Detroit history

1968 was a very tense and pivotal year in Detroit's history. The city was putting itself back together again after the riots in July of '67.That was the…

The Detroit Public Library turns 150 years old this week and will be celebrating Wednesday with an event that includes architectural tours of the historic…

The first federally-funded housing projects for African-American families were built in Detroit in the 1930s. They were the Brewster-Douglass Housing…

There's a lot of attention and talk directed at start-ups about attracting new business to Michigan.But writer Ilene Wolff pays tribute to some venerable…

With the North American International Auto Show under way in Detroit, we thought we'd dig up some archival photos of what the auto show used to look like…

Got milk? Well, back in the day, milk trucks drove door-to-door delivering the all important staple to your home.Twin Pines, Sealtest, Borden’s, Washtenaw…

We recently stumbled across some cool, old photographs of life at one of the most well-known psychiatric hospitals in Michigan: Eloise.Celebrating the…

"Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus." "We Hope for Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes."Fr. Gabriel Richard wrote that after a tremendous fire…

The Nain Rouge. Detroit's little red hobgoblin. The harbinger of doom and disaster. The legend of the Nain Rouge goes back to the very earliest days of…

There are two dirty little secrets about journalism most people don’t realize. One is that we assume that the good is normal. If you work hard, are not…