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Author: Justin L. Kestenbaum
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
The Making of Michigan is a wide-ranging collection of primary accounts of life in Michigan during the pioneer period, the era from the 1820s to the outbreak of the Civil War. In this time of explosive growth, the state's population increased from 8,000 to 750,000. These emigrants brought the state into the union in 1837 and began to create a set of institutions and a way of life. Justin Kestenbaum draws on the rich documentary record left by those who sojourned in the state during this time and recorded their impressions. Not only pioneers but land speculators, missionaries, and sight-seers left valuable accounts of the Michigan landscape and its emerging society. Following a general introduction, the book is divided into six parts: The Interminable Forest, Laying the Foundation, The Great Migration, Education, A Vision of Life, and Political Life, each with its own brief introduction. Notes and a bibliography conclude this valuable resource history.
Kenneth E. Lewis, West to Far Michigan: Settling the Lower Peninsula, 1815–1860 (East Lansing: Michigan State ... 1985), 74; “Justice Denied: Michigan Legislature (1846),” in The Making of Michigan, 1820–1860: An Anthology, ed.
Author: Paul Finkelman
Publisher: Ohio University Press
This book will serve as the entry point for all future studies that involve the law in Michigan. With 2005 marking the bicentennial of the establishment of the Michigan Supreme Court, as well as the bicentennial of the creation of the Michigan Territory, The History of Michigan Law has appeal beyond the legal community to scholars and students of American history.
Actions of the Michigan Bird Records Committee for 1993 . Michigan Birds & Nat . ... 3 : 43-60 . Cook , A. J. 1893. Birds of Michigan . Lansing : Michigan Agricultural College Bull . No. 94 . ... The Making of Michigan 1820-1860 .
... “ 'A Common Feeling': Regional Identity and Historical Consciousness in the Old Northwest, 1820–1860,” Michigan ... Amanda Laugesen, The Making of Public Historical Culture in the West: 1880–1910: The Role of Historical Societies ...
Author: Sarah Koenig
Publisher: Yale University Press
How providential history—the conviction that God is an active agent in human history—has shaped the American historical imagination In 1847, Protestant missionary Marcus Whitman was killed after a disastrous eleven-year effort to evangelize the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest. By 1897, Whitman was a national hero, celebrated in textbooks, monuments, and historical scholarship as the “Savior of Oregon.” But his fame was based on a tall tale—one that was about to be exposed. Sarah Koenig traces the rise and fall of Protestant missionary Marcus Whitman’s legend, revealing two patterns in the development of American history. On the one hand is providential history, marked by the conviction that God is an active agent in human history and that historical work can reveal patterns of divine will. On the other hand is objective history, which arose from the efforts of Catholics and other racial and religious outsiders to resist providentialists’ pejorative descriptions of non†‘Protestants and nonwhites. Koenig examines how these competing visions continue to shape understandings of the American past and the nature of historical truth.
The Making of Michigan , 1820-60 : A Pioneer Anthology . Detroit : Wayne State ( 1990 ) . Ist ed . A sampling of orig docs & narratives from the pioneer period . F / no DJ . $ 20 Lakier , Aleksandr B. A Russian Looks at America .
Michigan . 1853-1965 . 11295a Eastman School of Music . Colleges and Universities . Music Education . New York ( Rochester ) . ... 1820-60 . 10987a Alabama ( Madison County ) . Politics . Settlement . Social Change . 1800-40 .
Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.
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Author: James Belich
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Why are we speaking English? Replenishing the Earth gives a new answer to that question, uncovering a 'settler revolution' that took place from the early nineteenth century that led to the explosive settlement of the American West and its forgotten twin, the British West, comprising the settler dominions of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. This book will reshape understandings of American, British, and British dominionhistories in the long 19th century. It is a story that has such crucial implications for the histories of settler societies, the homelands that spawned them, and the indigenous peoples who resisted them, that theirfull histories cannot be written without it.
Author: Michigan. Legislative CouncilPublish On: 1828
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“Origin and Destination of Tennessee Migrants, 1850–1860.” Tennessee Historical Quarterly ... “The County Origins of Southern Michigan's Settlers: 1800–1850. ... “The Origins of Canadian Settlers in Southern Michigan, 1820–1850.
Author: Douglas K. Meyer
Publisher: SIU Press
In Making the Heartland Quilt, Douglas K. Meyer reconstructs the settlement patterns of thirty-three immigrant groups and confirms the emergence of discrete culture regions and regional way stations. Meyer argues that midcontinental Illinois symbolizes a historic test strip of the diverse population origins that unfolded during the Great Migration. Basing his research on the 1850 U.S. manuscript schedules, Meyer dissects the geographical configurations of twenty-three native and ten foreign-born adult male immigrant groups who peopled Illinois. His historical geographical approach leads to the comprehension of a new and clearer map of settlement and migration history in the state. Meyer finds that both cohesive and mixed immigrant settlements were established. Balkan-like immigrant enclaves or islands were interwoven into evolving local, regional, and national settlement networks. The midcontinental location of Illinois, its water and land linkages, and its lengthy north-south axis enhanced cultural diversity. The barrier effect of Lake Michigan contributed to the convergence and mixing of immigrants. Thus, Meyer demonstrates, Illinois epitomizes midwestern dichotomies: northern versus southern; native-born versus foreign-born; rural versus urban; and agricultural versus manufacturing.