MICHIGAN
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Last updated on July 1, 2009
- Covers 1837 to the present
- Includes name, party, and dates
- Links to biographies on the web as found
- Extensive annotated bibliography of digital and traditional archival
material in the State of Michigan on minorities, urban problems, labor,
mental health issues, and poverty
- Sections on local records and institutions within the state divided
into five historical periods
- Written by Sally Haines Lawler of the UMich Social Work
Library
- Numerous on-line research studies on the social, economic, and health
conditions of Latinos in the United States
- Special focus on the Midwest, including data on migrant workers and
Latino history in Michigan
- Text of U.S. treaties with Indian tribes between 1778 and 1883
- Indexed by year, alphabetically by treaty name and tribe
- Search engine by keyword with a relevancy ranking for search
results
- List of historical associations and state/local archives by city
- Maintained by the Historical Society of Michigan
- Photographs, family papers, oral histories,
genealogical materials on Michigan history contributed by 52 member libraries
- Searchable via keyword, subject, institutional contributor
- Some 430 digitized Michigan county histories and atlases published before 1923
- Browsable and searchable
- Lists 3000 national and state historic sites
- Photo tour arranged by type of site (city halls, bridges,
lighthouses, etc.)
- Searchable data base not working on Feb. 21, 2000
- K-12 teaching materials on Michigan history
- Links to the State Archives, State Geologist, and Michigan Historical
Museum
- Map showing historical museums in Michigan
- Links to visitor information
- Compact history of the State of Michigan from territorial days to
present
- HTML chapters cover pre-Europeans to the New Millennium
- Chronology and bibliography
- Bimonthly magazine on Michigan History
- Full text is not on the web but the archives lists issue providing
county histories
- Printed copy available in Graduate Library (F 561 .M45)
- Holdings of state and local records
- Services provided
- Archival
Circulars provide a list of the state materials
available
- Michigan became a state on January
26, 1837
- Web page from Library of Congress provides brief 19th Century
history of the state and links to its collections of digitized books and
maps
Grace York, Coordinator, Documents Center
The University of Michigan Library
Graphics by Sherry Piontek and Barbara Perles
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/michhis.html
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Historical
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