50 Essential Michigan History Books

Given by Library of Michigan

54 Works 2,396 Books 22 Reviews ½ 3.9
The following list of 50 essential works of Michigan history was selected by a team of noted historians assembled by the Library of Michigan
WorkOrder Label
Frank Murphy: The Detroit Years (1975) by Sidney Fine
3 vols.
Frank Murphy: The New Deal Years (1979) by Sidney Fine
3 vols.
Frank Murphy: The Washington Years (1984) by Sidney Fine
3 vols.
Ford: Decline and rebirth, 1933-1962 (1963) by Allan Nevins
3 vols.
Ford: Expansion and Challenge 1915-1933 (1954) by Allan Nevins
3 vols.
Ford: The Times, the Man, the Company (1954) by Allan Nevins
3 vols.
At the Crossroads: Michilimackinac During the American Revolution (Michigan) (1978) by David A. Armour
Fishing the Great Lakes: An Environmental History, 1783-1933 (2000) by Margaret Beattie Bogue
The Women's Great Lakes Reader (1998) by Victoria Brehm
The Old Northwest: Pioneer Period, 1815–1840 [2-volume set] (1950) by R. Carlyle Buley
Cornflake crusade (1957) by Gerald Carson
Waiting for the Morning Train: An American Boyhood (Great Lakes Books) (1971) by Bruce Catton
Rites of Conquest: The History and Culture of Michigan's Native Americans (1992) by Charles E. Cleland
People of the Three Fires: The Ottawa, Potawatomi, and Ojibway of Michigan (1986) by James Clifton
State of war : Michigan in World War II (1979) by Alan Clive
Detroit: Race and Uneven Development (Comparitive American Cities) (1987) by Joe Darden
Michigan: A History of the Wolverine State (1965) by Willis F. Dunbar
All aboard! A history of railroads in Michigan (1969) by Willis F. Dunbar
Frontier Metropolis: Picturing Early Detroit, 1701-1838 (Great Lakes Books) (2001) by Brian Leigh Dunnigan
Buildings of Michigan (1993) by Kathryn Bishop Eckert
Expanding the frontiers of civil rights : Michigan, 1948-1968 (2017) by Sidney Fine
Sit-Down: The General Motors Strike of 1936-1937 (1969) by Sidney Fine
Violence in the Model City: The Cavanagh Administration, Race Relations, and the Detroit Riot of 1967 (1989) by Sidney Fine
The Birth of Mass Political Parties in Michigan, 1827-1861 (1971) by Ronald P. Formisano
The Territory of Michigan [1805-1837] (2002) by Alec R. Gilpin
The War of 1812 in the Old Northwest (1958) by Alec R. Gilpin
The Yankee West: Community Life on the Michigan Frontier (1996) by Susan E. Gray
Retrieving Michigan's Buried Past: The Archaeology of the Great Lakes State (Bulletin) (1999) by John R. Halsey
Settling the Great Lakes Frontier : Immigration to Michigan 1837-1924 (1970) by C. Warren Vander Hill
Reform in Detroit: Hazen S. Pingree and urban politics (1973) by Melvin G. Holli
The Northern Lights: Lighthouses of the Upper Great Lakes (Great Lakes Books) (1986) by Charles K. Hyde
Eighty Acres (The Condord Library Series) (1990) by Ronald Jager
Deep Woods Frontier: A History of Logging in Northern Michigan (Great Lakes Books) (1989) by Theodore J. Karamanski
Before the ghetto; black Detroit in the nineteenth century (1973) by David M. Katzman
The Making of Michigan 1820-1860: A Pioneer Anthology (Great Lakes Books) (1990) by Justin L. Kestenbaum
Michigan's Lumbertowns: Lumbermen and Laborers in Saginaw, Bay City, and Muskegon, 1870-1905 (Great Lakes Books) (1990) by Jeremy W. Kilar
Lewis Cass and the Politics of Moderation (1995) by Willard Carl Klunder
Cradle to Grave: Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines (1991) by Larry Lankton
The public image of Henry Ford : an American folk hero and his company (1976) by David Lanier Lewis
The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit: Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor (1995) by Nelson Lichtenstein
Rumrunning and the Roaring Twenties: Prohibition on the Michigan-Ontario Waterway (Great Lakes Books) (1995) by Philip P. Mason
A most unique machine; the Michigan origins of the American automobile industry (1975) by George S. May
Pontiac and the Indian Uprising (1947) by Howard H. Peckham
Michigan Place Names (1986) by Walter Romig
The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (1996) by Thomas J. Sugrue
Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History (1987) by Helen Hornbeck Tanner
Life for Us Is What We Make It : Building Black Community in Detroit, 1915–1945 (1992) by Richard W. Thomas
Steamboats & sailors of the Great Lakes (1991) by Mark L. Thompson
Strangers and sojourners : a history of Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula (1994) by Arthur W. Thurner
For Faith and Fortune: The Education of Catholic Immigrants in Detroit, 1805-1925 (Statue of Liberty Ellis Island) (1998) by JoEllen McNergney Vinyard
Weeks, George's Stewards of the State the Governors of Michigan by Weeks, George published by Historical Soc of Michigan [Hardcover] (1987) (1920) by George Weeks
The Middle Ground: Indian, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 (1991) by Richard White
This Is Detroit: 1701-2001 (Great Lakes Books) (2001) by Arthur M. Woodford
The Changing Face of Inequality: Urbanization, Industrial Development, and Immigrants in Detroit, 1880-1920 (1980) by Olivier Zunz

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