Michigan

Roger L. Rosentreter is Visiting Professor in the Department of History at Michigan State University, where he specializes in the history of the U.S. Civil War. He is the former editor of Michigan History magazine and author of Seeking Lincoln in Michigan.

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Praise / Awards

• “Though Michigan is a large and complex state, it has long lacked an interesting and readable one volume history. Now Roger Rosentreter, a longtime history professor at Michigan State University, has remedied that absence with his Michigan: A History of Explorers, Entrepreneurs, and Everyday People (University of Michigan Press...). Though perhaps designed as a textbook, [this book] is readable and richly illustrated enough to be of general interest, and short enough—381 pages—not to be intimidating. It is the only state history that includes Michigan’s rich cultural heritage from the time of the French explorers who scrambled up the Detroit riverbank in 1701 up to the present.”
  —Jack Lessenberry, Michigan Radio and the Toledo Blade
  
  

   
  
  
• "In this volume, Roger Rosentreter gives readers the benefit of his over 30 years living with Michigan's history—as editor of Michigan History magazine, author of several publications, and professor of history at Michigan State University. Michigan, A History of Explorers, Entrepreneurs, and Everyday People is a valuable contribution, underscoring the important point that the history of a state is not by definition provincial; it can also inform our understanding of the history of the nation... This well-written account will have a wide audience, from casual readers to the scholar."
  --Michigan Historical Review

• Chapter 1: First Residents