Michigan Historical Review articles from March 2006

Michigan Historical Review archives from March 2006

Intracultural mapmaking by first nations peoples in the Great Lakes region: a historical review.
March 22, 2006... This article was originally written as part of the first draft of "First Nations Mapmaking in the Great Lakes Region in Intercultural Contexts: A Historical Review," which was published in the fall 2004 edition of the Michigan Historical...

Radical politics and constitutional theory: Senator Jacob M. Howard of Michigan and the problem of reconstruction.
March 22, 2006... Congressional Republicans faced a variety of conflicting pressures during the Reconstruction era. Republicans generally were committed both to ensuring that the "slave power" would not rise from the ashes of its defeat in the Civil War to once...

Dreaming of a decentralized metropolis: city planning in socialist Milwaukee.
March 22, 2006... Our dries are physically obsolete, and unfit for the requirements of what we hope soon will be modern living. Charles Whitnall, 19341 In 1918 the women's editor of one of Milwaukee's largest daily newspapers decided to take a "tour" of...

Planning a transportation system for metropolitan Detroit in the age of the automobile: the triumph of the expressway.
March 22, 2006... Although Detroit had no rapid-transit system in place in the early 1920s, the Motor City seemed poised in 1923 to build the most modern and innovative transportation system in the United States. The Detroit Rapid Transit Commission (RTC), led...

"We just don't want to keep on going to useless meetings": Community Organizing at Detroit's Jefferson Junior High School, 1966-1967.(Susan McCarroll of Community Organization of Parents, Jefferson Parent-Teacher-Community Organization)
March 22, 2006... "We just don't want to keep on going to useless meetings," declared Susan McCarroll, an African American, public-housing resident, and Jefferson Junior High School parent, explaining the November 1966 formation of the Community Organization of...

M. Christine Byron and Thomas R. Wilson. Vintage Views of the Charlevoix-Petoskey Region.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... M. Christine Byron and Thomas R. Wilson. Vintage Views of the Charlevoix-Petoskey Region. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. Pp. 278. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Cloth, $45.00. In the publishing world today, historical...

Philip Caputo. 13 Seconds: A Look Back at the Kent State Shootings.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Philip Caputo. 13 Seconds: A Look Back at the Kent State Shootings. New York: Chamberlain Brothers, 2005. Pp. 198. Appendices. DVD. Cloth, $19.95. Describing tragedies of the 1960s and early 1970s, Hunter S. Thompson wrote, "Altamont was a...

David A. Carson. Grit, Noise, and Revolution: The Birth of Detroit Rock 'n' Roll.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... David A. Carson. Grit, Noise, and Revolution: The Birth of Detroit Rock 'n' Roll. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. Pp. 320. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Paper, $24.00. Few regional rock settings have given rise...

David T. Dana III, ed. A Fashionable Tour through the Great Lakes and Upper Mississippi: The 1852 Journal of Juliette Starr Dana.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... David T. Dana III, ed. A Fashionable Tour through the Great Lakes and Upper Mississippi: The 1852 Journal of Juliette Starr Dana. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2004. Pp. 122. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Paper, $24.95. The...

John Robert Greene. Betty Ford: Candor and Courage in the White House.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... John Robert Greene. Betty Ford: Candor and Courage in the White House. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004. Pp. 166. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Cloth $25.00. One of the most influential recent first ladies, Betty Ford is...

Martin Halpern. Unions, Radicals, and Democratic Presidents: Seeking Social Change in the Twentieth Century.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Martin Halpern. Unions, Radicals, and Democratic Presidents: Seeking Social Change in the Twentieth Century. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2003. Pp. 261. Bibliography. Index. Cloth, $87.95. Evidence of the decline in progressive politics over...

James B. LaGrand. Indian Metropolis: Native Americans in Chicago, 1945-75.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... James B. LaGrand. Indian Metropolis: Native Americans in Chicago, 1945-75. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. Pp. 284. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Cloth, $34.95. In Indian Metropolis, James LaGrand has written two histories in one...

Kit Lane. Lincoln's "Ready-Made" Soldiers: Saugatuck Area Men in the Civil War.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Kit Lane. Lincoln's "Ready-Made" Soldiers: Saugatuck Area Men in the Civil War. Douglas, Mich.: Saugatuck-Douglas Historical Society, 2005. Pp. 221. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. Paper, $29.95. The American Civil War transformed the...

Ann Larabee. The Dynamite Fiend: The Chilling Tale of a Confederate Spy, Con Artist, and Mass Murderer.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Ann Larabee. The Dynamite Fiend: The Chilling Tale of a Confederate Spy, Con Artist, and Mass Murderer. New York: Palgrave Press, 2005. Pp. 234. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $24.95. In 1875 a bomb detonated on a dock at...

Mary Nona McGreal, OP. Journeyman, Preacher, Pastor, Teacher: Samuel Mazzuchelli, American Dominican.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Mary Nona McGreal, OP. Journeyman, Preacher, Pastor, Teacher: Samuel Mazzuchelli, American Dominican. Notre Dame, Ind.: Ave Maria Press, 2005. Pp. 338. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Paper, $16.00. Sister Mary Nona McGreal, OP, has written a...

Graydon M. Meints. Michigan Railroad Lines, 2 vols.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Graydon M. Meints. Michigan Railroad Lines, 2 vols. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2005. Pp. 906. Appendices. Bibliography. Maps. Cloth, $150.00. Graydon Meints has created a remarkable reference work on railroads in...

Yanek Mieczkowski. Gerald Ford and the Challenges of the 1970s.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Yanek Mieczkowski. Gerald Ford and the Challenges of the 1970s. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2005. Pp. 472. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Cloth, $39.95. People liked President Ford, but by most accounts his presidency was...

Gijs Mom. The Electric Vehicle: Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Gijs Mom. The Electric Vehicle: Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Pp. 423. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $54.95. In this era of rising oil prices and...

David Lee Poremba. Detroit: A Motor City History.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... David Lee Poremba. Detroit: A Motor City History. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, 2003. Pp. 159. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Paper, $19.99. As one of the oldest permanent European settlements in North America, Detroit...

Kenneth J. Schoon. Calumet Beginnings: Andent Shorelines and Settlements at the South End of Lake Michigan.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Kenneth J. Schoon. Calumet Beginnings: Andent Shorelines and Settlements at the South End of Lake Michigan. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. Pp. 247. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. Maps. Photographs. Cloth, $24.95. The Calumet...

Megan Taylor Shockley. "We Too Are Americans": African American Women in Detroit and Richmond, 1940-54.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Megan Taylor Shockley. "We Too Are Americans": African American Women in Detroit and Richmond, 1940-54. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003. Pp. 256. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Notes. Cloth, $39.95. Although accounts of the...

Mark Sproule-Jones. Restoration of the Great Lakes: Promises, Practices, Performances.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Mark Sproule-Jones. Restoration of the Great Lakes: Promises, Practices, Performances. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2002. Pp. 149. Illustrations. Index. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $24.95. The word "performances" in the title of...

Derek Vaillant. Sounds of Reform: Progressivism and Music in Chicago, 1873-1935.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Derek Vaillant. Sounds of Reform: Progressivism and Music in Chicago, 1873-1935. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. 291. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95. Derek Vaillant...

Phyllis Vine. One Man's Castle: Clarence Darrow in Defense of the American Dream.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Phyllis Vine. One Man's Castle: Clarence Darrow in Defense of the American Dream. New York: Amistad, 2005. Pp. 349. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Paper, $13.95. Most people associate racial activism with the civil rights...

Keith R. Widder. Michigan Agricultural College: The Evolution of a Land-Grant Philosophy, 1855-1925.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Keith R. Widder. Michigan Agricultural College: The Evolution of a Land-Grant Philosophy, 1855-1925. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2005. Pp. 547. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Cloth, $39.95. Big-Ten behemoth Michigan...

Editor's page.
March 22, 2006... Today we rather expect cities to sprawl--and perhaps it was more or less inevitable that U.S. dries would do so in the age of the automobile. But a century ago the problem that troubled reformers and city officials was congestion and clogged...