Michigan history

The Michigan Capitol rotunda is undergoing a major renovation. Michigan Public's Morning Edition team got a special tour of the job site on a 160-foot scaffold.

Through candid dialogue between academics and artists, a new video series examines the Underground Railroad’s history and its reverberating impact.

Democrats aim to get Michigan's environmental agency more power over water quality issues, AI helps to uncover Great Lakes history, and reframing the Israel and Gaza conflict.

The Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission ordered to make quick changes, the Arab American experience though Dearborn voices, a Flint inventor who gave us two-sided toast and the electric oven, and delivering doughnuts on the Great Lakes.

A look at the UAW's history of solidarity, a dementia friendly movie screening, the 145th anniversary of Michigan’s first phone book and why they are important, and the launch of our very own pizza podcast — Dough Dynasty.

Oxford School shooter could serve life without parole, the Moth story slam does porch pop-ups, a great Detroit Tiger player with a bad legacy, sheep helping solar fields and a conversation with a Southwest Detroit muralist.

We heard about the controversy over the use of an AI chatbot at an eating disorders hotline. And, we learned about why Detroit’s largest provider of affordable housing is struggling with major maintenance issues. Plus, a showdown between Ohio and Michigan over tourism and other population draws.

By the mid 20th century, there was an unexpected burgeoning industry: women’s undergarments manufacturing. This is the story of the H.W. Gossard Company and the Gossard Girls.

Hear about how Michigan police can take your car even if you are not charged with a crime. Michigan has a long history of opposing mass transit…but how far back does it go? How one man dug up the artifacts of indigenous people around the globe and kept them for himself. And what work is being done to return those artifacts.

Mayor Coleman A. Young will soon be the first Black man represented (in statue form, of course) at the Capitol's National Statuary Hall. Detroit city historian Jamon Jordan took us on a deep dive into Young's life, work, and political legacy.