ann arbor michigan

A study of Henry Ford and rural America in the 1920s

"I found it filled with many interesting things . . . ." ---Arthur Miller "For those of us who have admiration and affection for the university and ...

The natural areas along the Huron River Corridor in Ann Arbor offer the interested explorer an opportunity to see some of nature's finest works. Among the thirteen ...

A vivid life of Charlemagne, written ca A.D. 830 by a member of his court

Epic poems by one who has been called the first Greek philosopher and theologian

A scathing indictment of the emperor Justinian and his 6th-century Byzantine court by the greatest historian of the period

The holy mission of the Maid of Orleans is recreated in this, one of the greatest of the books on Joan. Jules Michelet captures the hardships of battle, the glory ...

Portrays France and Britain at the beginning of the Dark Ages

The Japanese Army's invasion of China in 1937 was the first step toward a hemispheric war that would last until the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in ...

The most comprehensive contemporaneous record of the rise and fall of the Carolingian Empire

The stories of the Huron, Miami, Ottawa, Potawatomi, and Chippewa tribes in the years before contact with European settlers

In his groundbreaking memoir about China's democracy movement and the massacre at Tiananmen Square in June 1989, student leader Shen Tong offers us a rare look at a ...

Interprets thirteenth-century crusades in terms of the development of Europe, especially France

Illuminates life in the feudal society of colonial Mexico

A vivid portrait of political and cultural life in the 10th century

In an era when the sounds of monasticism's interior life speak to a new generation, Eleanor Shipley Duckett offers an illuminated description of its development ...

Recreates the 9th-century world of Charlemagne through portraits of outstanding figures of the age

"A must buy for anyone interested in the Great Lakes." ---Frederick Stonehouse, maritime historian In 1892, the Ann Arbor Car Ferries shook the ...

A controversial Marxist, Luxemburg here opposes the Bolsheviks' quest for power

Set against the backdrop of the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in 1941, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's brilliant novel weaves myth and legend together with the ...