Michigan Historical Review articles from September 2001

Michigan Historical Review archives from September 2001

The power of porch talks: the Civic Improvement Society of Monroe, Michigan, 1901 to 1914. (2000 Student Essay Prize Winner).
September 22, 2001... The scholarship of the much-studied Progressive movement typically has focused on the national level, on large urban contexts, and on "important" biographies. Yet this urge to improve the quality of life occurred in many groups and numerous...

Making war more lethal: Iroquois vs. Huron (1) in the Great Lakes Region, 1609 to 1650.
September 22, 2001... In the stillness of a July morning in 1609 near the lake that now bears his name, Samuel de Champlain, armed with an arquebus into which he "put four bullets," approached to "within some thirty yards" of a loose formation of Mohawk warriors. He...

Henry Ford, industrial ecologist or industrial conservationist? Waste reduction and recycling at the Rouge.
September 22, 2001... American automakers claim to have finally gotten religion. The religion they are touting is "industrial ecology," the idea that manufacturers assume responsibility for the environmental consequences of their products by adopting product designs...

"Never leave me": the wartime correspondence of Peg and George Edwards, 1944 to 1945.
September 22, 2001... Much has been written about the impact of World War II on gender relations and family values. Scholars have focused on women in the workplace and debated the amount of change that occurred in the status of women and its impact on the postwar...

Continental auto politics: the failure of opposition to the 1965 auto pact in Canada and the United States (1).
September 22, 2001... Following its signing in January of 1965 by Prime Minister Lester Pearson and President Lyndon Johnson, the Canada-United States Automotive Products Trade Agreement (auto pact) faced determined opposition on both sides of the international...

Controlling Vice: Regulating Brothel Prostitution in St. Paul, 1865-1883. (Book Reviews).(Review)
September 22, 2001... Joel Best. Controlling Vice: Regulating Brothel Prostitution in St. Paul, 1865-1883. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2000. Pp. 184. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. Cloth, $42.50; paper, $16.95. In the late nineteenth century officials...

Tom Taylor's Civil War. (Book Reviews).(Review)
September 22, 2001... Albert Castel. Tom Taylor's Civil War. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. Pp. 256. Bibliography. Index. Cloth, $29.95. This book by the distinguished Civil War historian Albert Castel tells the remarkable story of Thomas T. Taylor,...

A Fragile Capital: Identity and the Early Years of Columbus, Ohio. (Book Reviews).(Review)
September 22, 2001... Charles C. Cole, Jr. A Fragile Capital: Identity and the Early Years of Columbus, Ohio. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2001. Pp. 220. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. Cloth, $45.00. A Fragile Capital is the first attempt to write a...

The Sandstone Architecture of the Lake Superior Region. (Book Reviews).(Review)
September 22, 2001... Kathryn Bishop Eckert. The Sandstone Architecture of the Lake Superior Region. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2000. Pp. 328. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Indices. Notes. Photographs. Cloth, $39.95. This is a remarkably...

Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. (Book Reviews).(Review)
September 22, 2001... Nan Enstad. Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Pp. 320. Bibliography. Index. Cloth, $52.00; paper, $17.50. ...

The Lynchings in Duluth.(Review)
September 22, 2001... Michael Fedo. The Lynchings in Duluth. St Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2000. Pp. 208. Index. Maps. Photos. Paper, $14.95. That anyone is familiar with the lynchings of three African-American men in Duluth, Minnesota, is a...

The American Mayor: The Best & the Worst Big-City Leaders.(Review)
September 22, 2001... Melvin G. Holli. The American Mayor. The Best & the Worst Big-City Leaders. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. Pp. 210. Appendices. Illustrations. Cloth, $47.50; paper, $18.95. Melvin Holli, a historian at the...

Provincial Lives: Middle-Class Experience in the Antebellum Middle West.(Review)
September 22, 2001... Timothy R. Mahoney. Provincial Lives: Middle-Class Experience in the Antebellum Middle West. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. 334. Bibliography. Index. Cloth, $54.95. This is an important book for those who seek to understand...

Labor's Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-1921.(Review)
September 22, 2001... Joseph A. McCartin. Labor's Great War. The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-1921. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Pp. 304. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index....

Blue Jacket: Warrior of the Shawnees.(Review)
September 22, 2001... John Sugden. Blue Jacket: Warrior of the Shawnees. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. Pp. 362. Illustrations. Index. Maps. Cloth, $29.95. In John Sugden's fine biography of Blue Jacket, we see that in his time (1743-1808) there...

County Courthouses of Ohio.
September 22, 2001... Susan W. Thrane. County Courthouses of Ohio. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. Pp. 264. Bibliography. Glossary. Photographs. Cloth, $39.95. This handsome compendium by a former Ohio lawyer on Ohio's county courthouses is a...

Southern Seed, Northern Soil: African-American Farm Communities in the Midwest, 1765-1900.(Review)
September 22, 2001... Stephen A. Vincent. Southern Seed, Northern Soil: African-American Farm Communities in the Midwest, 1765-1900. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. Pp. 272. Maps. Photographs. Cloth, $35.00. Stephen Vincent grew up a few miles from...

A Life in the Balance: The Memoirs of Stanley J. Winkelman.(Review)
September 22, 2001... Stanley J. Winkelman. A Life in the Balance: The Memoirs of Stanley J. Winkelman. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2000. Pp. 296. Illustrations. Index. Cloth, $29.95. These memoirs by the late Stanley J. Winkelman detail the life of a...

Editor's page.(Review)
September 22, 2001... The publication of our successful Detroit 300 issue in spring has had a lingering effect on the composition of this fall issue. Considerations of thematic unity prevented publication in spring of the wining entry from the 2000 student essay...