Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mount Clemens (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Centennial History of Mount Clemens, Michigan, 1879-1979
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mount Clemens (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The 22nd Michigan Infantry and the Road to Chickamauga
Author: John CohasseyPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476671664
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Called upon to take a hill at the 1863 Battle of Chickamauga, the untested 22nd Michigan Infantry helped to save General George H. Thomas' right flank. Formed in 1862, the regiment witnessed slavery and encountered runaways in the border state of Kentucky, faced near starvation during the siege of Chattanooga and marched to Atlanta as General Thomas' provost guard. This history explores the 22nd's day-to-day experiences in Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia. The author describes the challenges faced by volunteer farm boys, shopkeepers, school teachers and lawyers as they faced death, disease and starvation on battlefields and in Confederate prisons.
Michigan History Magazine
Author: Walking to Mackinac
Author: David E. BoniorPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472087976
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Congressman David E. Bonior and his wife walk the rails, trails, and back roads of Michigan's Lower Peninsula
Michigan History
Author: Jewish Life in Small-Town America
Author: Lee Shai WeissbachPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300127650
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
In this book, Lee Shai Weissbach offers the first comprehensive portrait of small-town Jewish life in America. Exploring the history of communities of 100 to 1000 Jews, the book focuses on the years from the mid-nineteenth century to World War II. Weissbach examines the dynamics of 490 communities across the United States and reveals that smaller Jewish centers were not simply miniature versions of larger communities but were instead alternative kinds of communities in many respects. The book investigates topics ranging from migration patterns to occupational choices, from Jewish education and marriage strategies to congregational organization. The story of smaller Jewish communities attests to the richness and complexity of American Jewish history and also serves to remind us of the diversity of small-town society in times past.
Michigan History Magazine
Author: George Newman FullerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Michigan
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
The Pulitzer Air Races
Author: Michael GoughPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 078647100X
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Three years after American raceplanes failed dismally in the most important air race of 1920, a French magazine lamented that American "pilots have broken the records which we, here in France, considered as our own for so long." The Pulitzer Trophy Air Races (1920 through 1925), endowed by the sons of publisher Joseph Pulitzer in his memory, brought about this remarkable turnaround. Pulitzer winning speeds increased from 157 to 249 mph, and Pulitzer racers, mounted on floats, twice won the most prestigious international air race--the Schneider Trophy Race for seaplanes. Airplanes, engines, propellers, and other equipment developed for the Pulitzers were sold domestically and internationally. More than a million spectators saw the Pulitzers; millions more read about them and watched them in newsreels. This, the first book about the Pulitzers, tells the story of businessmen, generals and admirals who saw racing as a way to drive aviation progress, designers and manufacturers who produced record-breaking racers, and dashing pilots who gave the races their public face. It emphasizes the roles played by the communities that hosted the races--Garden City (Long Island), Omaha, Detroit and Mt. Clemens, Michigan, St. Louis, and Dayton. The book concludes with an analysis of the Pulitzers' importance and why they have languished in obscurity for so long.
Go Back and Get It
Author: Dionne FordPublisher: Bold Type Books
ISBN: 1645030156
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
An unexpected family photograph leads Dionne Ford to uncover the stories of her enslaved female ancestors, reclaim their power, and begin to heal Countless Black Americans descended from slavery are related to the enslavers who bought and sold their ancestors. Among them is Dionne Ford, whose great grandmother was the last of six children born to a Louisiana cotton broker and the enslaved woman he received as a wedding gift. What shapes does this kind of intergenerational trauma take? In these pages, which move between her inner life and deep research, Ford tells us. It manifests as alcoholism and post-traumatic stress; it finds echoes in her own experience of sexual abuse at the hands of a relative, and in the ways in which she builds her own interracial family. To heal, Ford tries a wide range of therapies, lifestyle changes, and recovery meetings. “Anything,” she writes, “to keep from going back there.” But what she learns is that she needs to go back there, to return to her female ancestors, and unearth what she can about them to start to feel whole.
Guide to the Michigan Genealogical & Historical Collections at the Library of Michigan and the State Archives of Michigan
Author: Michigan Genealogical CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Michigan
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description