Michigan Historical Review articles from March 2003

Michigan Historical Review archives from March 2003

Promoting Cloverland: regional associations, state agencies, and the creation of Michigan's Upper Peninsula Tourist Industry. (2002 Student Essay Prize Winner).
March 22, 2003... If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you. --Motto on the Great Seal of the State of Michigan The upper peninsula of Michigan, rich beyond telling in the possibilities of agriculture, forestry, mining, fruit, cattle raising and...

"A common feeling": regional identity and historical consciousness in the old northwest, 1820-1860.
March 22, 2003... Regional identifies are problematic constructions. They are often as imprecise as they are subjective and as ironic as they are relative. Regions are complex cognitive and social landscapes, and the nature of regionalism has been a topic of...

From socialism to racism: the politics of class and identity in postwar Milwaukee.
March 22, 2003... On April 3, 1956, voters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, went to the polls to choose their mayor in an election that pitted two-term incumbent and Socialist Party member Frank P. Zeidler against Milton J. McGuire, a conservative Democrat who chaired...

Perry Bullard: liberal lawmaker, 1972-1992.
March 22, 2003... I'm not sure that history will pay that much attention to him.... The fact is that many of the laws that he sponsored--Open Meetings Act, Auto Lemon Law, the Freedom of Information Act, many, many others--roll off the tongues of thousands of...

Ambivalence and cigarettes: Egon Erwin Kisch's "at Ford's place in Detroit," with a translation of the text.
March 22, 2003... Restless, curious, and captivating, Egon Erwin Kisch was known during the years between the past century's two world wars as "the raging reporter" (1) for his part in the development of reportage, a form of journalism based on fact, but as...

Jeffrey Abt. A Museum on the Verge: a Socioeconomic History of the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1882-2000.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2001. Pp. 315. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Cloth, $29.95. Sparked by the funding crisis at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) in the 1990s, Jeffrey Abt turns an analysis of that crisis into a...

Philip J. Anderson and Dag Blanck, eds. Swedes in the Twin Cities: Immigrant Life and Minnesota's Urban Frontier.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2001. Pp. 367. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Cloth, $34.95. In 1996 the American Swedish Institute, the Minnesota Historical Society, and the Swedish-American Historical Society brought...

Francis M. Carroll. A Good and Wise Measure: the Search for the Canadian-American Boundary, 1783-1842.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. Pp. 462. Bibliography. Index. Maps. Cloth, $75.00; paper $29.95. The story of the Canadian-American boundary between the Atlantic Ocean and Lake of the Woods is a tangled web of political...

Andrew R. L. Cayton. Ohio: the History of a People.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2002. Pp. 472. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Cloth, $48.75. Andrew Cayton wrote Ohio: The History of a People as the obligatory book marking the state's bicentennial celebration of statehood in...

Gregory Evans Dowd. War under Heaven: Pontiac, the Indian Nations, and the British Empire.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... War under Heaven: Pontiac, the Indian Nations, and the British Empire. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Pp. 360. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Cloth, $32.00. In the 240 years since Native Americans launched a series of...

Deborah Davis Jackson. Our Elders Lived It: American Indian Identity in the City.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2002. Pp. 191. Bibliography. Index. Map. Photographs. Cloth, $38.00; paper, $20.00. Deborah Davis Jackson explores American Indian identity in a mid-sized, industrialized upper Great Lakes city....

Katharine B. Judson, ed. Native American Legends of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Valley.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2000. Pp. 204. Bibliography. Index. Introduction. Cloth, $38.00; paper, $18.00. This collection of 102 American-Indian tales is a reprint of the 1914 edition rifled Myths and Legends of the...

Paul R. Kavieff. The Violent Years: Prohibition and the Detroit Mobs.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Fort Lee, N.J.: Barricade Books, 2001. Pp. 227. Bibliography. Photographs. Cloth, $22.00. The Violent Years: Prohibition and the Detroit Mobs describes in rich and energetic detail the lives and organizational activities of men who ranked...

Anne Meis Knupfer. Reform and Resistance: Gender, Delinquency, and America's First Juvenile Court.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... New York: Routledge, 2001. Pp. 256. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Paper, $22.95. Anne Meis Knupfer focuses on the Cook County Juvenile Court in Chicago to argue that female juvenile delinquency in Chicago during the Progressive Era...

Kenneth E. Lewis. West to far Michigan: Settling the Lower Peninsula, 1815-1860.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2002. Pp. 514. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Maps. Cloth, $64.95. Turning away from the themes of cultural conflict and exchange highlighted in recent American frontier studies,...

Carolyn S. Loeb. Entrepreneurial Vernacular: Developers' Subdivisions in the 1920s.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. 273. Bibliography. Index. Cloth, $45.00. Loeb's book helps us understand the roots of a significant trend in American housing after World War II: the construction of many large-scale,...

Jeffrey D. Marlett, Saving the Heartland: Catholic Missionaries in Rural America, 1920-1960.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2002. Pp. 233. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. Cloth, $40.00. Students of rural Michigan religion and history will find useful material in Jeffrey D. Marlett's book, which explains the agenda...

George Nelson. My First Years in the Fur Trade: the Journals of 1802-1804.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Laura Peers and Theresa Schenck, eds. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2002. Pp. 234. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Cloth, $29.95. My First Years in the Fur Trade is the first in what editors Laura Peers and Theresa...

Chase S Osborn. The Iron Hunter.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Introduction by Robert M. Warner. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2002. Pp. 288. Glossary. Paper, $24.95. Midwestern Progressive Era history is rich with colorful, dynamic, public officials who transformed the region into a more...

Mary Pattillo-McCoy. Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Pp. 276. Bibliography. Index. Cloth, $25.00; paper, $15.00. Lamenting that academics and the general public have preferred to focus on upwardly mobile or deeply impoverished African Americans,...

Gerald J. Prokopowicz. All for the Regiment: the Army of the Ohio, 1861-1862.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. 265. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Maps. Notes. Cloth, $34.95. Within the mass of Civil War literature, the federal Army of the Ohio has received remarkably scant scholarly...

James Schmiechen. Off the Record: the Unpublished Photographs of Bill Simmons, a Pictorial History of Saugatuck in the '40s and '50s.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Saugatuck, Mich.: Saugatuck-Douglas Historical Society, 2001. Pp. 133. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. Paper, $35.00. Small and large collections of photographs that depict the lives of thousands of individuals and hundreds of towns...

Otis Milton Smith and Mary M. Stolberg. Looking beyond Race: the Life of Otis Milton Smith.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2000. Pp. 264. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Cloth, $29.95. Former Michigan Supreme Court Justice and retired General Motors executive Otis M. Smith dictated his memoirs to Mary M. Stolberg in...

Robert P. Swierenga. Dutch Chicago: a History of the Hollanders in the Windy City.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Grand Rapids, Mich.: Wm. B Eerdmans, 2002. Pp. 905. Appendices. Bibliography Index. Maps. Photographs. Cloth, $49.00. In Dutch Chicago, Robert P. Swierenga ably presents the experiences of the Dutch immigrants in Chicago from their earliest...

Lewis Walker and Ben C. Wilson. The Idlewild Community: Black Eden.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2002. Pp. 268. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Cloth, $39.95. The resort in Idlewild, Michigan, that became a mecca for middle-class and professional African Americans was a product of the...

Victoria W. Wolcott. Remaking Respectability: African American Women in Interwar Detroit.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. 360. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $19.95. Victoria W. Wolcott's book, Remaking Respectability: African American Women in Interwar Detroit is a...

Editor's page.
March 22, 2003... This issue begins volume 29--not a good round number or even a multiple of anything, since 29 is a prime--so there is no great anniversary to celebrate. But it never hurts to say thank you. We are grateful to Central Michigan University for...