Detroit History
Detroit Engine of America
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"The Buildings of Detroit " by W Hawkins Ferry (Author),? John Gallagher (Foreword) First published in 1968, The Buildings of Detroit: A History by W. Hawkins Ferry is the definitive resource on...
The Kwame Sutra: Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick
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"The Kwame Sutra: Musings on lust, life and leadership from Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick" Compiled by M. L. Elrick and Jim Schaefer. From Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters M.L. Elrick and Jim...
The Guardian Building: Cathedral of Finance
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"The Guardian Building: Cathedral of Finance" by James W. Tottis The years between World War I and the economic collapse of 1929 witnessed Detroit's greatest building boom. Perhaps the most...
Rosie, A Detroit Herstory
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"The Quotations of Mayor Coleman A. Young" by Bill Mcgraw (editor) This little red book brings together many of the longtime Detroit Mayor?s most unforgettable lines in a format meant to...
Detroit's Eastern Market A Farmers Market Shopping and Cooking Guide, Third Edition
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"Detroit's Eastern Market :A Farmers Market Shopping and Cooking Guide, Third Edition" by Lois Johnson and Margaret Thomas Since 1887, Detroit’s Eastern Market, the largest open-air market of its kind in the...
The Quotations of Mayor Coleman A. Young
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"The Quotations of Mayor Coleman A. Young" by Bill Mcgraw (editor) This little red book brings together many of the longtime Detroit Mayor?s most unforgettable lines in a format meant to...
Greetings From Detroit: Historic Postcards from the Motor City
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"Grettings from Detroit: Historic Postcards from the Motor City" by Dan Austin Greetings from Detroit: Historic Postcards from the Motor City offers a glimpse into the past through more than two...
Yamasaki In Detroit : A Search for Serenity
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"Yamasaki In Detroit : A Search for Serenity" by John Gallagher Although his best-known project was the World Trade Center in New York City, Japanese American architect Minoru Yamasaki (1912 1986)...
The Detroit Riot of 1967
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"The Detroit Riot of 1967" by Huber G Locke During the last days of July 1967, Detroit experienced a week of devastating urban collapse-one of the worst civil disorders in...
Detroitland: A Collection of Movers, Shakers, Lost Souls, and History Makers from Detroit's Past
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"Detroitland: A Collection of Movers, Shakers, Lost Souls, and History Makers from Detroit's Past" by Richard Bak In Detroitland: A Collection of Movers, Shakers, Lost Souls, and History Makers from Detroit's...
Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit
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"Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit" by June Manning Thomas During the last days of July 1967, Detroit experienced a week of devastating urban collapse-one of the...
Blessed Solanus Casey
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"Blessed Solanus Casey" By Patricia Montemurri Whenever there was a knock at the Capuchin Monastery door, Fr. Solanus Casey answered. The Capuchin friar's prayers brought comfort and healing to visitors...
Reimagining Detroit: Opportunities for Redefining an American City
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"Reimagining Detroit: Opportunities for Redefining an American City" by John Gallagher. Experts estimate that perhaps forty square miles of Detroit are vacantfrom a quarter to a third of the city a...
Embracing a City, The Kresge Foundation in Detroit: 1993-2017
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"Embracing a City, The Kresge Foundation in Detroit: 1993-2017" By Tony Proscio and M.A. Farber The book provides a behind-the-scenes look into the unlikely partnerships, unique collaborations, variety of financial tools...
Forgotten Landmarks of Detroit
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"Forgotten Landmarks of Detroit" by Dan Austin The Motor City. The City of the Strait, The Arsenal of Democracy. Detroit is the city that put the world on wheels. Once the...
Detroit's Police Department
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"Detroit Police Department" By Lt. Donna Jarvis, Lt. Stephen W. White, Lt. Charles Wilson, and Officer Michael Woody Since its inception in 1865, the Detroit Police Department has been a trailblazer...
A Fluid Frontier: Slavery, Resistance, and The Underground Railroad in the Detroit River Borderland
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"A Fluid Frontier: Slavery, Resistance, and The Underground Railroad in the Detroit River Borderland" edited by Karolyn Smardz Frost and Veta Smith Tucker As the major gateway into British North...
Arsenal of Democracy : The American Automobile Industry in World War II
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"Chevrolet : 1960-2012" by Michael W.R. Davis Images of America: Chevrolet: 1960–2012 is the second of a two-volume photographic history of Chevrolet, one of the world’s best-known automotive brands, symbolized by...
Race, Religion, and the Pulpit: Rev. Robert L. Bradby and the Making of Urban Detroit
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"Techno Rebels: The Renegades of Electronic Funk" by Dan Sicko Author Dan Sicko demystifies techno's characteristics, influences, origins, and argued that although techno enjoyed its most widespread popularity in Europe,...
The Queen Next Door
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"The Queen Next Door " by Linda Solomon "Aretha was private. I respected this and she trusted me." Linda Solomon met Aretha Franklin in 1983 when she was just beginning her career as...
Detroit's Woodmere Cemetery
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"Detroit's Woodmere Cemetaery" by Gail D. Hershenzon In 1867, a roomful of men gathered in the office of a noted attorney to discuss Detroit's need for a rural cemetery. They...
Summer Dreams: The Story of Bob-lo Island
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"Summer Dreams: The Story of Bob-lo Island" by Patrick Livingston Located twenty miles south of Detroit where the Detroit River meets Lake Erie, Bob-lo Island was the ultimate summer playground...
Detroit's Grand River & Greenfield Neighborhood
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"Detroit's Grand River & Greenfield Neighborhood" By Joseph McCauley As Detroit developed northward from the riverfront, Woodward Avenue became a mecca for retail, restaurants, and services. The 1870s and 1880s...
Wicked Detroit
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"Wicked Detroit" By Mickey Lyons The Motor City boasts a long and sordid history of scoundrels, cheats and ne'er-do-wells. The wheeling and dealing prowess of founding father Antoine Cadillac is...
Hidden History of Detroit
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"Hidden History of Detroit" by Amy Elliott Bragg. Discover the Motor City before the motor: a muddy port town full of grogshops, horse races, haphazard cemeteries and enterprising bootstrappers from all...
Abandoned Detroit
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"Abandonded Detroit " by Kyle Brooky Few cities have seen the rise and fall that Detroit has. At its height, it was the fourth largest city in the U.S. with 1.85 million residents....
The Color of Law : Ernie Goodman, Detroit, and the Struggle for Labor and Civil Rights
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"The Color of Law : Ernie Goodman, Detroit, and the Struggle for Labor and Civil Rights" by Steve Babson, Dave Riddle, and David Elsila In a working life that spanned half a...
The Detroit Public Library : An American Classic
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"The Detroit Public Library : An American Classic" by Barbara Madgy Cohn and Patrice Rafail Merritt For the last century, the Detroit Public Library has ranked as one of the most beautiful...
The Birth of Detroit Sound: 1940 - 1964
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"The Birth of the Detroit Sound: 1940-1964" By Marilyn Bond and S.R. Boland From the 1940s through the early 1960s, a new form of popular music was born in...
Detroit: 1860-1899
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"Detroit: 1860-1899" By David Lee Poremba In this rare and unprecedented collection, discover Detroit as it once was, with the people and industries that flourished in this community prior to...
Detroit's Historic Eastern Market
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"Detroit's Historic Eastern Market" by Randall Fogelman and Lisa E. RushEstablished in 1891, Detroits Eastern Market is the largest historic market district in the United States. This cultural and commercial...
Detroit's Mount Olivet Cemetery
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"Detroit's Mount Olivet Cemetery" By Cecile Wendt Jensen Mount Olivet was the second Catholic cemetery developed by the Mount Elliott Cemetery Association. Now surrounded by city, Mount Olivet was nestled...
The Buildings of Detroit
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"The Buildings of Detroit " by W Hawkins Ferry (Author),? John Gallagher (Foreword) First published in 1968, The Buildings of Detroit: A History by W. Hawkins Ferry is the definitive resource on...
Labor in Detroit: Working in the Motor City
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"Labor in Detroit: Working in the Motor City" By Michael W. Smith and Thomas Featherstone On July 24, 1701, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac and his band of about 50...
The Grande Ballroom : Detroit's Rock 'n' Roll Palace
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"The Grande Ballroom : Detroit's Rock 'n' Roll Palace" by Leo Early In the 1920s, a jewel of Detroit entertainment arose on the Westside?the Grande Ballroom. The venue flourished under the...
Lost Car Companies of Detroit
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"Lost Car Companies of Detroit" by Alan Naldrett Among more than two hundred auto companies that tried their luck in the Motor City, just three remain: Ford, General Motors and Chrysler....
Detroit World War II
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"Detroit In World War II" by Gregory D. Sumner When President Roosevelt called for the country to be the great Arsenal of Democracy, Detroit helped turn the tide against fascism with...
Inside Shelby American
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"Remembering Detroit's Olympia Stadium" by Robert Wimmer In the late 1950s, a young John Morton was transfixed with sports car racing. His dreams of competition eventually led him to enroll,...
Packard Motor Company
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"Packard Motor Company" by Evan P. Ide Founded in 1899, the Packard Motor Car Company grew into one of America's finest automobile companies, producing cars that exemplified American quality and innovation....
Chevrolet : 1960-2012
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"Chevrolet : 1960-2012" by Michael W.R. Davis Images of America: Chevrolet: 1960–2012 is the second of a two-volume photographic history of Chevrolet, one of the world’s best-known automotive brands, symbolized by...
A History of Wayne State University in Photographs, Second Edition
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"A History of Wayne State University in Photographs, Second Edition" By Evelyn Aschenbrenner With a Foreword by M. Roy Wilson Wayne State University traces its earliest roots to the Civil War...
A Newscast for the Masses: The History of Detroit Television News
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"A Newscast for the Masses: The History of Detroit Television News" By Timothy Kiska As the chief source of information for many people and a key revenue stream for the...
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra : Grace, Grit, and Glory
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"The Detroit Symphony Orchestra : Grace, Grit, and Glory" by Laurie Lanzen Harris with Paul Ganson The Detroit Symphony Orchestra: Grace, Grit, and Glory details the history of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra...
The Saginaw Trail: From Native American Path to Woodward Avenue
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"The Saginaw Trail: From Native American Path to Woodward Avenue"By Leslie K. Pielack The Saginaw Trail led from the frontier town of Detroit into the wilderness, weaving through towering trees...
Motor City Mafia: A Century of Organized Crime in Detroit
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"Motor City Mafia: A Century of Organized Crime in Detroit" by Scott M. Burnstein Motor City Mafia chronicles the storied and hallowed gangland history of the notorious Detroit underworld. Scott...
Detroit's Michigan Central Station
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"Detroit's Michigan Central Station" by Kelli B. Kavanaugh In 1913, the Michigan Central Station opened its majestic entrances to the people of Detroit. Designed by Warren & Wetmore and Reed &...
Chevrolet: 1911-1960
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"Chevrolet: 1911-1960" By Michael W. R. Davis The Chevrolet car and truck business traces its roots back to Michigan's lumber industry in the middle of the 19th century. Lumber mills...
Forgotten Detroit
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"Forgotten Detroit" By Paul Vachon Detroiters know their history well. Founded in 1701 by Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, the city subsisted on a variety of industries: fur trading, stove building,...