A Guide through the History of Michigan
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2023
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2023
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The purpose of this volume is not to replace the excellent existing texts available on Michigan history but to provide guidance through state history in conjunction with other readings. Key terms, self-assessments, critical thinking questions, exercises, suggested reading lists, and other resources accompany this brief volume, and, to the author’s knowledge, this is the only Michigan history text to include these features. While by no means exhaustive, this text is comprehensive, strives for objectivity, and is meant as an accessible academic introduction to the study of Michigan history.
Introduction
CHAPTER 1 The Land: A Pleasant Peninsula
CHAPTER 2 The People of Michigan, before 1492
CHAPTER 3 The French: The Seventeenth Century in the Great Lakes
CHAPTER 4 War and Peace in the Great Lakes, 1700–1763
CHAPTER 5 Great Lakes Rebellions: The Northwest, 1763–1805
CHAPTER 6 The War of 1812 in the Great Lakes
CHAPTER 7 Settlement and Statehood
CHAPTER 8 Michigan’s Experience in the Underground Railroad and the Civil War
CHAPTER 9 Wood and Steel: Economy and Culture in the Late Nineteenth Century
CHAPTER 10 Motor City, Motor State: Industrialization in the Early Twentieth Century
CHAPTER 11 Michigan’s Experience in the Progressive Era and World War I
CHAPTER 12 Too Much and Too Little: Michigan in the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression
CHAPTER 13 Michigan’s World War II Experience
CHAPTER 14 Winter Water Wonderland: Midcentury Michigan, 1947–1979
CHAPTER 15 Modern Michigan—the Late Twentieth to Early Twenty-First Centuries
The purpose of this volume is not to replace the excellent existing texts available on Michigan history but to provide guidance through state history in conjunction with other readings. Key terms, self-assessments, critical thinking questions, exercises, suggested reading lists, and other resources accompany this brief volume, and, to the author’s knowledge, this is the only Michigan history text to include these features. While by no means exhaustive, this text is comprehensive, strives for objectivity, and is meant as an accessible academic introduction to the study of Michigan history.
Introduction
CHAPTER 1 The Land: A Pleasant Peninsula
CHAPTER 2 The People of Michigan, before 1492
CHAPTER 3 The French: The Seventeenth Century in the Great Lakes
CHAPTER 4 War and Peace in the Great Lakes, 1700–1763
CHAPTER 5 Great Lakes Rebellions: The Northwest, 1763–1805
CHAPTER 6 The War of 1812 in the Great Lakes
CHAPTER 7 Settlement and Statehood
CHAPTER 8 Michigan’s Experience in the Underground Railroad and the Civil War
CHAPTER 9 Wood and Steel: Economy and Culture in the Late Nineteenth Century
CHAPTER 10 Motor City, Motor State: Industrialization in the Early Twentieth Century
CHAPTER 11 Michigan’s Experience in the Progressive Era and World War I
CHAPTER 12 Too Much and Too Little: Michigan in the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression
CHAPTER 13 Michigan’s World War II Experience
CHAPTER 14 Winter Water Wonderland: Midcentury Michigan, 1947–1979
CHAPTER 15 Modern Michigan—the Late Twentieth to Early Twenty-First Centuries