Great Lakes Reading Order
Reading Order
Independent Man: The Life of Senator James Couzens
1958
The Detroit Riot of 1967
1969
Detroit: City of Race and Class Violence
1972
Waiting for the Morning Train
1972
Call It North Country
1986
Danny and the Boys: Being Some Legends of Hungry Hollow
1987
Michigan Voices: Our State’s History in the Words of the People Who Lived It
1987
Seasons of Grace: A History of the Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit
1990
Cobb Would Have Caught It: The Golden Age of Baseball in Detroit
1991
John Jacob Astor: Business and Finance in the Early Republic
1991
Queen of the Lakes
1994
Turkey Stearnes and the Detroit Stars: The Negro Leagues in Detroit, 1919-1933
1994
The Northern Lights: Lighthouses of the Upper Great Lakes
1994
Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit
1997
The Long Winter Ends
1998
All-American Anarchist: Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement
1998
Toast of the Town: The Life and Times of Sunnie Wilson
1998
Father Abraham's Children: Michigan Episodes in the Civil War
1998
Huron: The Seasons of a Great Lake
1999
A Sailor's Logbook: A Season Aboard Great Lakes Freighters
1999
"Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights": Michigan, 1948-1968
2000
Graveyard of the Lakes
2000
Great Lakes Journey: A New Look at America's Freshwater Coast
2000
History of the Finns in Michigan
2001
Uppermost Canada: The Western District and the Detroit Frontier, 1800-1850
2002
Windjammers: Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors
2002
Michigan's Early Military Forces: A Roster and History of Troops Activated Prior to the American Civil War
2003
Riding the Roller Coaster: A History of the Chrysler Corporation
2003
The French Canadians of Michigan: Their Contribution to the Development of the Saginaw Valley and the Keweenaw Peninsula, 1840-1914
2003
Beyond the Windswept Dunes: The Story of Maritime Michigan
2003
A Hanging in Detroit: Stephen Gifford Simmons and the Last Execution under Michigan Law
2003
Roy D. Chapin: The Man Behind the Hudson Motor Car Company
2003
Angels in the Architecture: A Photographic Elegy to an American Asylum
2004
Pulling Down the Barn: Memories of a Rural Childhood
2004
To Keep the South Manitou Light
2004
"I Hope to Do My Country Service" : The Civil War Letters of John Bennitt, M.D., Surgeon, 19th Michigan Infantry
2005
The Dodge Brothers: The Men, the Motor Cars, and the Legacy
2005
Songquest: The Journals of Great Lakes Folklorist Ivan H. Walton
2005
Under Michigan: The Story of Michigan's Rocks and Fossils
2005
My Forty Years With Ford
2006
House of Fields: Memories of a Rural Education
2006
A Pocketful of Passage
2007
Detroit on Stage: The Players Club, 1910-2005
2007
A Badger Boy in Blue: The Letters of Chauncey H. Cooke
2007
Life with Mae: A Detroit Family Memoir
2007
When You Come Home: A Wartime Courtship in Letters 1941-45
2007
Who's Jim Hines?
2008
Storied Independent Automakers: Nash, Hudson, and American Motors
2009
Maxwell Motor and the Making of the Chrysler Corporation
2009
The Color of Law: Ernie Goodman, Detroit, and the Struggle for Labor and Civil Rights
2010
Monopoly on Wheels: Henry Ford and the Selden Automobile Patent
2011
Iron Will: Cleveland-Cliffs and the Mining of Iron Ore, 1847-2006
2011
The Fall and Recapture of Detroit in the War of 1812: In Defense of William Hull
2011
Lake Superior Profiles : People on the Big Lake
2012
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan: People, Law, and Politics
2012
Among the Enemy: A Michigan Soldier's Civil War Journal
2013
The Political Activities of Detroit Clubwomen in the 1920s: A Challenge and a Promise
2013
The Colored Car
2013
Arsenal of Democracy: The American Automobile Industry in World War II
2013
"Old Slow Town": Detroit during the Civil War
2013
Great Girls in Michigan History
2015
Race, Religion, and the Pulpit: Rev. Robert L. Bradby and the Making of Urban Detroit
2015
Young Henry Ford: A Picture History of the First Forty Years
2015
Justus S. Stearns: Michigan Pine King and Kentucky Coal Baron, 1845-1933
2015
A Beaver Tale: The Castors of Conners Creek
2016
Lake Invaders: Invasive Species and the Battle for the Future of the Great Lakes
2016
Designing Detroit: Wirt Rowland and the Rise of Modern American Architecture
2017
To the Copper Country: Mihaela's Journey
2017
Roads to Prosperity: Economic Development Lessons from Midsize Canadian Cities
2017
Survival and Regeneration: Detroit’s American Indian Community
2017
Whaleback Ships and the American Steel Barge Company
2018
Bold Boys in Michigan History
2018
John E. Fetzer and the Quest for the New Age
2018
Rosie, A Detroit Herstory
2018
Greening the Black Urban Regime: The Culture and Commerce of Sustainability in Detroit
2020
What the Chickadee Knows
2020
A Lincoln Legacy: The History of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan
2020
I Hope This Reaches You: An American Soldier’s Account of World War I
2020