Great Lakes and Michigan History

The Diary of Bishop Frederic Baraga: First Bishop of Marquette, Michigan

Edited by Regis M. Walling and Reverend N. Daniel Rupp  •  Translated by Joseph Gregorich and Rev. Paul Prud’homme, S.J.

The diary of Frederic Baraga, Bishop of Upper Michigan detailing his missionary journeys from 1852 to 1863.

Michigan Remembered: Photographs from the Farm Security Administration and the Office of War Information, 1936–1943

Edited by Constance B. Schulz

A photographic history of Michigan during the Great Depression and World War II.

Ft Pontchartrain at Detroit: A Guide to the Daily Lives of Fur Trade and Military Personnel, Settlers, and Missionaries at French Posts

Timothy J. Kent

The complete anatomy of the interior post and settlement of Detroit’s historic fort and aspects of life in “New France.”

Off the Record: A Pictorial History of Saugatuck in the ’40s and ’50s — The Unpublished Photographs of Bill Simmons

James Schmiechen and William Kemperman

A collection of previously unpublished mid-century photographs of the Saugatuck area by “village photographer,” Bill Simmons.

“Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights”: Michigan, 1948–1968

Sidney Fine

A comprehensive account of civil rights developments in Michigan.

Growing Up in Old Lithuanian Town

Edward V. Gillis

A former resident tells the history of Old Lithuanian Town, the Grand Rapids enclave established by Lithuanian immigrants in the late nineteenth century.