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Book

Michigan history

Call Numbers

  • J 977.4 SCHO (CEN, OSH)
  • RJ 977.4 SCHO (OSH)

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Publication Information

Chicago, Ill. : Heinemann Library, c2004.

Physical Description

48 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 27 cm.

Contents

  • Meeting of two worlds, to 1620
  • Explorers and native Americans in Michigan, 1585-1763
  • Revolution and the new nation, 1763-1815
  • Building roads to statehood, 1816-1849
  • Civil War and Reconstruction, 1850-1865
  • Michigan's industrial growth, 1866-1918
  • The Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945
  • Modern Michigan, 1946 to today
  • Map of Michigan
  • Timeline.

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