Michigan Historical Review articles

Recent articles from Michigan Historical Review

Introduction: modern borderlands.
September 22, 2008... Surrounded by four of the Great Lakes, Michigan occupies a distinct space in a transnational region marked by centuries of cultural, economic, environmental, political, and social interaction. To explore this facet of the state's history, the Michigan Historical Review has devoted its Spring...

The permeable border, the great Lakes region, and the Canadian-American relationship.
September 22, 2008... Largely undefended, virtually invisible, and easily traversed, the Canada-United States border has meant different things at different moments in the lives of these two countries and in their relationship to each other, most frequently perhaps serving as a symbol for the intangible...

The persistence of travel and trade: St. Lawrence river valley French engages and the American Fur Company, 1818-1840.
September 22, 2008... L'homme quebecois has little more parish consciousness than frontier consciousness. The true locus of his continuity is more temporal than spatial: it is the family. Relatives--the extended family--who are scattered over the continent and not confined to the Laurentian Valley will welcome the...

Taming the "Savagery" of Michigan's Indians.
September 22, 2008... When immigrants from New England and western New York began streaming into Michigan ha the late 1820s, they voiced great alarm about the perceived barbarism and wildness of the territory's first inhabitants. Although Michigan's Native Peoples had developed complex, sophisticated cultures,...

Navigating the landscape of assimilation: the Anishnabeg, the lumber industry, and the failure of federal Indian policy in Michigan.
September 22, 2008... In his groundbreaking work Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Benedict Anderson notes, "the fiction of the census is that everyone is in it, and that everyone has one--and only one--extremely clear place." (1) There is, perhaps, no better representation...