Great Lakes and Michigan History

Michigan Voices: Our State’s History in the Words of the People Who Lived It

Compiled and Edited by Joe Grimm

A fascinating assemblage of old family letters, diaries, journals, photos, and other memorabilia, Michigan Voices introduces the reader to a more personal side of the state’s history.

Luke Karamazov

Conrad Hilberry

An unusually vivid and detailed portrait of Kalamazoo serial killers Luke Karamazov and Tommy Searl.

Michigan Place Names: The History of the Founding and the Naming of More Than Five Thousand Past and Present Michigan Communities

Walter Romig

From Aabec in Antrim County to Zutphen in Ottawa County, Michigan Place Names is a compendium of information on the origins of the state’s geographical names.

Call It North Country: The Story of Upper Michigan

John Bartlow Martin

Call It North Country recounts the lives of miners, hunters, trappers, and lumberjacks—the hardy breeds who first populated the harsh land of the Upper Peninsula.

Two Who Were There: A Biography of Stanley Nowak

Margaret Collingwood Nowak

Margaret Nowak’s biography of her husband and his union organizing activities on behalf of the emerging United Autoworkers Union.

Custer and the Little Big Horn: A Psychobiographical Inquiry

Charles K. Hofling

Hofling examines the psychological context in which Custer operated in an attempt to understand the decisions which produced his final disaster.