Clifford Trafzer's disturbing new work, Death Stalks the Yakama, examines life, death, and the shockingly high mortality rates that have persisted among the fourteen tribes and bands living on the Yak
Nickel Eclipse is a merging of personal and cultural history. Structured in part like the alternating colored beads on a wampum belt, patterns emerge from this exploration of contemporary life on an e
As the first European settlers in Michigan, the French Canadians left an indelible mark on the place names and early settlement patterns of the Great Lakes State. Because of its importance in the fur
On a cool, autumn day in October 1902, a group of Indians, known as Cupenos, noticed a white man approaching their village of Agua Caliente, located in a beautiful mountain valley in southern Californ
The Scandinavian countries - Denmark, Sweden, and Norway - provided over two million native sons and daughters to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Michigan's Sca
Several ethnic groups have come to Michigan from the British Isles. Each group of immigrants from this region—the Cornish, English, Irish, and Welsh—has played a significant role in American history.
Michigan State University Press, ProQuest, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and The New York Public Library are pleased to present a unique research, study and teaching resource for pro
The sixties---perpetually referenced, rarely understood---are mostly myth and symbol now. . . . Insider Histories of the Vietnam Era Underground Press helps to rescue that iconic moment from its entan
Ostrander and Bloomfield, curators at the Michigan Historical Museum, interviewed many immigrants or children of immigrants who came to Michigan during the twentieth century. The introduction reminds
Due to a lack of surviving documents from the pre-20th century lives of American women, most texts about pioneer women only piece together fragments of information, limiting our understanding of those
Simon Pokagon, the son of tribal patriarch Leopold Pokagon, was a talented writer, advocate for the Pokagon Potawatomi community, and tireless self-promoter. In 1899, shorty after his death, Pokag
This accessible, engaging text examines the impact of the trends that have shaped Michigan’s economy, and offers innovative solutions to the current economic crisis. Charles Ballard’s illuminating boo
Drawing on archival and published documents in several languages, archeological data, and Iroquois oral traditions, The Edge of the Woods explores the ways in which spatial mobility represented the ge
In the twenty years since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the fifteen new independent republics have embarked on unprecedented transitions from command economies into market-oriented economies.
Grandmother, Grandfather, and Old Wolf is a masterpiece of Native American scholarship. Introduced and edited by one of the foremost native writers and storytellers of our time, the book offers the vo
Still Pitching is a coming-of-age story about growing up in New York in the 1950s. It details how a passion for baseball?a passion fueled by New York’s ?golden age of baseball,” during which one of Ne
Mansfield and Vietnam: A Study in Rhetorical Adaptation is the first major work to examine the role played by Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, Democrat from Montana, in the formulation and execu
During the Second World War, Dwight D. Eisenhower formulated an ideology that encompassed deeply held ideas about human nature, society, and political life. From the day the war ended, Eisenhower prom
The Wounded Knee Massacre of December 29, 1890, known to U.S. military historians as the last battle in "the Indian Wars," was in reality another tragic event in a larger pattern of conquest, destruct
