Wayne Press: 446 books
Beyond the Windswept Dunes
The Story of Maritime Michigan
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
Beyond the Windswept Dunes takes the reader into a world of maritime adventure as it was experienced by the sailors, passengers, rescue workers, shipping magnates, industrialists, and many other people whose livelihoods revolved around Michigan’s port city of Muskegon. At one time the leading edge...
by Cindy Hunter Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Harborless, a collection of poems informed by Great Lakes shipwrecks, is part history and part reinvention. The poems explore tragic wrecks in rivers and lakes, finding and forming artistic meaning from destruction and death. Each poem begins in a real, historical moment that Cindy Hunter Morgan transforms...
Untold Tales, Unsung Heroes
An Oral History of Detroit's African American Community, 1918-1967
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1993
More than one hundred individuals who lived in Detroit at some time during the period from 1918 to 1967 share stories about everyday life.
John Jacob Astor
Business and Finance in the Early Republic
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
John Jacob Astor was the best-known and most important American businessman for more than a half-century. His career encompassed the country's formative economic years from the precarious days following the American Revolution to the emergence of an urban-centered manufacturing economy in the late...
Father Abraham's Children
Michigan Episodes in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
The Civil War was the largest and bloodiest conflict ever waged upon American soil, and while no fighting took place in Michigan, both the hardship of the war effort and the heroism of Michigan men at war touched residents deeply. In Father Abraham’s Children: Michigan Episodes in the Civil War, Frank...
by Charles E. Sorensen, Samuel T. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2006
An unflinching eyewitness account of the Ford story as told by one of Henry Ford’s closest associates.
Detroit on Stage
The Players Club, 1910-2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Founded in 1910, Detroit’s Players Club is an all-male club devoted to the production of theater by members for other members’ enjoyment. Called simply "The Players," members of the club design, direct, and act in the shows, including playing the female roles. In Detroit on Stage, Marijean...
by Mark J. P. Wolf
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Contributors examine the early days of video game history before the industry crash of 1983 that ended the medium’s golden age.
by Sheldon Hall
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Considers the history of the American blockbuster—the large-scale, high-cost film—as it evolved from the 1890s to today.
Monopoly on Wheels
Henry Ford and the Selden Automobile Patent
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Examines the eight-year legal fight to overturn the Selden automobile patent in the early days of the American auto industry.
Storied Independent Automakers
Nash, Hudson, and American Motors
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
With roots extending back to the first decade of the twentieth century, Nash Motor Company and the Hudson Motor Car Company managed to compete and even prosper as independent producers until they merged in 1954 to form the American Motors Company, which itself remained independent until it was bought...
Buffoon Men
Classic Hollywood Comedians and Queered Masculinity
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Film scholars and fans have used distinctive terms to describe the Classic Hollywood comedian: He is a "trickster," a "rebel," or a "buffoon." Yet the performer is almost always described as a "he." In Buffoon Men: Classic Hollywood Comedians and Queered Masculinity, Scott Balcerzak reads the performances...
Dear Chester, Dear John
Letters between Chester Himes and John A. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008
Chester Himes and John A. Williams met in 1961, as Himes was on the cusp of transcontinental celebrity and Williams, sixteen years his junior, was just beginning his writing career. Both men would go on to receive international acclaim for their work, including Himes’s Harlem detective novels featuring...
Tracking King Kong
A Hollywood Icon in World Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2009
Studies the cultural impact and audience reception of King Kong from the 1933 release of the original film until today.