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The Toledo War (aka the Ohio-Michigan War)

Money Shot by by allotta (Stevens T. Mason Statue, Capitol Park, Detroit) Most wars leave people injured, dead, and leave damage in their wake. The Toledo War was an exception. It was not an official war, no one died, and there was little…
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Sitting Down to Take a Stand

On the night of December 30, 1936, workers at one of the General Motors automobile assembly plants in Flint, Michigan, locked the doors from the inside and guarded the windows. The Flint Sit-Down Strike had begun. For the next forty-four…
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Highway Lighthouses

We are all acquainted with the yellow warning signs along Michigan's roads alerting us to dangerous intersections, sharp curves, steep grades and other driving hazards. But few people are familiar with the devices that preceded these modern…
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Pontiac's Rebellion

On the morning of May 7, 1763, fifty Indian warriors approached Fort Detroit. Their leader, a charismatic Odawa chief named Pontiac, had requested a meeting with Major Henry Gladwin, the fort's British commandant. Pontiac carried a wampum…