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Rum Running and the Roaring Twenties
Publication Date: May 2024
Michigan was the first state to ratify the amendment on April 10, 1933, and soon the Detroit River was returned to pleasure boats and fishing and commercial vessels whose holds no longer carried illegal liquor.
The Dodge Brothers
Publication Date: July 2023
Despite their achievements and their critical role in the early success of Henry Ford, John and Horace Dodge are usually overlooked in histories of the early automotive industry, but Hyde has put them front and center again to appropriately credit their lasting legacy.
Rescue, Relief, and Resistance
Publication Date: April 2021
Students and scholars of Holocaust and American studies will find this text vital to their continued studies.
No Haven for the Oppressed
Publication Date: December 2017
He suggests that a disinclination to sully themselves in negotiations with the Nazis and a fear that any ransom would prolong the global conflict, caused the Allies to offer only token overtures to the Nazis on behalf of the Jews.
All Our Yesterdays
Publication Date: December 2017
But more important, this is a story by and about the people of Detroit, for it is the people that have made this city great.
The Art of Memory
Publication Date: September 2014
Readers with roots in Grand Rapids as well as those interested in social and cultural history will enjoy The Art of Memory.
Images from the Arsenal of Democracy
Publication Date: March 2014
The first comprehensive and detailed history drawn solely from the surviving photographic record of wartime Detroit, Images from the Arsenal of Democracy will be appreciated by automotive historians, World War II scholars, and American history buffs.
Cinema and Community
Publication Date: July 2013
Film scholars interested in the early years of American cinema will appreciate this insightful study.
Redevelopment and Race
Publication Date: April 2013
A new postscript offers insights into changes since 1997.
