Michigan Historical Review articles from September 2002

Michigan Historical Review archives from September 2002

The battle for shared governance: the Northern Michigan University Chapter of the American Association of University Professors, 1967 to 1976.
September 22, 2002... In the spring of 1976 the faculty at Northern Michigan University (NMU) in Marquette, Michigan, approved its first collective-bargaining contract with the university's administration. Faculty members' struggle for collective-bargaining rights...

"Can't forget the Motor City" (1): Creem magazine, rock music, Detroit identity, mass consumerism, and the counterculture.
September 22, 2002... "THIS is the last frontier, right outside the very walls where I sit," Dave Marsh declared from inside a grimy industrial loft in downtown Detroit where he lived and worked as a critic for the rock-music and counterculture magazine Creem....

Gray eminence in a gilded age: the forgotten career of Senator James McMillan of Michigan.(Biography)
September 22, 2002... On Monday, August 11, 1902, Michigan residents awoke to learn that their senior United States Senator, James McMillan, had died the day before from massive heart failure at his summer home in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts. Over the...

The organizational performance of Michigan's adjutant general and the federal provost marshal general in recruiting Michigan's boys in blue.
September 22, 2002... Nearly all of the Union Army's approximately two million men who left their peacetime lives for Civil War military duty served in the free states' militias and volunteer regiments. (1) The regular army accounted for fewer than 68,000 men. (2)...

Native-American slavery and territoriality in the colonial upper Great Lakes region.
September 22, 2002... Studies of slavery in the Great Lakes region have generally focused on African, rather than on Native-American slavery, and compared northern and southern institutions, touching only briefly on the importance of Indian slavery in the...

A millenarian family: Uriah Adams and a private second coming.(Biography)
September 22, 2002... American spirituality in the first half of the nineteenth century was as diverse as the young nation's population. Optimism brought about by successful expansion led to the belief that society could be made perfect. In the secular world...

David L. Angus and Jeffrey E. Mirel. The Failed Promise of the American High School, 1890-1995.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... New York: Teachers College Press, 1999. Pp. 259. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Cloth, $58.00; paper, $26.95. This slim book with a broad reach is history as advocacy. The authors, past and present historians of education at the University of...

Youngsoo Bae. Labor in Retreat: Class and Community among Men's Clothing Workers of Chicago, 1871-1929.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Albany: State University of New York Press. 2001. Pp. 295. Bibliography. Index. Cloth, $78.50; paper, $26.95. Labor in Retreat is significant for two reasons. First, it makes clear the features that made early-twentieth-century Chicago...

Darrell E. Bigham, ed. The Indiana Territory, 1800-2000: A Bicentennial Perspective.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 2001. Pp. 196. Bibliography. Index. Paper, $19.95. These eight essays come from two conferences and exhibit more than the usual diversity found in such publications. Scholars and especially...

Samuel M. Blackwell, Jr. In the First Line of Battle: The 12th Illinois Cavalry in the Civil War.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2001. Pp. 202. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Maps. Cloth, $35.00. In the First Line of Battle: The 12th Illinois Cavalry in the Civil War by Samuel M. Blackwell, Jr., is a comprehensive...

David Blanke. Sowing the American Dream: How Consumer Culture Took Root in the Rural Midwest.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Athens: Ohio University Press, 2000. Pp. 282. Bibliography. Index. Paper, $21.95. David Blanke argues in Sowing the American Dream: How Consumer Culture Took Root in the Rural Midwest that rural America's entanglement in modern consumer...

Ricardo J. Brown. The Evening Crowd at Kirmser's: A Gay Life in the 1940s.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Ed. William Reichard, intro. Allan H. Spear. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. Pp. 155. Cloth, $21.95. Ricardo Brown worked as a journalist from Alaska to Minneapolis, and the engaging style of his memoir bears witness to...

Andrew R. L. Cayton and Susan E. Gray, eds. The American Midwest: Essays on Regional History.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. Pp. 251. Index. Maps. Notes. Cloth, $35.00. Anthologies are sometimes weak: the essays are of uneven quality and the connection to an announced theme is uncertain or tenuous. Not so for this...

Dave Dempsey. Ruin and Recovery: Michigan's Rise as a Conservation Leader.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001. Pp. 368. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. Cloth, $42.50; paper, $19.95. Dave Dempsey sets the stage for his meticulously researched book about Michigan's roller-coaster conservation history...

Melvin G. Holli. The Wizard of Washington: Emil Hurja, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Birth of Public Opinion Polling.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. 153. Bibliography. Index. Cloth, $75.00. Today, only scholars of the 1930s have ever heard of Emil Hurja. In some ways this is most unfortunate, for Hurja, more than any other single individual, was...

James H. Madison. A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in America.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. 240. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. Cloth, $24.95. A Lynching in the Heartland tells the story of, arguably, the most infamous lynching to take place outside the South. On August 7, 1930, in Marion,...

Editor's Page.
September 22, 2002... It is always a pleasure to congratulate authors whose work has appeared in the Review. Tom McCarthy, who has a new job teaching history at the United States Naval Academy, has received the Henry Ford Heritage Association's literary award for...