Michigan Historical Review articles from September 2005

Michigan Historical Review archives from September 2005

A catholic dilemma: white flight in Northwest flint.(2004 Student Essay Prize Winner)
September 22, 2005... Enshrined in a series of portraits in the parish hall of St. Agnes Catholic Church in Flint, Michigan, are its former pastors spanning the post-World-War-II era to the present. Pictured first is Father Olk pastor from 1944 to 1968 and also the...

A great revolution in feeling: the American Civil War in Niles and grand rapids, Michigan.
September 22, 2005... Shortly before eating his noonday meal on March 12, 1862, Charles Phillips of Niles, Michigan, received a telegram that announced the death of his son, William Phillips. William, who had been serving in the Third Michigan Cavalry, caught a...

Ionia and Houghton Lake State Road: Michigan's first designated state swamp land road.
September 22, 2005... The Ionia and Houghton Lake State Road was the first continuous road into the heart of central Michigan. The route was north, up the peninsula divide from the settled districts of the south-central portion of the state into the wilderness of...

"The Necessities of the Case": the response to the great thumb fire of 1881.
September 22, 2005... When Michigan became a state (1837), the area known as the Thumb was virtually unsettled, with only isolated outposts along Lake Huron and Saginaw Bay and a few interior clearings. Though Native Americans had lived, traveled, traded, trapped,...

The fruit belt line: Southwest Michigan's failed railroad.
September 22, 2005... The Kalamazoo, Lake Shore & Chicago Railway (KLS&C), affectionately known locally as the Fruit Belt Line, began as one among a blizzard of proposals for a new kind of electric railway, called an "interurban," that hopeful businessmen dreamed up...

Michigan in 1848: as described by Traugott Bromme in his handbook for German emigrants.
September 22, 2005... During the first half of the 1800s, especially from the 1830s onward, Europeans came to the United States in large numbers. One of them was a man named Traugott Bromine. Born near Leipzig in 1802, Bromine arrived in the United States a bit...

Cynthia Amneus. Separate Spheres: Dressmakers in Cincinnati's Golden Age, 1877-1922.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Cynthia Amneus. Separate Spheres: Dressmakers in Cincinnati's Golden Age, 1877-1922. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2003. Pp. 216. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Notes. Cloth, $32.50. One gets a rare glimpse into the business of...

Richard Bak. A Distant Thunder: Michigan in the Civil War.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Richard Bak. A Distant Thunder: Michigan in the Civil War. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Huron River Press, 2004. Pp. 239. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Maps. Notes. Cloth, $35.00. In writing an overview of Michigan's extensive involvement in...

John Barnard. American Vanguard: The United Auto Workers during the Reuther Years, 1935-1970.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... John Barnard. American Vanguard: The United Auto Workers during the Reuther Years, 1935-1970. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2004. Pp. 607. Bibliographical note. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $34.95. John Barnard's American...

Kevin Boyle. Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Kevin Boyle. Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age. New York: Henry Holt, 2004. Pp. 415. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. Cloth, $26.00; paper, $15.00. On September 8, 1925, an African-American...

Andrew Wender Cohen. The Racketeer's Progress: Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900-1940.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Andrew Wender Cohen. The Racketeer's Progress: Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900-1940. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 333. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Cloth, $60.00. Andrew Wender...

David Dixon. Never Come to Peace Again: Pontiac's Uprising and the Fate of the British Empire in North America.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... David Dixon. Never Come to Peace Again: Pontiac's Uprising and the Fate of the British Empire in North America. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005. Pp. 353. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $34.95. When David...

Jack Dougherty. More Than One Struggle: The Evolution of Black School Reform in Milwaukee.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Jack Dougherty. More Than One Struggle: The Evolution of Black School Reform in Milwaukee. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. 253. Bibliography. Index. Maps. Notes. Table. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95. Jack...

Mary Patrice Erdmans. The Grasinski" Girls: The Choices They Had and the Choices They Made.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Mary Patrice Erdmans. The Grasinska" Girls: The Choices They Had and the Choices They Made. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2004. Pp. 290. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $24.95. In The Grasinski Girls,...

David Farber. Sloan Rules: Alfred P. Sloan and the Triumph of General Motors.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... David Farber. Sloan Rules: Alfred P. Sloan and the Triumph of General Motors. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. 292. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. Paper, $15.00. In his introduction, David Farber warns that Sloan...

Terry Frei. Third Down and a War to Go: The All-American 1942 Wisconsin Badgers.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Terry Frei. Third Down and a War to Go: The All-American 1942 Wisconsin Badgers. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2005. Pp. 260. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Cloth, $26.95. In this moving account, Terry Frei examines the...

J. S. Fuerst, ed. When Public Housing Was Paradise: Building Community in Chicago.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... J. S. Fuerst, ed. When Public Housing Was Paradise: Building Community in Chicago. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 2003. Pp. 228. Bibliography. Index. Cloth, $67.95; paper, $20.00. This collection of oral histories describes the rise...

Martin J. Hershock. The Paradox of Progress." Economic Change, Individual Enterprise, and Political Culture in Michigan, 1837-1878.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Martin J. Hershock. The Paradox of Progress." Economic Change, Individual Enterprise, and Political Culture in Michigan, 1837-1878. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003. Pp. 324. Bibliography. Index. Cloth, $49.95. Martin Hershock confronts...

Sandra L. Planisek. Reliving Lighthouse Memories: 1930s-1970s.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Sandra L. Planisek. Reliving Lighthouse Memories: 1930s-1970s. Mackinaw City, Mich.: Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association, 2004. Pp. 262. Illustrations. Index. Cloth, $19.95; paper, $13.95. Sandra Planisek, director of the Great Lakes...

Henry Pratt. Churches and Urban Government in Detroit and New York, 1895-1994.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Henry Pratt. Churches and Urban Government in Detroit and New York, 1895-1994. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2004. Pp. 193. Bibliography. Index. Paper, $24.95. Few topics in American history are as timely and significant as the...

Amy G. Richter. Home on the Rails: Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Amy G. Richter. Home on the Rails: Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Pp. 296. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Paper, $19.95. In Home on the Rails, Amy...

Letter to the editor.(Letter to the editor)
September 22, 2005... To the Editor: I suggest Jennifer Wood in her review of Art in the Stations (MHR, 31, no. 1) missed the mission of the book. The choice of the art and its installation in the Detroit People Mover stations was undertaken twenty years...

Editor's page.
September 22, 2005... After two issues devoted to the mapping of Michigan and the Great Lakes, the Review returns to its usual format of articles on varied subjects. Some authors have been waiting a year. Although I will not make historian Barbara Tuchman's...