Michigan Historical Review articles from September 2003

Michigan Historical Review archives from September 2003

"The committee ... has stood out against coercion": the reinvention of Detroit Americanization, 1915-1931.
September 22, 2003... To historians, the picture of the Americanization movement in Detroit has long seemed clear. The melting-pot pageantry of Henry Ford's English School and the family engineering of his Sociology Department have become well-known symbols for...

The Legacy of an Ojibwe "lumber chief": David Shoppenagon.
September 22, 2003... In 1897 the Ojibwe Indian David Shoppenagon wrote to an old friend, "I thought I would drop a few lines to inform you that I am still living. But getting very old!" (1) Although he claimed to be nearly ninety years of age when he wrote this...

Commercial Indians: authenticity, nature, and industrial capitalism in advertising at the turn of the twentieth century.
September 22, 2003... Imagine the sorrow: an American Indian is paddling his way down a quiet river when his harmony with this benevolent natural world is abruptly interrupted by factories spewing pollution and motorists tossing the leftovers of their fast-food...

"Free commoners by law": tradition, transition, and the closing of the range in Antebellum Michigan.
September 22, 2003... On a warm and rainy early summer's evening in June 1849, a number of horses belonging to Edward Williams wandered away from his Romulus Township, Michigan, farm and headed eastward, their Likely destination being the Hamtramck Township farm...

Working for democracy: working-class African-American women, citizenship, and civil rights in Detroit, 1940-1954.
September 22, 2003... Louise Thomas was tired. She had worked hard for no pay at the Commerce School in Detroit, learning riveting in a defense training class. She spent 120 hours in the classroom, sacrificing weeks of income for the chance at a wartime job, one...

Shared waters: natives and french newcomers on the great lakes.
September 22, 2003... Fort Miami Heritage Society, "Shared Waters: Natives and French Newcomers on the Great Lakes," exhibit at the Priscilla U. Byrns Heritage Center, 708 Market Street, St. Joseph, Michigan, January 2003 to January 2005. At the Priscilla U....

Leigh A. Arrathoon. Magical Adventures in Michigan.(Children's Review)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Rochester, Mich.: Paint Creek Press, 2003. Pp. 360. Illustrations. Cloth, $29.95. In Magical Adventures in Michigan, Leigh A. Arrathoon has again waved her pen and created another wonderful adventure series set in Michigan. Through the...

Harry Barnard. Independent Man: the Life of Senator James Couzens.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2002. First published 1958 by Scribner. Pp. 376. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Paper, $19.95. The title of Barnard's biography of James Couzens conveys the key theme developed in this reprint of...

Le Roy Barnett and Roger Rosentreter. Michigan's Early Military Forces: A Roster and History of Troops Activated Prior to the American Civil War.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003. Pp. 518. Index. Maps. Rosters. Cloth, $39.95. Le Roy Barnett and Roger Rosentreter spent twenty years researching the men who served in Michigan's military actions between 1775 and 1848....

David R. M. Beck. Siege and Survival: History of the Menominee Indians, 1634-1856.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. Pp. 280. Bibliography. Index. Maps. Tables. Photographs. Timeline. Cloth, $49.95. Like many other scholars of Native-American history, David R. M. Beck attempts to tell an all-too- familiar story...

Nat Brandt. Chicago Death Trap: the Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2003. Pp. 180. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Introduction. Notes. Cloth, $25.00. Nat Brandt, the veteran journalist, has a good ear for relevant history. The former managing editor of...

Kate Foss-Mollan. Hard Water: Politics and Water Supply in Milwaukee, 1870-1995.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 2001. Pp. 218. Bibliography. Figures. Index. Maps. Tables. Cloth, $36.95. Kate Foss-Mollan's Hard Water is a history of Milwaukee's water supply framed around the connections between local...

Barry Gough. Fighting Sail on Lake Huron and Georgian Bay: the War of 1812 and Its Aftermath.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2002. Pp. 264. Appendices. Bibliography. Chronology. Illustrations. Index. Maps. Notes. Cloth, $32.95. Fighting Sail on Lake Huron and Georgian Bay is a rare combination of an enjoyable read and...

Charles K. Hyde. Riding the Roller Coaster: a History of the Chrysler Corporation.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003. Pp. 272. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $34.95. Riding the Roller Coasteris a carefully researched, well-written, attractively illustrated, and comprehensive company history of...

John Vincent Jezierski. Enterprising Images: the Goodridge Brothers, African American Photographers, 1847-1922.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2000. Pp. 346. Index. Photographs. Cloth, $34.95. In Enterprising Images John Vincent Jezierski traces the founding, achievements, and influence of an entrepreneurial African-American family from the...

David O. Lyon. The Kalamazoo Automobilist.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Press, 2002. Pp. 523. Appendices. Illustrations. Index. References. Cloth, $39.95. This exhaustive study of Kalamazoo's automobile industry includes an introduction, thirty chapters, an epilogue, and a forty-eight-page technical...

Peter Morris. Baseball Fever: Early Baseball in Michigan.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003. Pp. 390. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $24.95. In the early 1990s George Plimpton presented his "Small Ball Theory," which states that the quality...

Larry Nesper. The Walleye War: the Struggle for Ojibwe Spearfishing and Treaty Rights.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. Pp. 245. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $19.95. In The Walleye War, Larry Nesper examines the seven-year conflict among Ojibwe spearfishers, local non-natives, and...

Bill Rauhauser and Martin Magid. Bob-Lo Revisited.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Ann Arbor, Mich.: Press Lorentz, 2003. Pp. 127. Notes. Photographs. Cloth, $35.00. Of all the forms of documentation used by historians, photographs are possibly the most underused. Historians read first-person accounts, collect written...

Elizabeth B. Sherman. Beyond the Windswept Dunes: the Story of Maritime Muskegon.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003. Pp. 216. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. Notes. Photographs. Paper, $29.95. Beyond the Windswept Dunes: The Story of Maritime Muskegon seeks to combine a history of both maritime activities in...

Ed Wargin and James McCullough. Voelker's Pond: a Robert Traver Legacy.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Chelsea, Mich.: Huron River Press, 2003. Pp. 144. Photographs. Cloth, $45.00. Most Michigan trout fishermen know that Robert Traver was the pen name of John Voelker. He was a native of Ishpeming who attended the University of Michigan Law...

Editor's page.(Editorial)
September 22, 2003... With autumn's first leaves falling as I write, next June feels distant. Plans are far advanced, however, for a conference whose results will appear in these pages a year and a half from now. Although my predecessor as editor, Carol Green,...