No matter what the content area, reading nonfiction can
bring history to life thru great narration and descriptive writing. These
titles are a great historical read.
How the Post Office Created
America, a History by Winifred Gallaher
How the post Office Created America tells the
story of the surprising role of the post office in the nation’s political,
social, economic and physical development. For the longest time it the post office was the U.S. government’s
largest and most important endeavor and was established in 1775 before the
signing of the Declaration of Independence.
The authors takes you on a journey, as the post office was the catalyst
of the industrial economy (transportation grid, customer service cultured and
the political party system. Gallagher argues that Americans should understand
what the post office has accomplished since 1775 and what it can contribute to
a 21st century.
Rites of Conquest: The History and Culture of Michigan’s Native
Americans by Charles E. Cleland
Rites of Conquest narrates the struggle of
Michigan Native Peoples; Ojibwa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi. For many thousands of
years before the arrival of Europeans, Michigan’s native peoples, the Anishnabeg
thrived in the forests and along the shores of the Great Lakes, their cultures
in delicate social balance and in economic harmony with the natural order. The French quest for furs, the colonial
aggression of the British, and the invasion of native homelands by American
settlers is the backdrop for its fascinating saga of their resistance and
accommodation to the new social order. Michigan
Native American’s look to their values and traditions that set them apart as
the most enduring peoples of the Great Lakes region.
Wicked Takes the Witness Stand: A tale of
murder and twisted deceit in Northern Michigan by Mardi Link
The author of When Evil Came to Good
Hart and Isadore’s Secret, has written a third book of Michigan true crime.
Wicked Takes the Witness stand provides a narrative on an unsolved mysterious
case that sucked the state police and local officials into a morass of perjury
and cover-up, which led to the separate condition and imprisonment of five
innocent men.
--Stanley Peterson, Maintenance Services Coordinator
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