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Michigan
 Websites presented in alphabetical order Detroit: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary 
 Travel itinerary for visiting historic areas in and around Detroit. "Though many of these places do have connections to the city's most famous industry, others show that automobiles have been just a part of what has driven Detroit's development." Features photos and information about locations such as Henry Ford's Fair Lane estate, the Ford River Rouge Complex, General Motors Building, and Mies van der Rohe Residential District. From the National Park Service (NPS). http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/detroit/ Topics: U.S. History By Place Last updated Sep 17, 2008 The Ghostly Salt City Beneath Detroit
This article provides a history of the salt mines of Detroit, "a ghostly city with its own network of four lane highways [which] lies deep beneath the industrial heart of Detroit." Includes vintage photos. From The Detroit News. http://apps.detnews.com/apps/history/index.php?id=17 Topics: Geology, U.S. History By Place Last updated Mar 27, 2009 Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910
A collection of historical materials pertaining to the states of Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin from the 1600s through the early 1900s. Includes first-person accounts, biographies, promotional literature, local histories, ethnographic and antiquarian texts, and colonial archival documents. Searchable; and browsable by author, subject, and title. From the American Memory Project, Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/umhtml/umhome.html Topics: U.S. History By Place, United States History Last updated Mar 30, 2004 Remembering the Flint Sit-Down Strike, 1936-1937
This interactive exhibit explores the 1936-37 strike at General Motors in Flint, Mich., through numerous oral histories, an audio timeline, a map of the strike location, and a narrated slideshow. Searchable. From Michigan State University, "created with support from the National Science Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities." http://www.historicalvoices.org/flint/ Topics: Activism, Business, Labor, Nonfiction by Genre, U.S. History By Place, United States History Last updated Jul 21, 2006 Seeking Michigan
This site's mission is to provide "access to unique historical information that promotes Michigan's cultural heritage. ... [defined] as the stories of Michigan's families, homes, businesses, communities and landscapes as told by unique source documents, maps, films, images, oral histories and artifacts." Search the collection, or browse online collections such as Civil War photographs, oral histories, and architecture. Also includes the "Look" and "Teach" blogs. From the Michigan History Foundation. http://seekingmichigan.org/ Topics: U.S. History By Place Last updated Jul 29, 2009 |
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