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A leisurely Look at Michigan's stories and traditions from yesterday to yesteryear.
Yamasaki remains an important part of our international architectural heritage. This is part one of a two part blog on Yamasaki and his life as written by guest blogger Dale Allen Gyure, Ph.D.
The Archives of Michigan is home to several types of records related to land, and they can seem daunting at first.
Being a farm boy from Iowa did not stop Philip Theodore Troeger (1889-1976) from designing highways.
On April 5, 1968 Governor George Romney declared a state of emergency in Wayne County.
“My all time favorite things to read are the advertisements from the past.”
Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote about the long winter of 1880-1881. Our author recalls recalls a harsh winter from her own youth.
On June 23, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and former Michigan Governor John Swainson participated in the Detroit “Walk to Freedom.”
Lansing’s African American heritage is as old as the city itself.
In 1933, U.S. Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg discovered several interesting items squirreled away in the nation’s Capitol.
Through the fall and winter of 1812, American General William Henry Harrison prepared his army to recapture Detroit, which had been surrendered to the British on August 16th.

















