Michigan Historical Review articles from September 2007

Michigan Historical Review archives from September 2007

Calm or conflicted? Labor-management relations on Michigan's iron ranges in the nineteenth century.
September 22, 2007... On Tuesday, July 11, 1865, Frank Mills, superintendent of the Cleveland Iron Mining Company, cowered in his office near the company's mining pits outside the Upper Peninsula village of Ishpeming, scribbling a panicked, disorganized, rambling...

History on stage: the Detroit Players, Prohibition, and the great Depression.(The Players)(Organization overview)
September 22, 2007... Nov. 26, 1918: Meeting of the Board of Governors of "The Players" was called to order by Vice-President Weeks (accent on the Vice).... Player Standish was penalized a bottle of Scotch for being absent without leave. Jan. 14, 1919: After a...

Constructing the homeland: Dutch Americans and the Netherlands Information Bureau during the 1940s.
September 22, 2007... As Nazi Germany occupied the Netherlands and the Japanese military threatened the Netherlands East Indies in the summer of 1941, the Netherlands government in exile in London and the government of the Netherlands East Indies officially...

"Breaking the plane": integration and black protest in Michigan State University football during the 1960s.(Era overview)
September 22, 2007... Before top-ranked Notre Dame played second-ranked Michigan State University (MSU) in November 1966, the media built up the contest as "the game of the century." It was the first time in college-football history that the top two teams would meet...

Crashing the party: the ill-fated 1968 presidential campaign of Governor George Romney.
September 22, 2007... Governor George Romney of Michigan is most commonly remembered for his 1967 comment that he had been subjected to "brainwashing" by American military and diplomatic officials when he participated in a 1965 fact-finding mission to Vietnam. This...

John W. Barry. The Midwest Goes to War: The 32nd Division in the Great War.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... John W. Barry. The Midwest Goes to War: The 32nd Division in the Great War. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2007. Pp. 184. Appendix. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Paper, $45.00. In The Midwest Goes to War, John W. Barry examines...

Edward E. Curtis IV. Black Muslim Religion in the Nation of Islam, 1960-1975.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Edward E. Curtis IV. Black Muslim Religion in the Nation of Islam, 1960-1975. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. 256. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95. Edward E. Curtis IV...

Lewis A. Erenberg. The Greatest Fight of Our Generation: Louis vs. Schmeling.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Lewis A. Erenberg. The Greatest Fight of Our Generation: Louis vs. Schmeling. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 288. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Paper, $15.95. After the Brown Bomber's crushing victory over the Black Uhlan of...

Paul Finkelman and Martin J. Hershock, eds. The History of Michigan Law.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Paul Finkelman and Martin J. Hershock, eds. The History of Michigan Law. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006. Pp. 304. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Cloth, $49.95. This book presents twelve essays on the legal traditions of a state that is,...

Matthew J. Friday. Among the Sturdy Pioneers: The Birth of the Cheboygan Area as a Lumbering Community, 1778-1935.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Matthew J. Friday. Among the Sturdy Pioneers: The Birth of the Cheboygan Area as a Lumbering Community, 1778-1935. Victoria, B.C.: Trafford, 2006. Pp. 162. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Photographs. Paper, $19.99. "I never in my life...

Dan Georgakas. My Detroit: Growing Up Greek and American in Motor City.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Dan Georgakas. My Detroit: Growing Up Greek and American in Motor City. New York: Pella, 2006. Pp. 312. Illustrations. Paper, $17.00. In My Detroit: Growing Up Greek and American in Motor City, labor historian Dan Georgakas weaves together...

Marie A. Gile and Marion T. Marzolf. Fascination with Fiber: Michigan's Handweaving Heritage.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Marie A. Gile and Marion T. Marzolf. Fascination with Fiber: Michigan's Handweaving Heritage. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006. Pp. 184. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. Paper, $24.95. This slim, well-illustrated volume by...

Susan Elaine Gray. "I Will Fear No Evil": Ojibwa-Missionary Encounters along the Berens River, 1875-1940.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Susan Elaine Gray. "I Will Fear No Evil": Ojibwa-Missionary Encounters along the Berens River, 1875-1940. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2006. Pp. 214. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Paper, $29.95. Although at...

Adam Green. Selling the Race: Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940-1955.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Adam Green. Selling the Race: Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940-1955. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. 306. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $35.00. The story of the Reverend Martin Luther King,...

James Green. Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... James Green. Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America. New York: Pantheon Books, 2006. Pp. 383. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $26.95. On the...

Andrew E. Kersten. Labor's Home Front: The American Federation of Labor during World War II.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Andrew E. Kersten. Labor's Home Front: The American Federation of Labor during World War II. New York: New York University Press, 2006. Pp. 273. Illustrations. Index. Note on Sources. Notes. Cloth, $42.00. Andrew E. Kersten seeks to redress...

Alice Kessler-Harris. Gendering Labor History.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Alice Kessler-Harris. Gendering Labor History. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. Pp. 392. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $25.00. Gendering Labor History is both the title of Alice Kessler-Harris's collection of...

Steve Lehto. Death's Door: The Truth behind Michigan's Largest Mass Murder.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Steve Lehto. Death's Door: The Truth behind Michigan's Largest Mass Murder. Troy, Mich.: Momentum Books, 2006. Pp. 231. Bibliography. Notes. Paper, $19.95. During a Christmas celebration in 1913, a man walked into the Italian Hall in...

Steve Leikin. The Practical Utopians: American Workers and the Cooperative Movement in the Gilded Age.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Steve Leikin. The Practical Utopians: American Workers and the Cooperative Movement in the Gilded Age. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2005. Pp. 233. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $44.95. The nineteenth-century...

Robert Dale Parker, ed. The Sound the Stars Make Rushing through the Sky: The Writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Robert Dale Parker, ed. The Sound the Stars Make Rushing through the Sky: The Writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. Pp. 288. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth,...

Stephen Rowe, ed. Old Hopes for a New Place: The Legacy of Arend D. Lubbers at Grand Valley State University.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Stephen Rowe, ed. Old Hopes for a New Place: The Legacy of Arend D. Lubbers at Grand Valley State University. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2006. Pp. 152. Photographs. Cloth, $39.95. Stephen Rowe, professor of philosophy at...

Nick Salvatore. Singing in a Strange Land: C. L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Nick Salvatore. Singing in a Strange Land: C. L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. Pp. 448. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Paper, $24.95. Few would...

Gail Satler. Two Tales of a City: Rebuilding Chicago's Architectural and Social Landscape, 1986-2005.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Gail Satler. Two Tales of a City: Rebuilding Chicago's Architectural and Soda/ Landscape, 1986-2005. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2006. Pp. 256. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $39.95. By almost anyone's...

Clayton Sinyai. Schools of Democracy: A Political History of the American Labor Movement.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Clayton Sinyai. Schools of Democracy: A Political History of the American Labor Movement. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2006. Pp. 292. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $22.50. When Alexis de Tocqueville lauded...

Edmund F. Wehrle. Between a River and a Mountain: The AFL-CIO and the Vietnam War.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Edmund F. Wehrle. Between a Raver and a Mountain: The AFL-CIO and the Vietnam War. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. Pp. 320. Bibliography. Drawing. Index. Notes. Photographs. Paper, $25.95. In Between a River and a Mountain,...

David K. Wiggins, ed. Out of the Shadows: A Biographical History of African American Athletes.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... David K. Wiggins, ed. Out of the Shadows: A Biographical History of African American Athletes. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2006. Pp. 500. Bibliographical essay. Index. Notes. Photographs. Cloth, $34.95. Out of the Shadows:...

Kevin L. Yuill. Richard Nixon and the Rise of Affirmative Action: The Pursuit of Racial Equality in an Era of Limits.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Kevin L. Yuill. Richard Nixon and the Rise of Affirmative Action: The Pursuit of Racial Equality in an Era of Limits. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006. Pp. 264. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Paper, $29.95. Kevin Yuill offers some...