Michigan Historical Review articles from March 1999

Michigan Historical Review archives from March 1999

Mixed-race identity in a nineteenth-century family: the Schoolcrafts of Sault Ste. Marie, 1824-27. (1998 Student Essay Prize Winner).
March 22, 1999... In the autumn of 1824 the Schoolcraft family set out from Sault Ste. Marie, at the mouth of Lake Superior in northern Michigan Territory, to visit New York City. For Jane, who had seldom left the remote village where she was born, this was her...

Women and lay activism: aspects of acculturation in the German Lutheran Churches of Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1870 - 1917.
March 22, 1999... On January 18,1914 the German Erste Evangelisch-Lutherische Zion Kirche (First Evangelical-Lutheran Zion Church) of Ann Arbor held a celebration. The women's society of the church marked twenty-five years of existence with a church service,...

From reading Shakespeare to reforming burlesque: the Minneapolis Woman's Club and the Women's Welfare League, 1907-1920.
March 22, 1999... In 1915 William Koenig, manager of Minneapolis's Gayety theater, received a letter describing a burlesque show soon to appear on his stage. "It is a very beautiful act and one that I am sure will cause considerable comment," wrote I. H. Herk,...

Jobs and justice: Detroit, fair employment, and federal activism during the Second World War.
March 22, 1999... In the history of the American home front during the Second World War, Detroit holds a special place, as the Motor City was at the heart of major wartime transformations. The conversion to war production resuscitated the city's industries, and...

More than a union: the teaching assistants association and its 1970 strike against the University of Wisconsin.
March 22, 1999... Meeting at Port Huron, Michigan in 1962, the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) issued a manifesto outlining the worldview of a new generation of young radicals. The Port Huron Statement, which articulated the basic principles of the New...

The great lakes in Philadelphia: archival report.
March 22, 1999... American Philosophical Society 105 South Fifth Street Philadelphia, PA 19106-3386 The American Philosophical Society (APS) traces its roots to 1743, when the Quaker botanist John Bartram suggested that the American colonies might benefit...

The new deal. (Bibliography).(Brief Article)(Bibliography)
March 22, 1999... The New Deal, following the onset of the disastrous Great Depression, represented perhaps the most significant expansion of the federal government's role and responsibility in the twentieth century. It established a number of assumptions that...

All-American Anarchist: Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 1999... Carlotta R. Anderson. All-American Anarchist: Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998. Pp. 328. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Cloth, $34.95. The author of this biography of Joseph A....

Scandinavian Immigrants and Education in North America. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 1999... Philip J. Anderson, Dag Blanck, and Peter Kivisto, eds. Scandinavian Immigrants and Education in North America. Chicago: Swedish-American Historical Society, 1995. Pp. 224. Illustrations. Cloth, $24.95; paper, $19.95. This book is a...

BF Goodrich: Tradition and Transformation, 1870-1995. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 1999... Mansel G. Blackford and K. Austin Kerr. BF Goodrich: Tradition and Transformation, 1870-1995. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 1996. Illustrations. Appendixes. Index. Pp. 507. Cloth, $35.00. This is a meticulously researched...

Organized Labor and American Politics, 1894-1994: The Labor-Liberal Alliance. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 1999... Kevin Boyle, ed. Organized Labor and American Politics, 1894-1994: The Labor-Liberal Alliance. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. Pp. 274. Index. Paper, $23.95. Kevin Boyle is to be commended for introducing and structuring...

Big Bill Thompson, Chicago, and the Politics of Image. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 1999... Douglas Bukowski. Big Bill Thompson, Chicago, and the Politics of Image. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. Pp. 280. Illustrations. Index. Cloth, $49.95; paper $21.95. Focusing on one of Chicago's most controversial and flamboyant...

Main Street Blues: The Decline of Small-Town America. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 1999... Richard O. Davies. Main Street Blues: The Decline of Small-Town America. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998. Pp. 234. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $20.00. Main Street Blues is a history of Camden, Ohio,...

Frontier Illinois. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 1999... James E. Davis. Frontier Illinois. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. Pp. 542. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Cloth, $35.00. Frontier Illinois by James E. Davis is the fourth book in Indiana University Press's new History of...

The Fifties Spiritual Marketplace: American Religion in a Decade of Conflict. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 1999... Robert S. Ellwood. The Fifties Spiritual Marketplace: American Religion in a Decade of Conflict. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997. Pp. 271. Index. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $18.95. The 1950s serve in current polemics as a base...

Immigrants and Ethnics in Polish Chicago, 1976-1990. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 1999... Mary Patrice Erdmans. Immigrants and Ethnics in Polish Chicago, 1976-1990. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. Pp. 267. Tables. Index. Bibliography. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $19.95. Mary Patrice Erdmans, an...

New Faces of the Fur Trade: Selected Papers of the Seventh North American Fur Trade Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1995. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 1999... Jo-Anne Fiske, Susan Sleeper-Smith, and William Wickem, eds. New Faces of the Fur Trade: Selected Papers of the Seventh North American Fur Trade Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1995. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1998. Pp....

In Face of the Facts: Moral Inquiry in American Scholarship. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 1999... Richard Wightman Fox and Robert B. Westbrook, eds. In Face of the Facts: Moral Inquiry in American Scholarship. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. 300. Index. Cloth, $49.95. This volume of essays grew from a conference...

The Detroit Tigers: Club & Community, 1945-1995. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 1999... Patrick Harrigan. The Detroit Tigers: Club & Community, 1945-1995. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. Pp. 415. Illustrations. Appendixes. Index. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $24.95. Patrick Harrigan, a history professor at the University...

These Men Have Seen Hard Service: The First Michigan Sharpshooters in the Civil War. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 1999... Raymond J. Herek. These Men Have Seen Hard Service: The First Michigan Sharpshooters in the Civil War. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998. Pp. 584. Illustrations. Appendixes. Index. Cloth, $39.95. Raymond J. Herek's fine study of...

Laboring for Freedom: A New Look at the History of Labor in America. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 1999... Daniel Jacoby. Laboring for Freedom: A New Look at the History of Labor in America. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1998. Pp. 224. Bibliography, Index. Cloth, $61.95; paper, $22.95. Daniel Jacoby has chosen labor as the raw material for an...

Painting the Town: A History of Art in Saugatuck and Douglas. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 1999... Kit Lane and Mary Hart. Painting the Town: A History of Art in Saugatuck and Douglas. Douglas, MI: The Saugatuck-Douglas Historical Society, 1997. Pp. 61. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Paper, $15.00. Today the cities of Saugatuck and...

Daily Life in the United States, 1960-1990: Decades of Discord. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 1999... Myron A. Marty. Daily Life in the United States, 1960-1990: Decades of Discord. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Co., 1997. Pp. 371. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Cloth, $45.00. The title Daily Life in the United States, 1960-1990:...

Indians in the United States and Canada: A Comparative History. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 1999... Roger L. Nichols. Indians in the United States and Canada: A Comparative History. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. Pp. 383. Illustrations. Index. Bibliography. Cloth, $60.00. Roger Nichols's Indians in the United States and...

David Zeisberger: A Life Among the Indians. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 1999... Earl P. Olmstead. David Zeisberger: A Life Among the Indians. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1997. Pp. 439. Illustrations. Bibliography. Appendixes. Index. Cloth, $39.00. David Zeisberger was a Moravian missionary who labored among...

Party Spirit in a Frontier Republic: Democratic Politics in Ohio, 1793-1821. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 1999... Donald J. Ratcliffe. Party Spirit in a Frontier Republic: Democratic Politics in Ohio, 1793-1821. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. Pp. 334. Index. Bibliography. Maps. Cloth, $52.50; paper, $22.95. In Party Spirit in a Frontier...

Bridging the River of Hatred: The Pioneering Efforts of Detroit Police Commissioner George Edwards. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 1999... Mary M. Stolberg. Bridging the River of Hatred: The Pioneering Efforts of Detroit Police Commissioner George Edwards. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998. Pp. 347. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Cloth, $34.95. Mary Stolberg's...

The Union Makes Us Strong: Radical Unionism on the San Francisco Waterfront. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 1999... David Wellman. The Union Makes Us Strong: Radical Unionism on the San Francisco Waterfront. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. 364. Illustrations. Indexes. Cloth, $64.95. This book mounts a strong argument against a...

Taking Heaven By Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 1999... John H. Wigger. Taking Heaven By Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. 269. Illustrations. Appendix. Index. Cloth, $55.00. Nathan Hatch's The Democratization of...

The Wisconsin Frontier. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 1999... Mark Wyman. The Wisconsin Frontier. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. Pp. 360. Illustrations. Index. Cloth, $29.95. Despite the assault of the new western historians, the frontier refuses to die. Most recently, Indiana University...

Book notes.
March 22, 1999... Allen, Minnie and Edward Allen. Translated by Julius W. Allen. Tenderness & Turmoil: Letters to a German Mother, 1914-1920. Santa Ana, CA: Seven Locks Press, 1998. Pp. 283. Paper, $14.95. An immigrant bride, Minnie Allen, wrote these...

Editor's Page.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
March 22, 1999... Jeremy Mumford's prizewinning essay, which opens this issue, explores themes of cultural identity and interchange between Native Americans and European Americans through the poignant story of one couple's promising yet troubled marriage. These...