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

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

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

Oomen, Anne-Marie.

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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 OOMEN, ANNE-MARIE OOM

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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Word Oomen

Lutes, Della T. (Della Thompson)

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1992

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640.973 LUT

Dutton, Fred W.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1991

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

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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 917.70 DUT

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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

Carney-Coston, Barbara

Summary: In 1886, 11-year-old Mihaela embarks on a journey from Croatia to the Keweenaw Peninsula, also known as Michigan's Copper Country. Mihaela's papa had made the trip two years beforehand in order to work the copper mines so that he could send money back home, but a painful eye disease has left him vulnerable in a new land and in need of the skills of his wife, an expert healer. And so Mihaela,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2017

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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

Barcus, Frank

Summary: Yarns and reminiscences of the greatest storm in inland navigation.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1986

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 977 BAR

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

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

Long, J. C. (John Cuthbert)

Contents: Blazing the trails of tomorrow -- A grass-roots boyhood -- University days -- Detroit-to-New York pioneer tour -- Revolt at Oldsmobile -- Launching his first company -- Out of debt and on their way -- Chalmers-Detroit, and beginnings of Hudson -- Forecasting future trends -- On their own at last -- A millionaire at thirty -- Wednesday in Georgia -- Hudson's growing pains -- With Pershing on the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHAPIN, ROY D. LON

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

Smucker, Anna Egan.

Summary: After her grandfather's death in the fall of 1871, twelve-year-old Jessie bravely helps her mother take care of the lighthouse her family has kept for generations on South Manitou Island in Lake Michigan, hoping that they will be allowed to continue to live and work there.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2005

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SMU

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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Smucker

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

Smith, Otis Milton

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMITH, OTIS MILTON SMI