summary: From the Publisher's Website: As one sixty-year-old, thirty-and-out auto worker said, "My people came from Scotland, and they worked in the mines and we thought black lung was the worst. We came over here for a better life and work in the factories and now [GM] closes them down the same way." This is just one of the quotes Josie Kearns shares in her stories of thirty laid-off auto workers and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1990

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 331.1378 KEA

Dunnigan, Brian Leigh.

Summary: "Detroit's origins as a French outpost make it older than many other cities of eastern North America, despite its inland location. A vivid iconographic record survives for early Detroit, created by those who studied the city for military or commercial purposes. These pictures and maps are tantalizing windows into the past of this colonial metropolis of the Great Lakes during its French,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2001

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977.434 DUN

Blum, Peter H.

Summary: "Brewed in Detroit describes the history of the brewing industry in the Detroit metropolitan area (including Ann Arbor, Mt. Clemens, Pontiac, Windsor, Wyandotte, and Ypsilanti) from its beginning in the 1830s to the present revival by microbrewers and brewpubs." "A historian and trained veteran of the brewing industry, Peter H. Blum divides Detroit brewing history into seven distinct phases:...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.25 Blum

Shine, Neal.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.34 SHI

Chardavoyne, David G.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.66 CHA

Thomas, June Manning.

Summary: A history of how racial disunity and industrial decline handicapped post-World War II urban planning initiatives in Detroit.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2013

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

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

Elster, Jean Alicia

Summary: In The Colored Car, Jean Alicia Elster, author of the award-winning Who's Jim Hines?, follows another member of the Ford family coming of age in Depression-era Detroit. In the hot summer of 1937, twelve-year-old Patsy takes care of her three younger sisters and helps her mother put up fresh fruits and vegetables in the family's summer kitchen, adjacent to the wood yard that her father, Douglas...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELS

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

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

Johnson, Heidi.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2001

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 362.21 JOH

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Local Johnson

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: MIC 362.21 JOH

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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 362.21 JOH

Dana, Juliette Starr

Contents: "Worth a Pilgrimage": July 15-July 20, New York State -- "The Mad Tumult": July 21-July 23, Niagara -- "Lost in the Distance": July 23-July 28, Lakes Erie and Huron, Detroit -- "A Fatiguing Scramble": July 28-July 31, Mackinac -- "Wild Looking Places": August 1-August 3, Sault Ste. Marie -- "Boundary of Civilization": August 4-August 15, Lake Superior -- "Very Rough": August 16-August 22, Lake...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.704 DAN

Johnson, Heidi.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2004

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Oversize, Call number: 362.21 JOH

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 362.21 JOH

Hobart, Henry

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bureau of History, Dept. of State 1991

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.499 HOB

Roberts, David

Contents: Riverside -- The Ford Motor Company of Canada -- Mr. Ford's Canadian Model T -- Victory bonds -- Lockout -- Motoropolis -- McGregor's legacy.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCGREGOR, GORDON M Roberts

Anderson, William M. (William Martin)

Summary: Offering a comprehensive history on Detroit Tigers baseball, this fourth edition covers the history of major league baseball in Detroit from its beginnings in 1881 through the 2007 season. With over 500 photographs, it presents the highlights and lowlights of each season and gives a context for appreciating the Detroit careers of the players.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2008

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 796.357 AND

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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

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

Marquis, Samuel S.

Contents: Introduction to new edition / David L. Lewis -- Introduction to Henry Ford: an interpretation -- The Ford halo -- The art of self-advertising -- A dream that came true -- The Ford fortune -- Some elements of success -- Mental traits and characteristics -- "Just kids" -- Behind a Chinese wall -- Henry Ford and the church -- Henry Ford, Dives, Lazarus and others -- The Ford charities -- The Ford...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FORD,HENRY MAR

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

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

Summary: "In Asian Americans in Michigan: Voices from the Midwest, editors Sook Wilkinson and Victor Jew have assembled forty-one diverse contributors to give an intimate glimpse into Michigan's Asian American communities. Contributors create a fuller picture of these often overlooked groups, including the historical and demographic origins of Michigan's Asian American communities, experiences in memory...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.895 ASI

Sherman, Elizabeth B.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.457 SHE

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