Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Independent Man: The Life of Senator James Couzens | 1958 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 2 | The Detroit Riot of 1967 | 1969 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 3 | Detroit: City of Race and Class Violence | 1972 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 4 | Waiting for the Morning Train | 1972 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 5 | Call It North Country | 1986 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 6 | Danny and the Boys: Being Some Legends of Hungry Hollow | 1987 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 7 | Michigan Voices: Our State’s History in the Words of the People Who Lived It | 1987 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 8 | Seasons of Grace: A History of the Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit | 1990 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 9 | Cobb Would Have Caught It: The Golden Age of Baseball in Detroit | 1991 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 10 | John Jacob Astor: Business and Finance in the Early Republic | 1991 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 11 | Queen of the Lakes | 1994 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 12 | Turkey Stearnes and the Detroit Stars: The Negro Leagues in Detroit, 1919-1933 | 1994 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 13 | The Northern Lights: Lighthouses of the Upper Great Lakes | 1994 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 14 | Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit | 1997 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 15 | The Long Winter Ends | 1998 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 16 | All-American Anarchist: Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement | 1998 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 17 | Toast of the Town: The Life and Times of Sunnie Wilson | 1998 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 18 | Father Abraham’s Children: Michigan Episodes in the Civil War | 1998 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 19 | Huron: The Seasons of a Great Lake | 1999 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 20 | A Sailor’s Logbook: A Season Aboard Great Lakes Freighters | 1999 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 21 | “Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights”: Michigan, 1948-1968 | 2000 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 22 | Graveyard of the Lakes | 2000 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 23 | Great Lakes Journey: A New Look at America’s Freshwater Coast | 2000 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 24 | History of the Finns in Michigan | 2001 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 25 | Uppermost Canada: The Western District and the Detroit Frontier, 1800-1850 | 2002 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 26 | Windjammers: Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors | 2002 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 27 | Michigan’s Early Military Forces: A Roster and History of Troops Activated Prior to the American Civil War | 2003 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 28 | Riding the Roller Coaster: A History of the Chrysler Corporation | 2003 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 29 | The French Canadians of Michigan: Their Contribution to the Development of the Saginaw Valley and the Keweenaw Peninsula, 1840-1914 | 2003 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 30 | Beyond the Windswept Dunes: The Story of Maritime Michigan | 2003 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 31 | A Hanging in Detroit: Stephen Gifford Simmons and the Last Execution under Michigan Law | 2003 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 32 | Roy D. Chapin: The Man Behind the Hudson Motor Car Company | 2003 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 33 | Angels in the Architecture: A Photographic Elegy to an American Asylum | 2004 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 34 | Pulling Down the Barn: Memories of a Rural Childhood | 2004 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 35 | To Keep the South Manitou Light | 2004 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 36 | “I Hope to Do My Country Service” : The Civil War Letters of John Bennitt, M.D., Surgeon, 19th Michigan Infantry | 2005 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 37 | The Dodge Brothers: The Men, the Motor Cars, and the Legacy | 2005 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 38 | Songquest: The Journals of Great Lakes Folklorist Ivan H. Walton | 2005 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 39 | Under Michigan: The Story of Michigan’s Rocks and Fossils | 2005 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 40 | My Forty Years With Ford | 2006 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 41 | House of Fields: Memories of a Rural Education | 2006 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 42 | A Pocketful of Passage | 2007 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 43 | Detroit on Stage: The Players Club, 1910-2005 | 2007 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 44 | A Badger Boy in Blue: The Letters of Chauncey H. Cooke | 2007 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 45 | Life with Mae: A Detroit Family Memoir | 2007 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 46 | When You Come Home: A Wartime Courtship in Letters 1941-45 | 2007 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 47 | Who’s Jim Hines? | 2008 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 48 | Storied Independent Automakers: Nash, Hudson, and American Motors | 2009 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 49 | Maxwell Motor and the Making of the Chrysler Corporation | 2009 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 50 | The Color of Law: Ernie Goodman, Detroit, and the Struggle for Labor and Civil Rights | 2010 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 51 | Monopoly on Wheels: Henry Ford and the Selden Automobile Patent | 2011 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 52 | Iron Will: Cleveland-Cliffs and the Mining of Iron Ore, 1847-2006 | 2011 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 53 | The Fall and Recapture of Detroit in the War of 1812: In Defense of William Hull | 2011 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 54 | Lake Superior Profiles : People on the Big Lake | 2012 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 55 | The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan: People, Law, and Politics | 2012 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 56 | Among the Enemy: A Michigan Soldier’s Civil War Journal | 2013 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 57 | The Political Activities of Detroit Clubwomen in the 1920s: A Challenge and a Promise | 2013 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 58 | The Colored Car | 2013 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 59 | Arsenal of Democracy: The American Automobile Industry in World War II | 2013 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 60 | “Old Slow Town”: Detroit during the Civil War | 2013 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 61 | Great Girls in Michigan History | 2015 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 62 | Race, Religion, and the Pulpit: Rev. Robert L. Bradby and the Making of Urban Detroit | 2015 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 63 | Young Henry Ford: A Picture History of the First Forty Years | 2015 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 64 | Justus S. Stearns: Michigan Pine King and Kentucky Coal Baron, 1845-1933 | 2015 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 65 | A Beaver Tale: The Castors of Conners Creek | 2016 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 66 | Lake Invaders: Invasive Species and the Battle for the Future of the Great Lakes | 2016 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 67 | Designing Detroit: Wirt Rowland and the Rise of Modern American Architecture | 2017 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 68 | To the Copper Country: Mihaela’s Journey | 2017 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 69 | Roads to Prosperity: Economic Development Lessons from Midsize Canadian Cities | 2017 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 70 | Survival and Regeneration: Detroit’s American Indian Community | 2017 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 71 | Whaleback Ships and the American Steel Barge Company | 2018 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 72 | Bold Boys in Michigan History | 2018 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 73 | John E. Fetzer and the Quest for the New Age | 2018 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 74 | Rosie, A Detroit Herstory | 2018 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 75 | Greening the Black Urban Regime: The Culture and Commerce of Sustainability in Detroit | 2020 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 76 | What the Chickadee Knows | 2020 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 77 | A Lincoln Legacy: The History of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan | 2020 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
| 78 | I Hope This Reaches You: An American Soldier’s Account of World War I | 2020 | Bruce Catton | Buy |
This collection brings together dozens of books about the Great Lakes region, particularly Michigan. Subjects range from the Detroit auto industry and labor history to Great Lakes shipping, Civil War letters, and the natural history of the lakes themselves.
Bruce Catton’s own Michigan-focused works appear alongside those of many other regional historians. The series covers everything from lighthouses and lake freighters to racial conflict in Detroit and the fur trade era. It is a comprehensive library of Great Lakes regional history.