Michigan Historical Review articles from September 2006

Michigan Historical Review archives from September 2006

Pontiac: local warrior or pan-Indian leader?
September 22, 2006... In 1848 a delegation of Menominee people from the Green Bay area of Wisconsin met a United States Commissioner of Indian Affairs to discuss the tribe's removal west of the Mississippi. One of the chiefs complained to a group of waiting Indians...

"Stirring constantly": 150 years of Michigan cookbooks.(Viewpoint essay)
September 22, 2006... We may live without poetry, music and art, We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends," we may live without books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. He may live without...

Booming baby food: infant food and feeding in post-World War II America.
September 22, 2006... In 1949 New York Times food writer Jane Nickerson devoted most of her regular column, "News of Food," to discussing the new Gerber recipe booklet, Special Diet Recipes, featuring Gerber-based recipes for adult invalids. Nickerson, her usual...

Remembering the Renaissance City: Detroit's bicentennial homecoming festival and urban redevelopment.
September 22, 2006... In 1976 the city of Detroit celebrated its 275th birthday. Designed to correspond with the American Revolution Bicentennial, Detroit's "Homecoming" festival promised "to be Michigan's biggest party ever." Complete with "jazzmen, actors,...

Soil surveys: a down-to-earth source of cultural information.
September 22, 2006... It is probably fair to say that few historians see soil surveys as potential tools of their trade. The truth is, however, that these publications offer a great deal of information that can benefit those who seek facts about the past. Soil...

William M. Anderson, ed. The View from the Dugout: The Journals of Red Rolfe.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... William M. Anderson, ed. The View from the Dugout: The Journals of Red Rolfe. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006. Pp. 325. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Tables. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $22.95. Atypical of baseball players of...

Le Roy Barnett. A Drive Down Memory Lane: The Named State and Federal Highways of Michigan.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Le Roy Barnett. A Drive Down Memory Lane: The Named State and Federal Highways of Michigan. Allegan Forest, Mich.: Priscilla Press, 2004. Pp. 288. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Maps. Cloth, $29.95. A Drive Down Memory...

Dave Dempsey. On the Brink: The Great Lakes in the 21st Century.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Dave Dempsey. On the Brink: The Great Lakes in the 21st Century. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2004. Pp. 304. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Paper, $24.95. Dave Dempsey's On the Brink broadly surveys the relationship...

Michael J. Douma. Veneklasen Brick: A Family, a Company, and a Unique Nineteenth-Century Architectural Movement in Michigan.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Michael J. Douma. Veneklasen Brick: A Family, a Company, and a Unique Nineteenth-Century Architectural Movement in Michigan. Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2005. Pp. 117. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Maps. Paper, $16.00. How do we learn to "read"...

Rhoda R. Gilman. Henry Hastings Sibley: Divided Heart.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Rhoda R. Gilman. Henry Hastings Sibley: Divided Heart. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2004. Pp. 320. Bibliography. Index. Maps. Notes. Photographs. Cloth $32.95. Henry Hastings Sibley: Divided Heart is a much-needed...

H. Roger Grant. "Follow the Flag": A History of the Wabash Railroad Company.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... H. Roger Grant. "Follow the Flag": A History of the Wabash Railroad Company. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2004. Pp. 291. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $49.95. In "Follow the Flag," H. Roger Grant sets out...

Charles K. Hyde. The Dodge Brothers: The Men, the Motor Cars, and the Legacy.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Charles K. Hyde. The Dodge Brothers: The Men, the Motor Cars, and the Legacy. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2005. Pp. 251. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $34.95. Charles Hyde has written a scholarly but very...

Randal Maurice Jelks. African Americans in the Furniture City: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Grand Rapids.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Randal Maurice Jelks. African Americans in the Furniture City: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Grand Rapids. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. Pp. 217. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $25.00. Since the...

Cecile Wendt Jensen. Detroit's Polonia.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Cecile Wendt Jensen. Detroit's Polonia. Mt. Pleasant, S.C.: Arcadia Press, 2006. Pp. 128. Photographs. Paper, $19.95. Cecile Wendt Jensen's Detroit's Polonia is a wonderful example of both the strengths and the weaknesses of volumes...

Marina Moskowitz. Standard of Living: The Measure of the Middle Class in Modern America.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Marina Moskowitz. Standard of Living: The Measure of the Middle Class in Modern America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Pp. 320. Essay on sources. Index. Notes. Cloth, $45.00. Most Americans have a good sense of what it...

David Roberts. In the Shadow of Detroit: Gordon M. McGregor, Ford of Canada and Motoropolis.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... David Roberts. In the Shadow of Detroit: Gordon M. McGregor, Ford of Canada, and Motoropolis. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2006. Pp. 320. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Map. Tables. Cloth, $34.95. David Roberts's book is not...

Howard P. Segal. Recasting the Machine Age: Henry Ford's Village Industries.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Howard P. Segal. Recasting the Machine Age: Henry Ford's Village Industries. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005. Pp. 244. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $34.95. In Recasting the Machine Age, Howard P. Segal...

Timothy J. Todish and Todd E. Harburn. A "Most Troublesome Situation": The British Military and the Pontiac Indian Uprising of 1763-1764.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Timothy J. Todish and Todd E. Harburn. A "Most Troublesome Situation": The British Military and the Pontiac Indian Uprising of 1763-1764. Fleischmanns, N.Y.: Purple Mountain Press, 2006. Pp. 223. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index....

Rudi Volti. Cars and Culture: The Life Story of a Technology.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Rudi Volti. Cars & Culture: The Life Story of a Technology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. 171. Bibliography. Glossary. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Paper, $19.95. After finishing Cars & Culture, my first thought was...

Books received.
September 22, 2006... Arnett, Marvin V. Pieces from Life's Crag Quilt. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. Pp. 175. Cloth, $26.95. Arnett provides us with an insightful memoir of her Detroit upbringing in the 1930s and 1940s. This work is also a...

Editor's page.
September 22, 2006... Let me start with a small confession: In searching for a cover illustration I wanted something reasonably eye-catching. The result is a small adventure in inauthenticity, as there is no known portrait of Pontiac and to my eye everything in the...