Michigan Historical Review articles from March 2008

Michigan Historical Review archives from March 2008

Introduction: emerging Borderlands.
March 22, 2008... Surrounded by four of the Great Lakes, Michigan occupies a distinct space in a transnational region marked by centuries of cultural, economic, environmental, political, and social interaction. To explore this facet of the state's history, the...

Writing Michigan history from a transborder perspective.(Essay)
March 22, 2008... Histories of individual American states constitute a peculiar kind of political history. Pivoting on the fact of statehood, these works invariably combine a geopolitical narrative of how a state came into existence with a heavily social and...

Apples on the border: orchards and the contest for the Great Lakes.(Essay)
March 22, 2008... In the fall of 1791 Elkanah Watson toured western New York, searching for real-estate opportunities. Ten years earlier there had been few white settlements in this region; it was the heart of Iroquois country. But the American Revolution had...

After the conquest: Michilimackinac, a borderland in transition, 1760-1763.
March 22, 2008... On the morning of June 2, 1763, opposing teams of Ojibwe and Sac warriors played a game of baggatiway or lacrosse outside the land gate of Fort Michilimackinac. The Ojibwe used the contest as a ruse to surprise British officers and soldiers who...

Merchant representatives and the French river world, 1763-1803.(Essay)
March 22, 2008... The French empire in North America came to an abrupt end with the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1763. (1) With the "scratch of a pen," as Colin G. Calloway has explained it, the map of North America was drastically altered. (2) New France...

The transformation of the Detroit land market and the formation of the Anglo-American border, 1783-1796.(Detroit, Michigan)
March 22, 2008... In November 1783, British diplomats in Paris agreed to cede the vast territory of the trans-Appalachian west to the newly independent United States of America as part of the treaty that ended the Revolutionary War. For many residents of the...

The Gnadenhutten effect: Moravian converts and the search for safety in the Canadian borderlands.(Essay)
March 22, 2008... In a journal entry composed on April 8, 1782, Moravian missionary David Zeisberger penned a critical observation: "The world is already too narrow." It had been a month since an American militia unit under the command of Lt. Col. David...

The road to ruin? "Civilization" and the origins of a "Michigan Road Band" of Potawatomi.(2007 Student Essay Prize Winner)(Essay)
March 22, 2008... A road can be a very boring thing, until someone wants to build one across your land. Today road building often evokes heated debates over property, commerce, traffic, tradition, and even race and culture. In this regard, little has changed...

Daniel P. Barr, ed.: The Boundaries between Us: Natives and Newcomers along the Frontiers of the Old Northwest Territory, 1750-1850.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Daniel P. Barr, ed. The Boundaries between Us: Natives and Newcomers along the Frontiers of the Old Northwest Territory, 1750-1850. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2006. Pp. 261. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Cloth, $52.00. The...

Kevin L. Borg. Auto Mechanics." Technology and Expertise in Twentieth-Century America.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Kevin L. Borg. Auto Mechanics." Technology and Expertise in Twentieth-Century America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Pp. 249. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $50.00. In this enjoyable book, Kevin L. Borg...

Anna-Lisa Cox. A Stronger Kinship: One Town's Extraordinary Story of Hope and Faith.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Anna-Lisa Cox. A Stronger Kinship: One Town's Extraordinary Story of Hope and Faith. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. Pp. 288. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. Tables. Paper, $19.95. Historians often look for...

David M. P. Freund. Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... David M. P. Freund. Colored Properly: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. 496. Bibliography. Drawings. Index. Maps. Notes. Photographs. Cloth, $35.00. Charging a title...

Alan D. Gaff. Bayonets in the Wilderness: Anthony Wayne's Legion in the Old Northwest.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Alan D. Gaff. Bayonets in the Wilderness." Anthony Wayne's Legion in the Old Northwest. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. Pp. 419. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $39.95. Given the awesome might of the armed...

Sharon A. Roger Hepburn. Crossing the Border." A Free Black Community in Canada.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Sharon A. Roger Hepburn. Crossing the Border." A Free Black Community in Canada. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. Pp. 272. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. Cloth, $40.00. The past few years have seen an outpouring of...

Mark Hoffman. "My Brave Mechanics": The First Michigan Engineers and Their Civil War.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Mark Hoffman. "My Brave Mechanics": The First Michigan Engineers and Their Civil War. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2007. Pp. 470. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Maps. Notes. Tables. Cloth, $44.95. Mark Hoffman's...

Susan Kalter, ed.: Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania, and the First Nations: The Treaties of 1736-62.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Susan Kalter, ed. Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania, and the First Nations: The Treaties of 1736-62. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. Pp. 472. Illustrations. Index. Glossary. Maps. Notes. Cloth, $45.00. Susan Kalter, associate...

Jon Latimer. 1812: War with America.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Jon Latimer. 1812: War with America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. 637. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Maps. Notes. Cloth, $35.00. No one has done for the almost-forgotten War of 1812 what Jon Latimer does in...

Samuel S. Marquis. Introduction by David Lewis. Henry Ford: An Interpretation.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Samuel S. Marquis. Introduction by David Lewis. Henry Ford: An Interpretation. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2007. Pp. 224. Index. Paper, $24.95. The republication of Samuel Marquis's Henry Ford: An Interpretation brings to modern...

Charlie Savage. Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Charlie Savage. Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy. New York: Little, Brown, 2007. Pp. 416. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Cloth, $25.99. In a thorough analysis of the first six-plus years...

Jeremy Schaap. Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Jeremy Schaap. Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. Pp. 272. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $24.00. On May 25, 1935, Ohio State University track phenomenon...

Richard Sisson, Christian Zacher, and Andrew Cayton, eds.: The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Richard Sisson, Christian Zacher, and Andrew Cayton, eds. The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. Pp. 1890. Charts. Index. Maps. Photographs. Source notes and further readings. Tables....

Margaret Connell Szasz. Scottish Highlanders and Native Americans: Indigenous Education in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Margaret Connell Szasz. Scottish Highlanders and Native Americans: Indigenous Education in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. Pp. 304. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $34.95. ...

Jack R. Westbrook. Central Michigan University.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Jack R. Westbrook. Central Michigan University. Mt. Pleasant, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, 2007. Pp. 128. Introduction. Photographs. Paper, $19.99. Jack R. Westbrook's Central Michigan University is an arresting and eye-catching work of...