November 26, 2012
PHOTO: Adorable couple playing with a dog in Palmer Park, 1890
Just what it sounds like.
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November 20, 2012
Frontier Anarchy: Pre-automotive Detroit history tour with THE DETROIT BUS COMPANY
Three-hundred years of history. Dozens of places you’ve been meaning to visit. The story of Detroit in person, from Hog Island to Log Cabin Park, Scott’s Folly to the State Fair. And we’re going to the bar.
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November 6, 2012
Election day special: Lewis Cass, Also-Ran
What happened the last time a Detroiter ran for President?
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October 21, 2012
Celebrate with us as Stevens T. Mason turns 201
In Michigan’s 175th year as a state, celebrate the life of our first, youngest, and fieriest governor: the hotspur Stevens T. Mason. We gather to toast his memory this Thursday, 10/25, in Capitol Park.
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October 17, 2012
The homeliest woman out west
Meet Mother Handsome.
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October 5, 2012
Palmer Park’s annual architecture tour is this Saturday, Oct. 6
And the log cabin will be open!
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September 14, 2012
Greenwood Cemetery, Birmingham
A cemetery founded for victims of an axe murderer in 1825.
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September 7, 2012
Briefly: The U.S. Brig Niagara is in town
See the ship that won back Detroit and learn how to shoot a flintlock pistol during a very special War of 1812 Bicentennial Navy Week.
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August 29, 2012
Detroit Labor History at the Lager House – Thursday, Aug. 30
The Detroit Drunken Historical Society welcomes Tony Paris of the Sugar Law Center to drink a bunch of beers, then walk us through the labor movement from its beginnings during the Depression to its radical re-imagining during the 1960s — and its impact on present-day labor relations.
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August 17, 2012
Detroit on Summer Vacation – Tonight at the Mackenzie House
Where to go on summer vacation when you’re a hopeless Detroit history nerd.
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August 16, 2012
Today is the bicentennial of the surrender of Detroit
Presently a shell whizzed past him, taking with it the pipe from his mouth. He was unharmed, but was so indignant at the unceremonious treatment and the loss of his pipe that he seized his musket and … fired at the battery of the enemy until his ammunition was exhausted.
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July 24, 2012
July 24, 1701: Cadillac lands
The story of Detroit begins on July 24, 1701, when an argumentative French fugitive shores his canoe on the banks of the strait and founds a city for the glory of King Louis XIV.
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July 19, 2012
Fall in love with Corrado Parducci, Detroit’s designer extraordinaire
Corrado Parducci designed much more than architectural ornamentation — he also painted intricate designs on the walls of his home, wove tapestries, carved wooden busts of his children, and designed hub caps and bumpers for cars. A guest post about Detroit’s most prolific designer from the maker of a new documentary.
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July 16, 2012
Two for fun: Detroit’s Drunk History Society is all over town this week
Upcoming events at Palmer Park and the SkyBar in Capitol Park. Bike rides + Underground Railroad history + horses.
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July 3, 2012
Happy Fourth of July, Detroit
A remarkable postcard from Campus Martius, July 4, 1866.
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June 21, 2012
Detroit and the War of 1812
Four reasons to celebrate Detroit’s role in the War of 1812. We’ll talk more at Drunk History on Thursday, 6/21.
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