In 1673, a Jesuit missionary, a fur trader, and a small group of canoe men traveled two thousand miles from what is now upper Michigan down to Arkansas and back.
A century ago the Soo canal was an insignificant ditch in a remote northern wilderness. Today it serves as the busiest industrial highway on earth.
Bill Mitchell’s imaginings brought you the cars of Detroit’s ultimate classic era
When copper-country miners went on strike, the owners brought thugs from the slums of New York to northern Michigan. The struggle led to an event that killed a city.
The great sit-down strike that transformed American industry
What happened when the richest man in America decided to collect one of everything
THE WAY I SEE IT
An excerpt from a new bicentennial history of his native state
"With half the western world at stake, See Perry on the middle lake.” —Nineteenth-century ballad
A FAMOUS HISTORIAN RECALLS THE COUNTRY WHERE HE GREW UP
THIRD OF FOUR INSTALLMENTS A FAMOUS HISTORIAN RECALLS THE COUNTRY WHERE HE GREW UP
SECOND OF FOUR INSTALLMENTS
A FAMOUS HISTORIAN RECALLS THE COUNTRY WHERE HE GREW UP
Henry Ford bought a $75,000 Stradivarius, learned to play “Turkey in the Straw,” and tried to teach all those Model T riders how to do-si-do like Grandpa
A FAMOUS HISTORIAN RECALLS THE COUNTRY WHERE HE GREW UP