Michigan Historical Review articles from September 2008

Michigan Historical Review archives from September 2008

Introduction: modern borderlands.
September 22, 2008... Surrounded by four of the Great Lakes, Michigan occupies a distinct space in a transnational region marked by centuries of cultural, economic, environmental, political, and social interaction. To explore this facet of the state's history, the...

The permeable border, the great Lakes region, and the Canadian-American relationship.
September 22, 2008... Largely undefended, virtually invisible, and easily traversed, the Canada-United States border has meant different things at different moments in the lives of these two countries and in their relationship to each other, most frequently perhaps...

The persistence of travel and trade: St. Lawrence river valley French engages and the American Fur Company, 1818-1840.
September 22, 2008... L'homme quebecois has little more parish consciousness than frontier consciousness. The true locus of his continuity is more temporal than spatial: it is the family. Relatives--the extended family--who are scattered over the continent and not...

Taming the "Savagery" of Michigan's Indians.
September 22, 2008... When immigrants from New England and western New York began streaming into Michigan ha the late 1820s, they voiced great alarm about the perceived barbarism and wildness of the territory's first inhabitants. Although Michigan's Native Peoples...

Navigating the landscape of assimilation: the Anishnabeg, the lumber industry, and the failure of federal Indian policy in Michigan.
September 22, 2008... In his groundbreaking work Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Benedict Anderson notes, "the fiction of the census is that everyone is in it, and that everyone has one--and only one--extremely clear...

Residents by day, visitors by night: the origins of the alien commuter on the U.S.-Canadian border during the 1920s.
September 22, 2008... Late in 1974, in the case of Saxbe v. Bustos, the United States Supreme Court at last ruled in the protracted dispute over the legal status of "alien commuters"--which in this instance were principally Mexican workers who lived in Mexico and...

Detroit and Windsor as transnational spaces: a case study of Asian Indian migrants.
September 22, 2008... A recent book, Permeable Border: The Great Lakes Basin as Transnational Region, 1650-1990, has drawn attention to the Great Lakes region as a transnational space. Emphasizing the economic and social linkages across this area, the authors...

Consuming freedom: the international freedom festival as transnational tourism strategy on the Windsor-Detroit border, 1959-1976.(Essay)
September 22, 2008... On June 30, 1959, Detroit commuters found morning traffic snarled by an intercontinental ballistic missile. As U.S. Air Force crewmen wrestled with a giant Atlas missile that seemed intent on pointing at the ground rather than the sky, traffic...

Joseph A. Amato. Jacob's Well: A Case for Rethinking Family History.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Joseph A. Amato. Jacob's Well: A Case for Rethinking Family History. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2007. Pp. 268. Index. Notes. Photographs. Cloth, $32.95. In this marvelous book, Joseph A. Amato introduces us to his...

David Barber. A Hard Rain Fell." SDS and Why It Failed.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... David Barber. A Hard Rain Fell." SDS and Why It Failed. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. Pp. 286. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Cloth, $50.00. Books about the New Left seem to portray radical movements of the sixties as either a...

David Blanke. Hell on Wheels: The Promise and Peril of America's Car Culture, 1900-1940.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... David Blanke. Hell on Wheels: The Promise and Peril of America's Car Culture, 1900-1940. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. Pp. 266. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $34.95. Automobiles killed about a half-million...

Nicholas P. Cushner. Why Have You Come Here? The Jesuits and the First Evangelization of Native America.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Nicholas P. Cushner. Why Have You Come Here? The Jesuits and the First Evangelization of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 255. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Paper, $29.95. Known for his work on Spanish colonialism...

George W. Geib and Donald B. Kite, Sr. Federal Justice in Indiana: The History of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... George W. Geib and Donald B. Kite, Sr. Federal Justice in Indiana: The History of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society Press, 2007. Pp. 350. Glossary. Index. Notes....

Ralph D. Gray. Meredith Nicholson: A Writing Life.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Ralph D. Gray. Meredith Nicholson: A Writing Life. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society Press, 2007. Pp. 281. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. Cloth, $19.95. At the turn of the twentieth century, Meredith Nicholson was a favorite...

Patrick J. Jung. The Black Hawk War of 1832.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Patrick J. Jung. The Black Hawk War of 1832. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. Pp. 288. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Maps. Notes. Cloth, $29.95. In this monograph about frontier conflict in the upper Midwest, Patrick Jung...

Catherine M. Lewis. The Changing Face of Public History: The Chicago Historical Society and the Transformation of an American Museum.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Catherine M. Lewis. The Changing Face of Public History: The Chicago Historical Society and the Transformation of an American Museum. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005. Pp. 172. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Paper,...

David I. Macleod, ed. Mapping in Michigan & the Great Lakes Region.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... David I. Macleod, ed. Mapping in Michigan & the Great Lakes Region. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2007. Pp. 377. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Maps. Notes. Cloth, $69.95. Cartography, the making and studying of maps,...

Jim McGarrah. A Temporary Sort of Peace.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Jim McGarrah. A Temporary Sort of Peace. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society Press, 2007. Pp. 251. Illustrations. Cloth, $19.95. Christian Appy argues in his landmark 1993 study, Working Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam,...

Eric D. Olmanson. The Future City on the Inland Sea: A History of Imaginative Geographies of Lake Superior.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Eric D. Olmanson. The Future City on the Inland Sea: A History of Imaginative Geographies of Lake Superior. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007. Pp. 276. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $27.00. If you are looking for a...

Barbara A. Perry. The Michigan Affirmative Action Cases.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Barbara A. Perry. The Michigan Affirmative Action Cases. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. Pp. 232. Bibliographic essay. Index. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $16.95. Barbara A. Perry's The Michigan Affirmative Action Cases analyzes two...

Paul Pierson and Theda Skocpol, eds. The Transformation of American Politics: Activist Government and the Rise of Conservatism.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Paul Pierson and Theda Skocpol, eds. The Transformation of American Politics: Activist Government and the Rise of Conservatism. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. 324. Figures. Illustrations. Index. Notes. References....

James Schmiechen. Raising the Roof: A History of the Buildings and Architecture in the Saugatuck and Douglas Area.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... James Schmiechen. Raising the Roof: A History of the Buildings and Architecture in the Saugatuck and Douglas Area. Rev. ed. Douglas, Mich.: Saugatuck-Douglas Historical Society, 2006. Pp. 178. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Paper,...

Deborah A. Skok. More than Neighbors: Catholic Settlements and Day Nurseries in Chicago, 1893-1930.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Deborah A. Skok. More than Neighbors: Catholic Settlements and Day Nurseries in Chicago, 1893-1930. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007. Pp. 241. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $38.00. The National...

Carl Smith. The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Carl Smith. The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. 183. Bibliographical essay. Illustrations. Index. Maps. Cloth, $22.00. To many observers of...

Melvin J. Visser. Cold, Clear, and Deadly: Unraveling a Toxic Legacy.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Melvin J. Visser. Cold, Clear, and Deadly: Unraveling a Toxic Legacy. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2007. Pp. 192. Bibliography. Index. Cloth, $24.95. Cold, Clear, and Deadly chronicles Michigan engineer Melvin Visser's...

Edward Watts. In This Remote Country: French Colonial Culture in the Anglo-American Imagination, 1780-1860.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Edward Watts. In This Remote Country: French Colonial Culture in the Anglo-American Imagination, 1780-1860. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. 288. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95. In this...

Barry Werth. 31 Days: Gerald Ford, the Nixon Pardon, and a Government in Crisis.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Barry Werth. 31 Days: Gerald Ford, the Nixon Pardon, and a Government in Crisis. New York: Anchor, 2007. Pp. 348. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Paper, $15.95. This interesting book chronicles the first thirty-one days of Gerald Ford's...

Editor's page.
September 22, 2008... As Nora Faires has outlined the themes of this issue in her introduction and John Bukowczyk has highlighted important questions concerning migration in his opening essay, I will not repeat what they have said so well. I do want especially to...