Michigan Historical Review articles from March 2002

Michigan Historical Review archives from March 2002

Disabilities of marriage: gender and law in antebellum Michigan. (2001 Student Essay Prize Winner).
March 22, 2002... In 1842 Harriet Sawyer petitioned the Michigan Court of Chancery for a divorce on the grounds of her husband Leander's extreme cruelty. She had left Leander once before because of his abuse; then, a beating had left noticeable bruises on her...

"Behold me a sojourner in the wilderness": early encounters with the Georgian Bay. (1).
March 22, 2002... Strangely, perhaps, we often forget to include the Georgian Bay when we think of the Great Lakes. (2) But the Georgian Bay, which was the first of the lakes to be encountered by Europeans, has played an integral part in the history of the...

"An economic `Frankenstein'": UAW workers' responses to automation at the Ford Brook Park plant in the 1950s.(United Automobile Workers)
March 22, 2002... In 1953 Alfred Granakis, president of UAW Local 1250, wrote to UAW president Walter Reuther about "wrestling with myself for weeks on end" and being unable "to come to any solution" on some thorny shop-floor problems at a new Ford plant in...

A war council for the drawing room: Arent Schuyler de Peyster's "speech to the Western Indians".
March 22, 2002... In 1813, after he retired to his wife's hometown of Dumfries, Scotland, the American-born Colonel Arent Schuyler de Peyster, formerly of the Eighth or King's Regiment of Foot, published a substantial quarto of occasional verses entitled...

Who owns Sault Ste. Marie?
March 22, 2002... On 31 October 1800 the once-prominent fur trader Jean Baptiste Cadotte, almost seventy-seven years old, lay dying at his residence in Sault Ste. Marie. At his side were his thirteen-year-old grandson, Michel Cadotte, Jr., and probably...

Putting the spotlight on headlight. (Bibliography).
March 22, 2002... The headlight of a locomotive pierces the darkness and brilliantly illuminates all objects in its path. As an engine moves down the tracks on its nighttime journey, its incandescent beacon brightens the features of railside communities and...

Arab Detroit: From Margin to Mainstream.(editors: Nabeel Abraham and Andrew Shryock)
March 22, 2002... Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2000. Pp. 629. Index. Photos. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $24.95. Each semester I take students on a field trip from West Michigan, heavily Dutch, Protestant, and middle class, to Dearborn's Southend,...

Tenderness and Turmoil: Letters to a German Mother, 1914-1920.(Minne Allen and Edward Allen)
March 22, 2002... Edited and translated by Julius W. Allen. Santa Ana, Calif.: Seven Locks Press, 1998. Pp. 283. Appendix. Notes. Preface. Paper, $14.95. At some level, immigration always involves alienation from the familiar and immersion into a foreign...

Jody's Michigan Adventures.(Leigh Arrathoon and John Davio)
March 22, 2002... Rochester, Mich.: Paint Creek Press, 1998. Pp. 336. Illustrations. Paper, $36.50 (seven books with slipcase). The Jody's Michigan Adventures series, written by Leigh Arrathoon and John Davio, chronicles the Michigan vacations of the Murphy...

Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of Hate.(Neil Baldwin)
March 22, 2002... New York: Public Affairs Press, 2001. Pp. 432. Bibliography. Index. Cloth, $27.50. In September 1916, four years before the Dearborn Independent's anti-Semitic onslaught, Ernest G. Liebold, Henry Ford's "watchdog," informed Rabbi Leo...

Ten Years with Custer. A Seventh Cavalryman's Memoirs.(Sandy Barnard)
March 22, 2002... Terre Haute, Ind.: AST Press, 2001. Pp. 343. Appendix. Illustrations. Index. Maps. Paper, $19.95. General George Armstrong ("Autie") Custer (1839-1876) is an American icon. It is said that, among figures in American history, the literature...

A Milwaukee Woman's Life on the Left: The Autobiography of Meta Berger.
March 22, 2002... Edited by Kimberly Swanson. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 2001. Pp. 189. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Paper, $15.95. In this document, carefully edited by Kimberly Swanson, we see Socialism not through the eyes of...

The Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave.
March 22, 2002... Edited by Charles J. Heglar. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. Pp. 257. Appendix. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Introduction. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $16.95. Slave narratives are useful sources for historians, both in their...

Indian Mounds of Wisconsin.(Robert A. Birmingham and Leslie E. Eisenberg)
March 22, 2002... Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000. Pp. 245. Bibliography. Index. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $18.95. Robert A. Birmingham and Leslie E. Eisenberg have done a remarkable job in answering "the public's basic questions, while offering...

Before Motown: A History of Jazz in Detroit, 1920-1960.(Lars Bjorn, with Jim Gallert)
March 22, 2002... Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001. Pp. 239. Discography. Illustrations. Index. Maps. Photographs. Cloth, $54.50; paper, $24.95. A collaborative effort between sociology professor Lars Bjorn and disk jockey Jim Gallert, Before...

Our Towns: Remembering Community in Indiana.(John Bodnar)
March 22, 2002... Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 2001. Pp. 218. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Cloth, $29.9.5. Our Towns: Remembering Community in Indiana uses thirty-one oral histories collected by the Oral History Research Center at Indiana...

Uppermost Canada: The Western District and the Detroit Frontier, 1800-1850.(R. Alan Douglas)
March 22, 2002... Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2001. Pp. 304. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Cloth, $39.95. "Many Canadians have... come to" believe "that most Americans are ineffably ignorant of Canada and Canadians," states R. Alan Douglas...

Frontier Metropolis: Picturing Early Detroit, 1701-1838.(Brian Leigh Dunnigan)
March 22, 2002... Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2001. Pp. 247. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Maps. Notes. Cloth, $125.00. It is hard to imagine anyone who loves books describing this beautiful volume as anything less than a...

Rosie the Rubber Worker: Women Workers in Akrons Rubber Factories during World War II.(Kathleen L. Endres)
March 22, 2002... Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2000. Pp. 176. Bibliography. Index. Interviews. Photographs. Cloth, $45.00. Endres's well-written book draws on interviews with thirty-four women rubber workers, data and photographs from local...

History of the Finns in Michigan.(Armas K. Holmio)
March 22, 2002... Translated by Ellen Ryynanen. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2001. Pp. 639. Bibliography. Index. Tables. Cloth, $44.95; paper, $24.95. Armas Holmio's book focuses primarily on Michigan, but it also provides important Finnish links...

Sixties Sandstorm: The Fight over Establishment of a Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, 1961-1970.(Brian C. Kalt)
March 22, 2002... East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2001. Pp. 151. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. Paper, $17.95. When Senator Philip Hart's colleagues scheduled a field hearing for his 1961 Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore bill,...

Planning a Wilderness: Regenerating the Great Lakes Cutover Region.(James Kates)
March 22, 2002... Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. Pp. 208. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. Cloth, $29.95. In a remarkably concise manner, James Kates tracks the regeneration--and reimagination--of the Great Lakes cutover region. During...

Race, Jobs, and the War: The FEPC in the Midwest, 1941-46.(Andrew E. Kersten)
March 22, 2002... Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. Pp. 210. Bibliography. Index. Cloth, $35.00. Andrew E. Kersten's Race, Jobs, and the War: The FEPC in the Midwest, 1941-46 examines the Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC) and its impact...

Remaking Chicago: The Political Origins of Urban Industrial Change.(Joel Rast)
March 22, 2002... DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1999. Pp. 201. Bibliography. Index. References. Cloth, $36.00. Joel Past makes a compelling argument that urban redevelopment in post-World War II Chicago was "shaped, in significant part, through...

The Reuther Brothers: Walter, Roy, and Victor.(Mike Smith and Pam Smith)
March 22, 2002... Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2001. Pp. 96. Glossary. Photographs. Cloth, $24.95; paper, $14.95. Walter, Roy, and Victor Reuther were leaders in organizing autoworkers and forming the UAW. This book, which is part of the Detroit...

City of Big Shoulders: A History of Chicago.(Robert G. Spinney)
March 22, 2002... DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2000. Pp. 296. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Tables. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $18.50. Robert G. Spinney has taken on the daunting task of writing a complete history of Chicago. His City of Big...

Island Farm.(Arthur Versluis)
March 22, 2002... East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2000. Pp. 163. Paper, $19.95. Part reminiscence, part philosophical rumination, Arthur Versluis's Island Farm focuses on the destruction of the countryside near Grand Rapids, Michigan....

At Custer's Side: The Civil War Writings of James Harvey Kidd.(Eric J. Wittenberg)
March 22, 2002... Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2001. Pp. 140. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Paper, $25.00. At Custer's Side is among the newest additions to the ever-expanding literature on George Armstrong Custer. This volume is a...

Editor's page.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
March 22, 2002... After a brief interruption by our special Detroit issue in the spring of 2001, we have resumed the practice of beginning each spring issue with the winner of the previous year's student essay contest. This year's winning entry, chosen by a...