Michigan: A History of the Wolverine State Book

List of Maps
Preface

1. The Physical Environment
2. Michigan's First Residents
3. The French Explorers
4. Michigan under French Development
5. Michigan under the British Flag
6. Michigan and the Old Northwest, 1783-1805
7. Michigan's Troubled Decade, 1805-1815
8. Exit the Fur Trader; Enter the Farmer
9. The Era of the Pioneers
10. Political Development and Cultural Beginnings
11. A Stormy Entrance into the Union
12. A Cycle of Boom, Bust, and Recovery
13. Out of the Wilderness, 1835-1860
14. Michigan Leads the Way in Education
15. Politics in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Michigan
16. Michigan and the Civil War
17. The Heyday of the Lumber Industry
18. The Mining Boom
19. An Expanding Transportation Network
20. Citadel of Republicanism
21. The Growth of Manufacturing
22. Michigan and the Automobile
23. Progressivism and the Growth of Social Consciousness
24. World War I and Its Aftermath
25. Michigan Becomes an Urban State
26. Depression and War
27. The Postwar Years
28. Years of Change and Turmoil
29. The Enrichment of Cultural Life
30. Toward a New Century

Suggestions for Further Reading
Appendix I
Appendix II
Notes
Index