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All this week on Stateside, we’re looking at the history of the Brewster-Douglass Housing Projects in Detroit. If you’ve ever wondered about why they were…

All this week on Stateside, in our series Living with Death, we're talking to people about how the process of death and dying has changed. Today we talk…

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…

Matt Jones is a singer/songwriter from Ypsilanti. He’s also a big Civil War nerd. The Civil War inspired many of the songs on his latest album, called…

Think about the days when you had no Internet. No Food Network. No Epicurious. None of those websites where you can find any recipe in an instant.In those…

The Urban Relocation Project after World War II created one of the largest movements of Indians in American history. The idea was to lure Native Americans…

Harry Houdini died in Room 401 at Grace Hospital in Detroit 88 years ago this week.How did this world-famous magician and escape artist come to die in…

How far would you go to try to make some money?If you're Annie Edson Taylor of Bay City, you decide to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel!113 years ago…