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Detroit (city, Michigan)

Boyle, Keven, and Victoria Getis. Muddy Boots and Ragged Aprons: Images of Working-Class Detroit, 1900-1930. Wayne State University Press, 1997. A photographic history from a working-class point of view.

Gavrilovich, Peter, and Bill McGraw. The Detroit Almanac: 300 Years of Life in the Motor City. Detroit Free Press, 2000. Entertaining history of the city.

Moon, Elaine Latzman. Untold Tales, Unsung Heroes: An Oral History of Detroit's African American Community, 1918-1967. Wayne State University Press, 1994. History incorporating 118 narratives.

Poremba, David Lee. Baseball in Detroit. Arcadia Tempus, 1998. For baseball fans, teenage through adult.

Smith, Suzanne E. Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit. Harvard University Press, 2000. History of the world-famous record label.

Young, Coleman A., and Lonnie Wheeler. Hard Stuff: The Autobiography of Coleman Young. Viking, 1994. The former mayor recounts his life.

Michigan

Clive, Alan. State of War: Michigan in World War II. University of Michigan Press, 1979. Economic and social history from 1941 to 1945, and contributions to war efforts.

Dunbar, Willis F., and George S. May. Michigan: A History of the Wolverine State. Eerdmans, 1995. Comprehensive reference; first published in 1965.

Eckert, Kathryn Bishop. Buildings of Michigan. Oxford University Press, 1993. Architectural history and guide with maps locating various sites.

Gray, Susan E. The Yankee West: Community Life on the Michigan Frontier. North Carolina University Press, 1996. Social history based on community records.

Jager, Ronald. Eighty Acres: Elegy for a Family Farm. Beacon, 1990, 1992. Personal memoir of 1940s family life in Michigan.

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