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Can you identify these nine notable Michigan women? If you get stumped, you will find the answers on page 65. Caption: 1) Michigan Senate, photograph by Tom Gennara. 2) Library [...]

In the early twentieth century, the Michigan Central Railroad was expanding. The company decided to replace its downtown Detroit depot with a larger, grander one in the Corktown neighborhood. The [...]

Greatest Female Jazz Singers Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, and Betty Carter Greatest Male Jazz Singers Billy Eckstine, King Pleasure, and Eddie Jefferson Favorite Musician George Shearing Greatest Jazz [...]

Legendary Black vaudeville entertainer Bert Williams experienced some of his most significant career milestones in Detroit, Michigan. His comic persona was born during a show at the city's Moore's Wonderland [...]

As the first female field research biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Elizabeth Browne Losey faced challenges in her pursuit of a career in conservation. By disregarding the [...]

The Michigan Environmental Hall of Fame posthumously honored Huldah Neal, the first female conservation officer in the United States, during a ceremony at Grand Valley State University in August. Neal [...]

The Historical Society of Michigan is hosting its 2018 Michigan History Conference, formerly known as the State History Conference, in Sturgis. The conference takes place from September 21 to 23 [...]

Researchers and scholars can now search the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society Papers by text. This valuable collection, part of the William L. Clements Library of the University of Michigan, has [...]

Michigan State University (MSU) Libraries recently acquired a 25,000-piece archive of 1960s-1970s rock-and-roll history rooted in Michigan. The collection was purchased from Melissa and Jack Bodnar, who describe it as [...]

In late summer of 1922, dozens of Communists arrived in the town of Bridgman to hash out the future of their movement in the dunes along Lake Michigan. The convention [...]

Detroit, Michigan, wrapped its loving arms around Dinah Washington throughout her successful singing career--and personally when she settled down to live in the city in 1963. No one could have [...]

As the Commanding General of the U.S. Army, Ulysses S. Grant led the Union to victory during the Civil War. Four years later, he took the nation's helm as the [...]

It should come as no surprise that Ernest Hemingway chose Northern Michigan as the setting for his first wedding. The rural countryside near Walloon Lake was his first real love, [...]

As the women's movement took hold of the country in the 1970s, women at the University of Michigan (U-M) rallied to address the glaring discriminatory practices that favored male students [...]

Not many people both make history and work to preserve it, but John Logie--a popular Grand Rapids attorney and politician-certainly has. First elected mayor of Grand Rapids in 1991, he [...]

Esther Van Wagoner Tufty was known to many as "The Duchess." The sister of Michigan Governor Murray D. Van Wagoner, she earned a reputation as a trailblazing journalist who informed [...]

A clarinet eased into an opening verse, inviting those who were not already on the dance floor at Detroit's famous Graystone Ballroom to join the percolating crowd. Young women--"fly chicks," [...]

Frank Sinatra was unquestionably one of the most popular singers of the twentieth century. His name remains a symbol of a bygone era of jazz and swing, and his music [...]