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History of Michigan

Historical resources and archives about Michigan

General Histories of Michigan

General histories at Kresge Library in chronological order of publication:

James H. Lanman, History of Michigan, Civil and Topographical, in a Compendious Form; with a View of the Surrounding Lakes (1839)
Special Collections, F 566 .L29  and online

E. M. Sheldon, The Early History of Michigan, from the First Settlement to 1815 (1856)
Special Collections, F 566 .S54 and online

Charles R. Tuttle, General History of the State of Michigan; with Biographical Sketches, Portrait Engravings, and Numerous Illustrations. A Complete History of the Peninsular State from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time (1873)
F566 .T96 and online

James V. Campbell, Outlines of the Political History of Michigan (1876)
F566 .C19 and online

Men of Progress : Embracing Biographical Sketches of Representative Michigan Men with an Outline History of the State (ca 1900)
F565 .M55 and online

Cyclopedia of Michigan: historical and biographical, comprising a synopsis of general history of the state, and biographical sketches of men who have ... contributed toward its development (1890)
Online

Charles Moore, History of Michigan (1915)
F566 .M83 (vols. 2 and 4 only) and online

George N. Fuller, Economic and Social Beginnings of Michigan; A Study of the Settlement of the Lower Peninsula during the Territorial Period, 1805-1837 (1916)
F566 .F962 and online

George N. Fuller, Historic Michigan, Land of the Great Lakes; Its Life, Resources, Industries, People, Politics, Government, Wars, Institutions, Achievements, the Press, Schools and Churches, Legendary and Prehistoric Lore (1924)  
F566 .F97 and online

George N. Fuller, Michigan, a Centennial History of the State and its People (1939)
F 566 .M676 and online

Calvin Goodrich, The First Michigan Frontier (1940)
F566 .G66

M. M. Quaife and Sidney Glazer, Michigan: From Primitive Wilderness to Industrial Commonwealth (1948)
F566 .Q3 1980

Willis F. Dunbar, Michigan through the Centuries (1955)
F566 .D85
 

 

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