Michigan Historical Review articles from September 2004

Michigan Historical Review archives from September 2004

Preface.(histoy of mapping in Michigan)
September 22, 2004... Three years in preparation, this is the first of two special issues exploring Michigan's place in the history of cartography. In May of 2001, as the board of editors discussed the successful completion of the MHR's special issue, Detroit 300,...

First nations mapmaking in the Great Lakes region in intercultural contexts: a historical review.
September 22, 2004... At their first contact with Europeans, First Nations peoples throughout North America were making what Europeans intuitively categorized as terrestrial maps. Because mapmaking presupposes an ability to organize knowledge spatially,...

The 1767 maps of Robert Rogers and Jonathan Carver: a proposal for the establishment of the colony of Michilimackinac.
September 22, 2004... In 1767, while Major Robert Rogers and Captain Jonathan Carver were at Michilimackinac, each man prepared a manuscript map of the region bordering on the western Great Lakes. These two cartographic images are important snapshots of part of...

The search for the Canadian-American boundary along the Michigan frontier, 1819-1827: the boundary commissions under articles six and seven of the treaty of ghent.
September 22, 2004... The international boundary between the United States and Canada, or specifically Michigan and Ontario, was a product of the negotiations in Paris in 1782 and 1783 leading to the treaty that ended the Revolutionary War. We recognize that...

Mapping antebellum Euro-American settlement spread in southern lower Michigan.
September 22, 2004... During the first half of the nineteenth century, thousands of Euro-American agricultural settlers immigrated to the southern portion of Michigan's Lower Peninsula, occupying the region and dramatically altering its appearance. These settlers...

The holes in the grid: reservation surveys in lower Michigan.
September 22, 2004... On many of the topographical maps produced by the U.S. Geological Survey for Michigan, you will see a feature represented by a thin red line, curiously labeled "Old Indian Treaty Boundary" or "Old Indian Boundary." Sometimes this line follows...

Picturing progress: assessing the nineteenth-century atlas-map bonanza.
September 22, 2004... In December 1873 residents of Jackson County in southeastern Michigan learned of a new countywide project: "Mr. D.J. Stewart, of the firm Everts & Stewart was in the city yesterday," the Jackson Daily Citizen reported, "organizing his forces...

John D. Bessler. Legacy of Violence: Lynch Mobs and Executions in Minnesota.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... John D. Bessler. Legacy of Violence: Lynch Mobs and Executions in Minnesota. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. Pp. 307. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $29.95. Scholars have devoted considerable attention to the history...

Timuel D. Black, Jr. Bridges of Memory: Chicago's First Wave of Black Migration, an Oral History.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Timuel D. Black, Jr. Bridges of Memory: Chicago's First Wave of Black Migration, an Oral History. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2003. Pp. 600. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. Cloth, $29.95. In Bridges of Memory, the...

Ford R. Bryan. Rouge: Pictured in Its Prime, Covering the Years 1917-1940.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Ford R. Bryan. Rouge: Pictured in Its Prime, Covering the Years 1917-1940. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003. Pp. 285. Illustrations. Index. Cloth, $34.95. In 1913 Henry Ford began to plan his most fantastic endeavor, the...

Juan R. Garcia. Mexicans in the Midwest, 1900-1932.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Juan R. Garcia. Mexicans in the Midwest, 1900-1932. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003. Pp. 293. Bibliography. Index. Paper, $21.95. People of Mexican ancestry have lived in the Midwest for most of the twentieth century, yet there...

William J. Peace. Leslie A. White: Evolution and Revolution in Anthropology.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... William J. Peace. Leslie A. White: Evolution and Revolution in Anthropology. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. Pp. 292. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. Cloth, $55.00. William Peace has provided a thoroughly documented and...

Robert Michael Smith. From Blackjacks to Briefcases: A History of Commercialized Strikebreaking and Unionbusting in the United States.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Robert Michael Smith. From Blackjacks to Briefcases: A History of Commercialized Strikebreaking and Unionbusting in the United States. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003. Pp. 179. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. Paper, $21.95. In...

Mary Lethert Wingerd. Claiming the City: Politics, Faith, and the Power of Place in St. Paul.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Mary Lethert Wingerd. Claiming the City: Politics, Faith, and the Power of Place in St. Paul. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2003. Pp. 326. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $32.50; paper, $19.95. Mary Lethert...