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HIS 3610: Michigan History
Module 4
HIS 3610: Michigan History
General Resources
Module 1
Module 2
Module 3
Module 4
Transportation
Logging
Mining
Agriculture and Fishing
Module 5
Module 6
Module 7
Module 8
Transportation
Introduction
Canals and Shipping
Railways
Roads
Discussion Exercise: Transport in Nineteenth-Century Michigan
Michigan Transportation History
History of Transportation in the U.S. Before 1860
Research Presentation: Michigan and Great Lakes Shipping
Beld Article on Grand River Steamboats
Person Article on Meade and U.S. Great Lakes Survey
Reynolds Article on Boat Building in Holland
Ohio and Erie Canalway National Heritage Area
Exploring the North: Houghton and Hancock
Michigan Radio Program on the Erie Canal
Wilke Article on the Clinton-Kalamazoo Canal Project
Association for Great Lakes Maritime History
BoatNerd: Great Lakes Seaway and Shipping
Dossin Great Lakes Museum
Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum
Michigan Maritime Museum
Atack et al. Paper on Railroads and Economic Growth
Atack et al. Paper on Banking and the Transportation Revolution
Bajema Article on Logging Railroad
Loomis Article on Great Railroad Conspiracy
Johnston Article on the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad
Michigan Railroad Museums Directory
RRHX: Railroad History of Michigan
Video on Michigan Railroads
Pohl and Brown Article on History of Michigan Roads
Public Acts That Created Territorial Roads in Michigan
Philip Mason Article on Plank Roads
McCormick Article on Plank Roads
Kalamazoo Public Library: Plank Roads
MSU Library: Footpaths to Freeways: The Evolution of Michigan Road Maps
Logging
Discussion Exercise: Lumber in Michigan
Brian Cleven Article on Henry Ford, Lumber, and Pequaming
Gordon Whitney Article on Michigan Forests
McMacken and Schupbach Article on White Pines
Mobley Article on Sawmill Strikes
Rypma Article on Logging in West Michigan
Michigan State University, "Michigan Forest History"
National Park Service, "Logging History"
A Brief History of Lumbering in Michigan
White Pine History: Logging in Michigan
Mining
Discussion Exercise: Mining in Michigan
U.S. Geological Survey, "The Lake Superior Iron Ranges: Geology and Mining"
Goings and Kaunonen Article on 1913 Strike
Mead Article on Native Claims to Iron in the U.P.
Reynolds Article on Iron Ore in the Civil War
Reynolds Article on Labor Relations in Mining
Reynolds Article on Mining Legacy
1913 Copper Strike (Video)
The Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company Historical Records Digitization Project (NMU)
Exploring the North: A Short History of Copper Mining
Mining Engineering History (Michigan Tech)
Mining History Association
Timeline of Michigan Copper Mining (Keewenaw)
Agriculture and Fishing
Houdek and Heller Article on Farmers and Businessmen
Moore Thesis on Agricultural History of Berrien County
Berrien County Peach Fever
Fishing the Great Lakes: An Environmental History, 1783-1933 (Bogue)
History of State-licensed Great Lakes commercial fishing (Michigan DNR)
Michigan Antebellum Farmers (Mitchell)
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