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Eight Steamboats—Sailing Through the Sixties Apr 19, 2024
During the late 1960s Patrick Livingston worked as a crew member aboard Great Lakes passenger ships and freighters. His memoir of those years resulted in the Michigan Library Notable Book—"Eight Steamboats—Sailing Through the Sixties." View More
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Michigan During the Great Depression Apr 19, 2024
Learn how the problems of the Great Depression still affect us 90 years later. View More
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Michigan Men in the Civil War Apr 20, 2024
This presentation speaks of Michigan’s Civil War soldiers and their experiences and views as citizen soldiers who served in the Union Army of the Potomac from 1861–1865. View More
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Striking at the Root of the Rebellion: Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation & the Cause of Freedom Apr 24, 2024
President Abraham Lincoln had used his war-powers to sign the Emancipation Proclamation; America's divisive "peculiar institution" was another step closer to its ultimate demise. View More