Though usually regarded as a footnote in automotive history, Maxwell Motor was one of the leading...

Near the turn of the twentieth century, 'Pine King' Justus S. Stearns was Michigan's largest prod...

Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, schooner trade was a well-developed syst...

As the chief source of information for many people and a key revenue stream for the country's bro...

Symbols of safety, reassurance, and guidance, lighthouses hold a special fascination for many peo...

From the Chrysler Six of 1924 to the front-wheel-drive vehicles of the 70s and 80s to the minivan...

Brewed in Detroitdescribes the history of the brewing industry in the Detroit metropolitan area (...

At the start of the Ford Motor Company in 1903, the Dodge Brothers supplied nearly every car part...

From 1870 to 1910 the prosperity of the copper and iron mining, lumbering, and shipping industrie...

In the port city of Manistee on the coast of Lake Michigan lives a girl named Mary. Mary's father...

As volunteer engineers for the Union army, the First Michigan Engineers and Mechanics regiment wa...

In the turbulent era from 1890 to the late 1930s, Detroit emerged as a leading industrial and urb...