Michigan Historical Review articles from March 2007

Michigan Historical Review archives from March 2007

A legacy of limitation: Thomas M. Cooley, public purpose, and the general welfare.(2006 Student Essay Prize Winner)
March 22, 2007... In 1898 the Missouri Supreme Court ruled that publicly supported need-based college scholarships violated the state and federal constitutions. The court's unanimous opinion found that the scholarship program constituted "paternalism... a plant...

The John Askin family library: a fur-trading family's books.
March 22, 2007... John Askin, [1739]-1815, was a well-known eighteenth-century fur trader in Michigan and the Great Lakes region. He and his family possessed a library, the contents of which have not yet been fully studied. Works in the Askin library reveal the...

"A whole community working together": Pearl Kendrick, Grace Eldering, and the Grand Rapids pertussis trials, 1932-1939.
March 22, 2007... The Michigan State Medical Society reported in 1930 that "whooping cough is a very fatal disease for young children and unfortunately it is difficult to make parents understand that they must protect their children.... There is little that can...

Morality vs. legality: Michigan's Burt Lake Indians and the burning of Indianville.
March 22, 2007... By 1900, Native Americans had lived for nearly three centuries on and around a small point of land jutting into northern Michigan's Butt Lake. A small village on the peninsula known as "Chaboigan" or "Indianville" was home to many of them....

Michigan maps in the Detroit Evening News, 1873-1900.
March 22, 2007... In the late 1970s I worked on the Michigan volume of the Checklist of Printed Maps of the Middle West to 1900. The cartographic items included in that compilation were those issued as separate sheets and atlases or as illustrations in serials...

Index to the annual reports of the Michigan Department of Labor, 1884-1920.
March 22, 2007... For many years I have consulted the old annum reports of Michigan's Department of Labor and been greatly impressed with their contents. These little-known publications contain a wealth of information about workers and those who hired them in...

Assessing the value of two tax-related Michigan records.
March 22, 2007... On the shelves of most major libraries in Michigan sit two sets of state-government publications that are seldom (if ever) used by historians. This is unfortunate, as these volumes have something to contribute to practitioners of our craft. ...

Jeff Alexander. The Muskegon: The Majesty and Tragedy of Michigan's Rarest River.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Jeff Alexander. The Muskegon: The Majesty and Tragedy of Michigan's Rarest River. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2006. Pp. 214. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Map. Photo insert. Timeline. Cloth, $24.95. Rivers shape...

Dimitry Anastakis. Auto Pact: Creating a Borderless North American Auto Industry, 1960-1971.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Dimitry Anastakis. Auto Pact: Creating a Borderless North American Auto Industry, 1960-1971. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. Pp. 318. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Tables. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $29.95. Although many...

David R. M. Beck. The Struggle for Self-Determination: History of the Menominee Indians since 1854.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... David R. M. Beck. The Struggle for Self-Determination: History of the Menominee Indians since 1854. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. Pp. 290. Bibliography. Figure. Illustrations. Index. Maps. Photographs. Tables. Cloth, $49.95. ...

Walter R. Borneman. The French & Indian War: Deciding the Fate of North America.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Walter R. Borneman. The French & Indian War: Deciding the Fate of North America. New York: HarperCollins, 2006. Pp. 384. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Maps. Notes. Cloth, $27.95. The Seven Years' War, the pivotal eighteenth-century...

William B. Botti and Michael D. Moore. Michigan's State Forests: A Century of Stewardship.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... William B. Botti and Michael D. Moore. Michigan's State Forests: A Century of Stewardship. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2006. Pp. 256. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Paper, $29.95. This history of Michigan's...

E. N. Brandt. Chairman of the Board: A Biography of Carl A. Gerstacker.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... E. N. Brandt. Chairman of the Board: A Biography of Carl A. Gerstacker. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2003. Pp. 238. Appendix. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $39.95. I first encountered the name Carl...

John J. Bukowczyk, Nora Faires, David R. Smith, and Randy William Widdis. Permeable Border: The Great Lakes Basin as Transnational Region, 1650-1990.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... John J. Bukowczyk, Nora Faires, David R. Smith, and Randy William Widdis. Permeable Borden The Great Lakes Basin as Transnational Region, 1650-1990. Pittsburgh and Calgary: University of Pittsburgh Press and University of Calgary Press, 2005....

Alfred A. Cave. Prophets of the Great Spirit: Native American Revitalization Movements in Eastern North America.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Alfred A. Cave. Prophets of the Great Spirit: Native American Revitalization Movements in Eastern North America. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. Pp. 328. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Cloth, $27.95. In the 1760s the report of a...

Dave Dempsey. William G. Milliken: Michigan's Passionate Moderate.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Dave Dempsey. William G. Milliken: Michigan's Passionate Moderate. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006. Pp. 291. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. Cloth, $29.95. It was in 1974 when I first came to Michigan and saw William...

Davison M. Douglas. Jim Crow Moves North: The Battle over Northern School Segregation, 1865-1954.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Davison M. Douglas. Jim Crow Moves North: The Battle over Northern School Segregation, 1865-1954. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 334. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Paper, $24.99. Davison M. Douglas's Jim Crow...

Nora Faires and Nancy Hanflik. Jewish Life in the Industrial Promised Land, 1855-2005.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Nora Faires and Nancy Hanflik. Jewish Life in the Industrial Promised Land, 1855-2005. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2005. Pp. 240. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. Cloth, $29.95. Not so long ago, local Jewish...

Margaret Garb. City of American Dreams: A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago, 1871-1919.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Margaret Garb. City of American Dreams: A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago, 1871-1919. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. 256. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Maps. Notes. Cloth, $40.00. From the...

William W. Giffin. African Americans and the Color Line in Ohio, 1915-1930.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... William W. Giffin. African Americans and the Color Line in Ohio, 1915-1930. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2006. Pp. 312. Bibliography. Index. Maps. Photographs. Tables. Cloth, $49.95; CD, $9.95. In this work William Giffin...

Jeffrey D. Kleiman. Strike! How the Furniture Workers Strike of 1911 Changed Grand Rapids.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Jeffrey D. Kleiman. Strike! How the Furniture Workers Strike of 1911 Changed Grand Rapids. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Edwards Brothers, 2006. Pp. 165. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Maps. Notes. Paper, $14.95. The causes of the 1911 Grand...

Anne Meis Knupfer. The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women's Activism.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Anne Meis Knupfer. The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women's Activism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. Pp. 256. Bibliography. Drawings. Illustrations. Index. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $20.00. Knupfer has written an innovative work...

Kevin M. Kruse and Thomas J. Sugrue, eds. The New Suburban History.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Kevin M. Kruse and Thomas J. Sugrue, eds. The New Suburban History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. 264. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Paper, $24.00. The New Suburban History is a collection of ten essays on the...

Georg Leidenberger. Chicago's Progressive Alliance: Labor and the Bid for Public Streetcars.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Georg Leidenberger. Chicago's Progressive Alliance: Labor and the Bid for Public Streetcars. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2006. Pp. 202. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $35.00. In Chicago's Progressive...

Thomas J. Noer. Soapy: A Biography of G. Mennen Williams.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Thomas J. Noer. Soapy: A Biography of G. Mennen Williams. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. Pp. 419. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $35.00. G. Mermen "Soapy" Williams was the Democratic governor of Michigan...

Janet Sjaarda Sheeres. Son of Secession: Douwe J. Vander Werp.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Janet Sjaarda Sheeres. Son of Secession: Douwe J. Vander Werp. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2006. Pp. 231. Appendix. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Paper, $25.00. The Reverend Douwe J. Vander Werp (1811-1876) was one of the people...

Steven Watts. The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Steven Watts. The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. Pp. 614. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $30.00. There is no dearth of either informed historical scholarship or...

David B. Wolcott. Cops and Kids: Policing Juvenile Delinquency in Urban America, 1890-1940.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... David B. Wolcott. Cops and Kids: Policing Juvenile Delinquency in Urban America, 1890-1940. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2005. Pp. 264. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $44.95; CD, $9.95. There would seem to be...