Great Lakes and Michigan History

From Saginaw Valley to Tin Pan Alley: Saginaw’s Contribution to American Popular Music, 1890–1955

R. Grant Smith

Documents the work of more than sixty popular songwriters who hailed from Saginaw, including Isham Jones (It Had to Be You), and Ben Weisman (Paper Roses).

All-American Anarchist: Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement

Carlotta R. Anderson

A biography of Detroit’s controversial individualist anarchist and labor leader at the height of urban industrialization.

“Time by Moments Steals Away”: The 1848 Journal of Ruth Douglass

Robert L. Root, Jr.

A nineteenth-century journal provides an intriguing glimpse of Michigan’s early mining boom and backwoods life on Isle Royale.

These Men Have Seen Hard Service: The First Michigan Sharpshooters in the Civil War

Raymond J. Herek

A compelling political, social, ethnic, and military drama, this book examines the lives of the men of one outstanding Michigan regiment during the Civil War.

Birchbark Canoes of the Fur Trade

Timothy J. Kent

A detailed history of the early Native American traveling craft.

In the Wilderness with the Red Indians: German Missionary to the Michigan Indians, 1847–1853

E. R. Baierlein  •  Translated by Anita Z. Boldt  •  Edited with an Introduction by Harold W. Moll

An account of a Lutheran missionary’s life with American Indians in central lower Michigan.