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Featured
in the Detroit at 300 special issue
From "The Straits" to the
"Motor City"
As Detroit and Detroiters celebrate the
city's three hundredth birthday, it will be an occasion to look back on the
rich history of one of the nation's oldest and greatest cities. Philip P.
Mason Read this article
online. (PDF file)
Turning Points in Detroit History
Over the past three hundred years, Detroit
has experienced many turning points. We highlight the most significant.
Read this article online. (PDF file)
Ste. Anne de Detroit
Two days after Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac
established Fort Pontchartrain in July 1701, the founder of Detroit began
work on a chapel named after the patron saint of French pioneers in the New
World. Today, Ste. Anne is the second oldest continuously operating parish
in the United States. The present church is an architectural gem both inside
and out. Mary A. Dempsey
Roads, Roots & Ribbon Farms
Detroit's tricentennial inspired one writer
to investigate her French roots. What she found surprised her. Sheryl
James
Will the Real Monsieur Cadillac Please Stand
Up
There are more than a few skeletons in the
closet of Detroit's founder. Bill McGraw
British Detroit
The British spent thirty-six years in
Detroit. Their rule began with one of America's greatest Indian uprisings,
but ended quietly, years after the American Revolution. David Lee Poremba
The Best 5¢ Cigar Town
Commercial cigar making began in Detroit
years before the Civil War. By the late nineteenth century, tobacco was the
city's leading industry. Today, few traces remain of an industry that earned
Detroit the nickname "Tampa of the North." Michael Boettcher
From Visionaries to Bean Counters
The Chrysler Corporation is arguably the
most "Detroit" of the Big Three car companies. For better—and
often worse—each of Chrysler's leaders brought major changes in the
company's products, policies and focus. Their vision, or lack of it,
accounts for most of Chrysler's turbulent past. Charles K. Hyde
Spirit of 1937
Organized labor began 1937 with high hopes,
but few victories. By the end of the year, thanks to the sit-down strike, it
was firmly entrenched in Detroit and a powerful force in city politics and
many business operations. Mike Smith
Style to Spare
Called "the high priest of soul
preaching," the Reverend Clarence L. Franklin was a pioneer preacher, a
successful recording artist, a dedicated civil rights leader and a
flamboyant performer who left his mark on Detroit and the nation. Bill
McGraw
The Man Between the Posts
Goalie Terry Sawchuk "simply hated to
give up goals." The Manitoba native, who starred with the Detroit Red
Wings in the 1950s, played his position with skill and reckless abandon that
left him the best goalie in the history of the National Hockey League. John
U. Bacon
Architect of Detroit
The father of modern industrial
architecture, Albert Kahn designed and defined the city that boomed as the
automobile industry turned Detroit into the Motor City.
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