Michigan State University Press

For several years, the armies of Napoleon III deployed some 450 Muslim Sudanese slave soldiers in Veracruz, the port of Mexico City. As in the other case of Western hemisphere military slavery (the...

States are thought only to exercise power over the land of the living. Benjamin Ginsberg argues otherwise, exploring the state's reach into the realm of the Grim Reaper, bureaucratizing death to...

In an age when many find themselves disconnected from the natural world, celebrated poet Todd Davis offers the possibilities of reconnection. In thirty new poems, and with selections from his...

In Glorying in Tribulation, Stetson presents a new dimension of Sojourner Truth's character. Much of the information regarding this oft-quoted African American woman is either the stuff of legend or...

Like many American urban waterways, Ken-O-Sha has been in decline for nearly 200 years. Once life-supporting, the area now known as Plaster Creek is life-threatening. In this book scholars and...

Richard Gebhart traces the Atlantic-bound voyages of Great Lakes ships, recovering the voices of long-ago ship captains, along with their cargo manifests and itineraries. Drawing on research in old...

Weaving together memories from her life on the lakes with nearly fifty years of environmental policy advocacy work, Elder provides an insider's perspective into the quest to protect the Great Lakes...