Detroit History
Detroit Engine of America
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"Detroit: Engine of America" by R.J King This is the story of how, starting in 1701, a crude French settlement along the Detroit River became, in 1900, the birthplace of the automotive...
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...
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...
Building The Modern World: Albert Kahn in Detroit
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"Building the Modern World: Albert Kahn in Detroit" by Michael E. Hodges Building the Modern World: Albert Kahn in Detroit by Michael H. Hodges tells the story of the German-Jewish...
Rosie, A Detroit Herstory
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"Rosie, A Detroit Herstory" by Bailey Sisoy IsgroIllustrated by Nicole Lapointe Rosie, a Detroit Herstory is a remarkable story for young readers about women workers during World War II. At this...
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...
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...
Detroit: An American Autopsy
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"Detroit: An American Autopsy" by Charlie LeDuff An explosive exposé of America’s lost prosperity by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Charlie LeDuff Back in his broken hometown, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie LeDuff searches...
The Legacy of Albert Kahn
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"The Legacy of Albert Kahn" by W. Hawkins Ferry The Legacy of Albert Kahn salutes the achievements of one of America's most distinguished architects. Originally the catalog for a major...
A Peoples Atlas of Detroit
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A People's Atlas of DetroitEdited by Linda Campbell, Andrew Newman, Sara Safransky, and Tim Stallmann Detroit is widely known as the Motor City, but it has also given rise to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Lost Detroit: Stories Behind the Motor City's Majestic Ruins
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"Lost Detroit: Stories Behind The Motor City's Majestic Ruins," by Dan Austin. Lost Detroit tells the stories behind 12 of the city's most beautiful, all-but-forgotten landmarks and of the people behind...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Secret Societies in Detroit
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"Secret Societies in Detroit" By Bill Loomis Secret societies have operated in Detroit for most of the city’s history. Many started for fun and companionship. Others had more serious ends...
Irish Immigrants in Michigan: A History in Stories
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"Irish Immigrants in Michigan: A History in Stories" By Pat Commins & Elizabeth Rice To leave or stay was the question for the Irish in the nineteenth century. In Ireland,...
Hudson's: Detroit's Legendary Department Store
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"Hudson's: Detroit's Legendary Department Store" By Michael Hauser and Marianne Weldon For over a century, the J.L. Hudson's Department Store was more than just a store - it was a...
Detroit: A Motor City History
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"Detroit: A Motor City History" By David Lee Poremba On July 24, 1701, Antoine de La Mothe Cadillac stood in the heart of the wilderness on a bluff overlooking the Detroit...
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...
Detroit: The Black Bottom Community
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"Detroit: The Black Bottom Community" By Jeremy Williams Between 1914 and 1951, Black Bottom's black community emerged out of the need for black migrants to find a place for themselves. Because...
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....
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,...
Detroit's Corktown
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"Detroit's Corktown" by Armando Delicoto Detroit's Corktown celebrates the history of Detroit's oldest neighborhood. From Irish immigrants in the 1840s to urban pioneers of the 21st century, this community has...
Lost Detroit
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"Lost Detroit" by Cheri Y. Gay Contains 68 different losses from 1889 up to the present day, including schools, churches, theaters, clubhouses, parks, stores, hotels, offices, and factories Organized chronologically,...
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...
Turkey Stearnes and the Detroit Stars The Negro Leagues in Detroit, 1919-1933
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"Turkey Stearnes and the Detroit StarsThe Negro Leagues in Detroit, 1919-1933" by Richard Bak In recalling the early part of this century in baseball history, casual fans tend to glorify legends...
Detroit's Lost Poletown
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"Detroit's Lost Poletown: The Little Neighborhood That Touched a Nation" By Brianne Turczynski Poletown was a once vibrant, ethnically diverse neighborhood in Detroit. In its prime, it had a store...
Wicked Women of Detroit
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"Wicked Women of Detroit" By Tobin T. Buhk Author Tobin T. Buhk recounts the thrilling tales of Detroit's most violent, clever and misunderstood female criminals. "Queen of the Underworld" Sophie...
Pewabic Pottery: A History Handcrafted in Detroit
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"Pewabic Pottery: A History Handcrafted in Detroit" By Cara Catallo At the height of America's Arts and Crafts movement, Detroit neighbors Horace J. Caulkins and Mary Chase Perry pooled their...
Lost Restaurants of Detroit
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"Lost Restaurants of Detroit" By Paul Vachon Through stories and recipes nearly lost to time, author Paul Vachon explores the history of the Motor City's fine dining, ethnic eateries and...
Detroit: Ragtime and the Jazz Age
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"Detroit: Ragtime and the Jazz Age70s" By Jon Milan Detroit has always been at the forefront of American popular music development, and the ragtime years and jazz age are no...
Motor City Rock and Roll: The 1960s and 1970s
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"Motor City Rock and Roll: The 1960s and 1970s" By Bob Harris and John Douglas Peters Detroit is famous for its cars and its music. From the 1950s through the...
Detroit's Masonic Temple
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"Detroit's Masonic Temple" By Alex Lundberg and Greg Kowalski The largest Masonic temple in the world, Detroit's Masonic temple is a monumental structure with a rich and colorful history, befitting...
Detroit's Polonia
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"Detroit's Poloniat" By Cecile Wendt Jensen They made our cigars and our cars, but they also made Detroit their own. This is the history of Detroit's Polish community, Polonia. More...
Catholic Churches of Detroit
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"Catholic Churches of Detroit" By Roman Godzak Detroit was once known as the City of Churches. From a primitive log chapel on the banks of the Detroit River three centuries...
Detroit's Paradise Valley
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"Detroit's Paradise Valley" By Ernest H. Borden One of the most prominent and dynamic African-American neighborhoods in U.S. history, Paradise Valley served as a social and cultural mecca for Detroit's...
Black Baseball In Detroit
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"Black Baseball In Detroit" By Larry Lester, Sammy J. Miller and Dick Clark When the Negro National League was formed in Kansas City in 1920, a new chapter in sports...