Great Lakes Books Series

History of the Finns in Michigan

Armas K. E. Holmio  •  Translated by Ellen M. Ryynanen

A history of the Finnish people in Michigan published in English for the first time.

Angels in the Architecture: A Photographic Elegy to an American Asylum

Heidi Johnson

An intimate photographic journey into 115 years of history inside a nineteenth-century asylum.

Uppermost Canada: The Western District and the Detroit Frontier, 1800–1850

R. Alan Douglas

Examines the historical, cultural, and social history of the Canadian portion of the Detroit River community in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Windjammers: Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors

Ivan H. Walton with Joe Grimm

A collection of stories and songs of the men who sailed the schooners on the Great Lakes in the nineteenth century. Includes 15-track audio CD.

Detroit Tigers Lists and More: Runs, Hits and Eras

Mark Pattison and David Raglin

A wide-ranging compilation of facts, statistics, stories, and entertaining speculation, this book distills a hundred-plus years of Detroit baseball history into more than four hundred lists.

The Iron Hunter

Chase S. Osborn

Autobiography of one of Michigan’s most influential and flamboyant historical figures: the reporter, publisher, explorer, politician, and twenty-seventh governor of Michigan, Chase Salmon Osborn (1860–1949).