Great Lakes and Michigan History

“My Brave Mechanics”: The First Michigan Engineers and Their Civil War

Mark Hoffman  •  Foreword by William M. Anderson

An important and little-known chapter of Michigan’s Civil War history, drawn from the letters, diaries, and regimental records of the First Michigan Engineers and Mechanics regiment.

A Badger Boy in Blue: The Letters of Chauncey H. Cooke

William Mulligan, Jr.

The Civil War letters of a young Wisconsin soldier, previously published in the Wisconsin Magazine of History, 1920–1922, are made available for the first time to a wide audience.

Strike!: How the Furniture Workers Strike of 1911 Changed Grand Rapids

Jeffrey D. Kleiman

A history of the 1911 furniture workers strike that crippled Grand Rapids and changed the city in several important ways.

Lincoln’s “Ready-Made” Soldiers: Saugatuck Area Men in the Civil War

Kit Lane

The American Civil War as it affected two small townships in Western Michigan, described in the letters and manuscripts of soldiers from the area.

“I Hope to Do My Country Service”: The Civil War Letters of John Bennitt, M.D., Surgeon, 19th Michigan Infantry

Edited by Robert Beasecker

A revealing firsthand account of the Civil War as told through the letters of a Michigan regimental surgeon.

Rendezvous at the Straits: Fur Trade and Military Activities at Fort de Buade and Fort Michilimackinac, 1669–1781

Timothy J. Kent

A detailed chronicle of events in colonial-era Michilimackinac, drawing extensively on previously unpublished primary source material.