History Hounds® Lecture Series

Tue, Mar 28 2023, 12 - 1pm

Virtual

During both World Wars, German Americans experienced discrimination nationwide. In Michigan, German-language books burned, German names on street signs changed, and some German Americans were violently assaulted. The German Americans residing in Frankenmuth, however, were able to escape much of that discrimination—retaining their German identity and celebrating it in the postwar period.

Wed, Apr 5 2023, 7 - 8pm

Virtual

Isle Royale National Park—with its wolves, moose, and lush northern landscape—is an ideal laboratory for wildlife biologists. For more than half a century, it has been the site of a comprehensive study on wolves—the world’s longest-running study on any wild animal. Join author and wildlife biologist Rolf Olin Peterson to hear a firsthand account of the relationships, natures, and crises of the island’s wolf population.

Tue, Apr 11 2023, 12 - 1pm

Virtual

Ford Airport operated in Dearborn from 1924 to 1947 and has been called “the first modern airport in the United States.” Indeed, the airport pioneered the use of paved runways, radio guidance, airmail, passenger airline schedules, and a hotel airport. Home to the factory that made the iconic Ford Tri-Motor airplanes, Ford Airport also had the world’s only privately owned mooring mast, built to dock the huge dirigibles of the early twentieth century.

Wed, Apr 19 2023, 7 - 8pm

Virtual

James F. Joy of Detroit covered more than 715,000 square miles of the Midwest with railroads—several lines of which are still in use today. But “The Midwest Railroad King” did not stop there; Joy also helped build the Soo Locks, served as a University of Michigan regent, cofounded the Detroit College of Medicine, and won a pivotal court case with the help of Abraham Lincoln. Join us to learn about this towering figure in Michigan history.