Survival and Regeneration

Edmund Jefferson Jr. Danziger

• Paperback | Engels | Great Lakes Books
• Survival and Regeneration captures the heritage of Detroit's colorful Indian community through printed sources and the personal life stories of many N... Lees meer

Iron Fleet

George J Joachim

• Paperback | Engels | Great Lakes Books
• Iron Fleet focuses on the vital role played by the Great Lakes shipping industry during World War II. Iron Fleet focuses on the vital role played by t... Lees meer

Enterprising Images

John Vincent Jezierski

• Hardcover | Engels | Great Lakes Books
• The story of the most prolific African American photographers in North America. From its beginnings in York, Pennsylvania, in 1847, until the death of... Lees meer

Roy D. Chapin

J C Long

• Paperback | Engels | Great Lakes Books
• Now back in print, this is the only biography devoted to the life and career of Roy D. Chapin--one of the foremost figures in the history of Detroit's... Lees meer

Independent Man

Harry Barnard

• Paperback | Engels | Great Lakes Books
• First published in 1958 by Charles Scribner's Sons, Independent Man is the only book-length biography of one of Michigan's most remarkable men. His ma... Lees meer

House of Fields

Anne-Marie Oomen

• Paperback | Engels | Great Lakes Books
• The follow-up to Pulling Down the Barn, House of Fields is a collection of evocative personal essays that recall the many facets of a young girl's for... Lees meer

Young Henry Ford

Sidney Olson

• Paperback | Engels | Great Lakes Books
• Young Henry Ford is a visual and textual presentation of the first forty years of Henry Ford. Young Henry Ford is a visual and textual presentation of... Lees meer

I Hope This Reaches You

Hilary Connor

• Paperback | Engels | Great Lakes Books
• A medic's account of life during World War I. I Hope This Reaches You: An American Soldier's Account of World War I begins in May 1917 with Byron Fisk... Lees meer

Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

Tommy McIntyre

• Paperback | Engels | Great Lakes Books
• A compelling and detailed account of the search for the Oakland County child killer. A story of tragedy and grief, dead-ends and disappointments. In 1... Lees meer

Lake Invaders

William Rapai

• Paperback | Engels | Great Lakes Books
• An examination of the ecological damage that has been done by several invasive species in the Great Lakes. There are more than 180 exotic species in t... Lees meer

History of the Finns in Michigan

Armas K E Holmio

• Paperback | Engels | Great Lakes Books
• A history of the Finnish people in Michigan published in English for the first time. Michigan's Upper Peninsula was a major destination for Finns duri... Lees meer

The French Canadians of Michigan

Jean Lamarre

• Paperback | Engels | Great Lakes Books
• The first major study of the migration of French Canadians to Michigan during the nineteenth century and their substantial impact on the state's devel... Lees meer

No Equal Justice

Edward J Littlejohn, Peter J Hammer

• Paperback | Engels | Great Lakes Books
• The story of a civil rights icon and Black lawyer who fought racism and political oppression with uncommon devotion. Winner of a Michigan State Histor... Lees meer

The Political Activities of Detroit Clubwomen in the 1920s

Jayne Morris-Crowther

• Hardcover | Engels | Great Lakes Books
• Follows the work of Detroit women's organizations as they dealt with issues related to voting, industrialization, and immigration. In the early 1900s,... Lees meer

Michigan's Lumbertowns

Jeremy W Kilar

• Paperback | Engels | Great Lakes Books
• This study is a comprehensive history of these lumbertowns from their inception as frontier settlements to their emergence as reshaped industrial cent... Lees meer

"Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights"

Sidney Fine

• Paperback | Engels | Great Lakes Books
• Although historians have devoted a great deal of attention to the development of federal government policy regarding civil rights in the quarter centu... Lees meer

Queen of the Lakes

Mark L Thompson

• Paperback | Engels | Great Lakes Books
• This book is an account of the ships that have borne the name "Queen of the Lakes," an honorary title indicating that, at the time of its launching, a... Lees meer

The Last Good Water

Michael Delp

• Paperback | Engels | Great Lakes Books
• In his latest collection of poetry and prose, Michael Delp takes the reader back to nature and details his spiritual awakening within the freshwater o... Lees meer

Brewed in Detroit

Peter H Blum

• Hardcover | Engels | Great Lakes Books
• Brewed in Detroit describes the history of the brewing industry in the Detroit metropolitan area from its beginning in the 1830s to the present reviva... Lees meer

Fluid Frontier

• Paperback | Engels | Great Lakes Books
• As the major gateway into British North America for travelers on the Underground Railroad, the U.S./Canadian border along the Detroit River was a boun... Lees meer

"Old Slow Town"

Paul Taylor

• Hardcover | Engels | Great Lakes Books
• Details Detroit's tumultuous social, political, and military history during the Civil War. Though it was located far away from Southern battlefields, ... Lees meer

The Iron Hunter

Chase S Osborn

• Paperback | Engels | Great Lakes Books
• Autobiography of Michigan's controversial governor from the Upper Peninsula. Originally published in 1919, The Iron Hunter is the autobiography of one... Lees meer

Art in Detroit Public Places

Dennis Alan Nawrocki

• Paperback | Engels | Great Lakes Books
• Third edition of a favorite guide to major examples of public art in metropolitan Detroit, updated for the first time since 1999. The Detroit area is ... Lees meer

Windjammers

Ivan Walton, Joe Grimm

• Paperback | Great Lakes Books
• A collection of stories and songs of the men who sailed the schooners on the Great Lakes in the 19th century. The book presents the music once heard o... Lees meer