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Pleasure Grounds of Death

The Rural Cemetery in Nineteenth-Century America

By Joy M. Giguere
Subjects: American Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, History, American History, Cultural Studies, Class Studies

Revealing how landscapes dedicated to the perpetual care of the dead mirrored the transformations and conflicts of the nineteenth century in American society

Corpse Crusaders

The Zombie in American Comics

By Chera Kee
Subjects: American Studies, Media Studies, New Media, Literary Studies, American Literature, History, American History, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Writing, Race and Ethnicity

Uncovering the undead stalking the panels of action/adventure and superhero comics

Conspiracy Theories and the Failure of Intellectual Critique

By Kurtis Hagen
Subjects: Philosophy, History, American History

Bias skews results

Bath Massacre, New Edition

America's First School Bombing

New Edition, Updated and Expanded Edition

By Arnie Bernstein
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, True Crime, History, History, American History

In Contempt

Defending Free Speech, Defeating HUAC

By Ed Yellin & Jean Fagan Yellin
Subjects: Memoir, History, American History, Political Science, Judicial Politics

How an American Family Went to the Supreme Court with a First Amendment Defense and Beat HUAC

Stamping American Memory

Collectors, Citizens, and the Post

By Sheila Brennan
Subjects: American Studies, History, American History
Series: Digital Humanities

Awarded the University of Michigan Press / Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC) publication prize for Notable Work in the Digital Humanities

Traveling Through Time

A Guide to Michigan's Historical Markers

Revised Edition

Edited by Laura Rose Ashlee
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, History, History, American History, Guidebook

The definitive illustrated guide to nearly 1,500 of Michigan's historic sites, updated and revised

Ninety Years Crossing Lake Michigan

The History of the Ann Arbor Car Ferries

By Grant Brown
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, History, History, American History, Maritime

An illustrated book about the visionary, risky, and influential business of transporting loaded railroad cars across Lake Michigan

A History of Ann Arbor

By Jonathan Marwil
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, History, History, American History, Ann Arbor/University of Michigan

A narrative history of Ann Arbor's transformation from frontier community to world-renowned center for learning and research

Open the Door

The Life and Music of Betty Carter

By William R. Bauer
Subjects: History, American History, Music, Jazz, Biography
Series: Jazz Perspectives

Presents the lifelong influence of Betty Carter's career and her music on the music world

Michigan's Capitol

Construction and Restoration

By William Seale
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, History, History, American History, Art and Culture

A history of the building and restoration of one of the nation's most prominent capitols.

The Automobile and American Culture

Edited by David L. Lewis & Laurence Goldstein
Subjects: Cultural Studies, History, American History

Looks at the impact of the automobile on American folkways

World War II Front Line Nurse

By Mildred A. MacGregor
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, History, Memoir, History, American History

The riveting personal account of a Michigan nurse's experiences in France, Germany, and Africa during the Second World War

Always Leading, Forever Valiant

Stories of the University of Michigan, 1817–2017

By Kim Clarke & U-M Bicentennial Office
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Ann Arbor/University of Michigan, Education, Higher Education, History, American History

An engaging look at the history of the University of Michigan on its 200th birthday

Henry Ford and Grass-roots America

By Reynold M. Wik
Subjects: History, American History, Cultural Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, History, American Studies
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

A study of Henry Ford and rural America in the 1920s

The Silent Guns of Two Octobers

Kennedy and Khrushchev Play the Double Game

New Edition, Updated

By Theodore Voorhees
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Political History, History, American History

Far from the brink

"Destined to Fail"

Carl Seashore’s World of Eugenics, Psychology, Education, and Music

By Julia Eklund Koza
Subjects: Education, Music, Disability Studies, History, American History, Psychology, Race and Ethnicity

How eugenics became a keystone of modern educational policy

Informing a Nation

The Newspaper Presidency of Thomas Jefferson

By Mel Laracey
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Political History, History, American History

How a dynamic, controversially elected president used the media to promote his image and policies

Sit-Down

The General Motors Strike of 1936-1937

With a New Foreword by Kim Moody

By Sidney Fine
Subjects: History, American History, Class Studies, American Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, History
Series: Class : Culture

Studies the most significant American labor conflict of the 20th century

Performing Flight

From the Barnstormers to Space Tourism

By Scott Magelssen
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, History, American History

A century of human aviation and space travel, seen through the lens of performance

The Silent Guns of Two Octobers

Kennedy and Khrushchev Play the Double Game

By Theodore Voorhees
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Political History, History, American History

Far from the brink

States at War

A Reference Guide for Michigan in the Civil War

By Richard F Miller
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, History, History, American History

The definitive guide for researching Michigan’s experience throughout the Civil War

An Independent Empire

Diplomacy & War in the Making of the United States

By Michael S. Kochin & Michael Taylor
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, History, American History, Political History

How the United States used methods of imperial diplomacy to recast itself into a global juggernaut

Zombie History

Lies About Our Past that Refuse to Die

By Peter Charles Hoffer
Subjects: History, American History, Political Science, American Politics

You can’t outrun it, but you can outsmart it

Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece

Kid pro quo?

By Gonda Van Steen
Subjects: American Studies, History, American History, European History, Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, European Literature

Reveals the history of how 3,000 Greek children were shipped to the United States for adoption in the postwar period

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