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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Oomen, Anne-Marie.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.459 OOM
1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4 OOM

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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4 OOM

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

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

Johnson, Heidi.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2001

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2 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI 362.2 Johnson
Call number: MI Local Johnson

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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 362.21 JOH

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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

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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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2003

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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 355.37 MIC

Franck, Michael (Michael S.)

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1996

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

Johnson, Heidi.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2004

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: 362.21 JOH

Lankton, Larry D.

Summary: From the Dust Jacket: In Hollowed Ground, author Larry Lankton tells the story of two copper industries on Lake Superior-native copper mining, which produced about 11 billion pounds of the metal from the 1840s until the late 1960s, and copper sulfide mining, which began in the 1950s and produced another 4.4 billion pounds of copper through the 1990s. In addition to documenting companies and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2010

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1 available in Michigan Room, Call number: MI 977.499 Lankton 2010

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 972.499 LAN

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