Jeff Montgomery was a born activist who played an important role in saving Orchestra Hall. When a hate crime...

Between 1955 and 1974, a nuclear war with the Soviet Union seemed like a possibility. We armed ourselves by...

Hank Greenberg, who entered the Hall of Fame as one of the greatest hitters in the game’s history, was...

GM spied on a gadfly and got caught. It was the ’60s, and it changed the auto industry forever....

Barely two months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order #9066. Some 120,000 Japanese...

James Vernor invented his ginger ale in downtown Detroit just after the Civil War. More than 15 decades later,...

For decades, segregation forced African-Americans migrating from the South to Detroit into one neighborhood: “Black “Bottom,” an area just...

Waiter, is there a ghost in my soup? The Whitney, one of Detroit’s great restaurants, began life as a...

An underwater tale of two cities. With the auto industry booming and with Detroit’s population surging in the 1920s,...

Black Detroiters were invisible on local TV then . . . ‘The Scene’ changed it all    The low-budget,...

With a terrible virus sweeping the nation, the word “vaccine” dominated headlines for months. Not COVID-19, but polio. Not...

Some look at Detroit today and wonder how the abandoned buildings got here. What happened between The Arsenal of...

Burlesque legend Lottie Graves-Claiborne wowed ’em on several continents, sharing the stage with numerous worldwide stars. But throughout her...

A historic cafe has morphed its way through generations of change, and still … still … there is the...

In 1952, famed historian David Maraniss’s father, Elliott Maraniss, was fired by the Detroit Times, the city’s Hearst daily...