Most Recent Articles from Michigan Historical Review

• Habitues of the police court: criminal justice for the poor in Antebellum Detroit 

  The Police Court is undoubtedly the most reliable index of the lower order of city life that is accessible to the community at large. A certain...

  03/22/09 by Thomas Cragg · More from publication

• Civil War recruiting and recruits from ever-changing labor pools: Midland County, Michigan, as a case study 

  The eighth federal census of June 1, 1860, can be used to estimate the size of the Northern states' pool of potential recruits into the Union...

  03/22/09 by Robert E. Mitchell · More from publication

• 1945 Ad 

  In April 1945, as the Second World War pressed toward its conclusion and diplomats gathered in San Francisco to draft a charter for the new United...

  03/22/09 by Charlene Mires · More from publication

• "A catalyst for downtown": Detroit's Renaissance Center 

  In 1977, the first phase of the Renaissance Center opened on Detroit's riverfront, sparking controversy over the utility of private urban design...

  03/22/09 by Francis Desiderio · More from publication

• Paul Alkebulan. Survival Pending Revolution: The History of the Black Panther Party 

  Paul Alkebulan. Survival Pending Revolution: The History of the Black Panther Party. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007. Pp. 216....

  03/22/09 by Thomas S. Darragh · More from publication

• Heather Buchanan, Sharon Stanford, and Teresa Kimble, eds.: Eyes on Fire: Witnesses to the Detroit Riot of 1967 

  Heather Buchanan, Sharon Stanford, and Teresa Kimble, eds. Eyes on Fire: Witnesses to the Detroit Riot of 1967. Detroit: Aquarius Press, 2007. Pp....

  03/22/09 by Katherine E. Ellison · More from publication

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