January 31, 2015
Here are the Representatives from Michigan who voted for the Thirteenth Amendment
There were six of them. 150 years ago, they all voted yes.
January 31, 2015
There were six of them. 150 years ago, they all voted yes.
December 31, 2013
A New Year’s greeting sent by telegraph, plus a humble selection of historical New Year’s Eve & Day anecdotes.
June 14, 2013
Designed by a Jew in 1908, it represents all manner of fate and tragedy. And it was first flown to celebrate baseball.
July 3, 2012
A remarkable postcard from Campus Martius, July 4, 1866.
December 29, 2011
December 21, 2011
A letter from sad William Woodbridge to his daughter Juliana, 1842.
November 23, 2011
Michigan was an early adopter of the Thanksgiving tradition.
July 11, 2011
Detroit’s other Independence Day.
July 1, 2011
A reading for the Fourth of July in Detroit.
May 27, 2011
A brief scrapbook of Detroiters, Veterans and countrymen (and women) from the Revolution to the Civil War.
February 21, 2011
James Monroe: the first President to visit Detroit. Also: last President to wear the old Revolutionary tri-corner.
December 22, 2010
Festive Christmas traditions from early Detroit, as related by General Friend Palmer. Pony races, mince pies and all-night noise-making.