Michigan Historical Review articles from September 1999

Michigan Historical Review archives from September 1999

Building a better prison: the first three decades of the Detroit House of Correction.
September 22, 1999... After a visit in the mid- 1860s a pair of experts gave their studied appraisal that "the Detroit house of correction holds preeminence among the prisons of its class." (1) From time to time many others expressed similar views about this unique...

Waiting for water: service discrimination and Polish neighborhoods in Milwaukee, 1870-1910.
September 22, 1999... Water supply is a necessary component of modern urban life. Nineteenth-century American cities discovered this need and took steps to meet it in a variety of fashions. Several east-coast cities had some sort of supply available by 1830; by the...

On the defensive: Walter Reuther's testimony before the McClellan labor rackets committee.
September 22, 1999... From January 1957 to March 1960, the United States Senate's Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field, popularly known as the McClellan Committee, pursued the most extensive investigation of labor-management...

"Our children are in danger of becoming little Indians": Protestant missionary children and Dakotas, 1835-1862.
September 22, 1999... In 1841 Mary Riggs, an evangelical Protestant missionary to the Dakotas of Minnesota, wrote to her parents that "our children are in danger of becoming little Indians in their tastes, feelings, and habits." (1) Constant contact with Dakota...

Following the north star: Canada as a haven for nineteenth-century American blacks.
September 22, 1999... Colonel Samuel Ragland, an Alabama planter, received an unusual visitor one day in the early 1850s. The caller was James Rapier, a relatively prosperous free black man, and the visit concerned Milton, one of Ragland's slaves. During a recent...

United States civil war. (Bibliography).(Brief Article)(Bibliography)
September 22, 1999... The American Civil War stands as the great dividing point in United States history. Few events rival its historical significance or ongoing interest among both scholars and the general public. For our readers who would like a greater...

Home and Away: The Rise and Fall of Professional Football on the Banks of the Ohio, 1919-1934. (Book Reviews).(Review)
September 22, 1999... Carl M. Becker. Home and Away: The Rise and Fall of Professional Football on the Banks of the Ohio, 1919-1934. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1998. Pp. 367. Illustrations. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. Cloth, $36.95; paper $19.95. ...

Yours in Sisterhood: Ms. Magazine and the Promise of Popular Feminism. (Book Reviews).(Review)
September 22, 1999... Amy Erdman Farrell, Yours in Sisterhood: Ms. Magazine and the Promise of Popular Feminism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Pp. 232. Index. Bibliography. Illustrations. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $16.95. Yours in...

Interlochen: A Home for the Arts. (Book Reviews).(Review)
September 22, 1999... Dean Boal. Interlochen: A Home for the Arts. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998. Pp. 219. Photographs. Index. Cloth, $29.95. Dean Boal, president of Interlochen from 1989 to 1995, has written a comprehensive account of the life...

Making Them Like Us: Peace Corps Volunteers in the 1960s. (Book Reviews).(Review)
September 22, 1999... Fritz Fischer. Making Them Like Us: Peace Corps Volunteers in the 1960s. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998. Pp. 237. Index. Illustrations. Cloth, $27.95. During the 1960s the Peace Corps seemed to be one of the few...

Life with Father: Parenthood and Masculinity in the Nineteenth-Century American North. (Book Reviews).(Review)
September 22, 1999... Stephen M. Frank. Life with Father: Parenthood and Masculinity in the Nineteenth-Century American North. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Pp. 240. Index. Cloth, $34.95. Recently on the Internet I came across a young man...

A Face in the Rock: The Tale of a Grand Island Chippewa. (Book Reviews).(Review)
September 22, 1999... Loren R. Graham. A Face in the Rock: The Tale of a Grand Island Chippewa. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Pp. 160. Index. Illustrations. Paper, $12.95. Originally published in 1995 and now issued in paper, A Face in the...

Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673-1800. (Book Reviews).(Review)
September 22, 1999... Eric Hinderaker. Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673-1800. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. 299. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Cloth, $49.95. Eric Hinderaker has given the historical...

Copper for America: The United States Copper Industry from Colonial Times to the 1990s. (Book Reviews).(Review)
September 22, 1999... Charles K. Hyde. Copper for America: The United States Copper Industry from Colonial Times to the 1990s. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998. Pp. 253. Index. Maps. Charts. Cloth, $40.00. Hyde's latest work sets out to construct a...

The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement. (Book Reviews).(Review)
September 22, 1999... Julie Roy Jeffrey. The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Pp. 310. Index. Bibliography. Illustrations. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $18.95. ...

Nixon's Vietnam War. (Book Reviews).(Review)
September 22, 1999... Jeffrey Kimball. Nixon's Vietnam War. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. Pp. 496. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Cloth, $39.95. With this work on the conflict in Southeast Asia, Jeffrey Kimball moves to the forefront of specialists...

Heroes, Rogues, and Just Plain Folks. (Book Reviews).(Review)
September 22, 1999... Kit Lane, ed., Heroes, Rogues, and Just Plain Folks. A History of the Saugatuck Area. Douglas, MI: The Saugatuck-Douglas Historical Society, 1998. Pp. 78. Illustrations. Photos. Index.. Paper, $12.95 Heroes, Rogues, and Just Plain Folks, an...

Political Abolitionism in Wisconsin, 1840-1861. (Book Reviews).(Review)
September 22, 1999... Michael J. McManus. Political Abolitionism in Wisconsin, 1840-1861. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1998. Pp. 288. Tables. Index. Bibliography. Cloth, $39.00. In its 1855 Independence Day editorial the Wisconsin State Journal...

The Yankee International: Marxism and the American Reform Tradition, 1848-1876. (Book Reviews).(Review)
September 22, 1999... Timothy Messer-Kruse. The Yankee International: Marxism and the American Reform Tradition, 1848-1876. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Pp. 319. Index. Bibliography. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $18.95. In this engaging and...

The war of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography. (Book Reviews).(Review)
September 22, 1999... Louis A. Perez, Jr. The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Pp. 192. Index. Bibliographical Essay. Cloth, $34.95; paper, $16.95. Of all the books...

Wetlands of the American Midwest: A Historical Geography of Changing Attitudes. (Book Reviews).(Review)
September 22, 1999... Hugh Prince. Wetlands of the American Midwest: A Historical Geography of Changing Attitudes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pp. 395. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Paper, $21.00. Hugh Prince, a former editor of the Journal...

Restless Visionaries: The Social Roots of Antebellum Reform in Alabama and Michigan. (Book Reviews).
September 22, 1999... John W. Quist. Restless Visionaries: The Social Roots of Antebellum Reform in Alabama and Michigan. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. Pp. 562. Tables. Bibliography. Index. Cloth, $57.50. For too long now historians of...

A Time for War: The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975. (Book Reviews).(Review)
September 22, 1999... Robert D. Schulzinger. A Time for War: The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. 381. Index. Illustrations. Paper, $15.95. Robert Schulzinger takes a fresh look at the Vietnam War by drawing on...

Citizen Soldiers in the War of 1812. (Book Reviews).(Review)
September 22, 1999... C. Edward Skeen. Citizen Soldiers in the War of 1812. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1999. Pp. 240. Cloth, $27.50. This volume is a sweeping study of the federal government's use of state militias to bolster the regular army...

Religion and the American Experience: a Social and Cultural History, 1765-1997. (Book Reviews).(Review)
September 22, 1999... Donald C. Swift. Religion and the American Experience: A Social and Cultural History, 1765-1997. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1997. Pp. 315. Illustrations. Bibliography. Cloth, $66.95; paper, $25.95. Many scholars and other commentators regard...

F. K. Weyerhauser: A Biography. (Book Reviews).(Review)
September 22, 1999... Charles E. Twining. F. K. Weyerhauser. A Biography. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1997. Pp. 332. Illustrations. Bibliographic Essay. Index. Cloth,. $29.95. This volume recounts the life of Frederick King Weyerhauser (1895-1978),...

For Faith and Fortune: The Education of Catholic Immigrants in Detroit 1805-1925. (Book Reviews).(Review)
September 22, 1999... JoEllen Vinyard. For Faith and Fortune: The Education of Catholic Immigrants in Detroit 1805-1925. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. Pp. 310. Illustrations. Index. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $18.95. JoEllen Vinyard is a highly...

The Historic Architecture of Bay City, Michigan. (Book Reviews).(Review)
September 22, 1999... Dale Patrick Wolicki. The Historic Architecture of Bay City, Michigan. Midland, MI: Bay County Historical Society, 1998. Pp. 278. Index. Bibliography. Illustrations. Cloth, $35.95. I consider Dale Patrick Wolicki's The Historic Architecture...

Editor's page.
September 22, 1999... Although history may not repeat itself, this issue's articles remind us that many social and political problems are hardy perennials. In an era when prisons consume an increasing share of state budgets, it may be some consolation to realize...