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Notable People
- 'I Think Mr. Ford is Leaving Us'
- 'Nancy Brown' provided a shoulder for News readers to lean on
- Albert Kahn, the architect of the auto industrialists
- Carl Milles, Cranbrook's favorite sculptor
- Competition was a way of life for Detroit speed skater
- Detroit's 59ers -- Alaska or bust!
- Detroit's flamboyant Prophet Jones
- Dr. Ralph Bunche -- from Detroit to the world stage
- Father Charles E. Coughlin, The Radio Priest
- Father Gabriel Richard: Detroit's pioneer priest
- Father Solanus Casey and his 'favors'
- Harley Earl, father of the 'dream' car
- Harry Houdini: Master of illusion and escape
- Henry Ford and Thomas Edison -- a friendship of giants
- Henry Leland, forgotten giant of the auto industry
- How Billy Sunday battled demon rum in Detroit
- How Detroit's 211th birthday gala ended with city's aldermen in jail
- How Harry Blackstone brought magic to Michigan
- Irene McCabe and her battle against busing
- Leonard B. Smith and the Detroit Concert Band
- Lucky Lindy and his ties to Detroit
- Marshall Fredericks -- the Spirit of Detroit
- Michigan's greatest treasure -- its people
- Minoru Yamasaki, world-class architect
- Newsstand owner was a street-corner witness to history
- Orville Hubbard -- the ghost who still haunts Dearborn
- Richard Frankensteen, the UAW's 'other guy'
- The adventures of the Human Fly
- The Bay City boy who became a major shipbuilder
- The day Jimmy Hoffa didn't come home
- The Detroit News in Antarctica
- The Execution of Pvt. Eddie Slovik
- The man who fought McCarthy's red smear
- The mystery of Pere Marquette's final resting place
- The rise and fall of John DeLorean, dashing, maverick automaker
- The royals in Detroit
- The Shoemaker Who Looked Like a King
- The Wolverines' legendary Tom Harmon
- The year Detroit flew high with 'The Bird'
- Ty Tyson, the world's first sports broadcaster
- When Denny McLain stood baseball on its ear
- When the pope visited Detroit
- William A. Kuenzel, Detroit News Photographer
Business
- Auto plant vs. neighborhood: The Poletown battle
- Born in fire -- the curved-dash Olds
- Detroit's first commercial airplane builder
- Ford's Rouge reborn: Tours take MTV approach to industry
- Grinnell's pianos and the world's largest mass piano concerts
- Henry Ford educated generations of tradesmen
- How J.L. Hudson changed the way we shop
- How labor won its day
- How the bicycle put Detroit on wheels
- How this newspaper proved it was more than just a fish wrapper
- Mr. Ford, blacks and the UAW
- Once teeming with auto plants, Detroit now home to only a few nameplates
- Rouge naval school trained WWII sailors in skilled trades
- Snack foods and pop, Detroit style
- Snap, Crackle and Profit -- the story behind a cereal empire
- The auto industry's family trees
- The building of the Ambassador Bridge
- The Detroit Auto Show: from beer gardens to tabernacles to Cobo Center
- The Detroit River ferryboats
- The free-wheeling gambler who created conservative General Motors
- The ghostly salt city beneath Detroit
- The historic 1936-37 Flint auto plant strikes
- The man who could out-lumber Paul Bunyan
- The Rouge plant -- the art of industry
- The voyage of the stalwart little ship 'Detroit'
- Those daring Detroit Newsmen in their flying machines
- Up in smoke: Cigar making in Detroit
- When Michigan rode the rails
Government
- Detroit's magnificent old City Hall
- How Detroit police reinvented the wheel
- How one man's bad luck paved way for creation of Cranbrook
- James E. Scripps and Detroit's art museum
- Selfridge Field and the beginnings of air power
- The Civilian Conservation Corps
- The Detroit Fire Department's 130 years of flames and heroics
- The Dossin Great Lakes Museum
Life in Michigan
- Clang, clang, clang went the trolley
- Detroit is fertile ground for art
- Detroit's amusement parks
- Detroit's giant stove and tire
- Detroit's Infamous Purple Gang
- Detroit's killer heat wave of 1936
- Detroit's Polar Bears and their confusing war
- Detroit's Thanksgiving Day Parade
- Detroit's worst snowstorms
- Detroiters and their beers
- How Arts and Crafts flourished in industrial Detroit
- How Detroit got its first black hospital
- How Detroit lost its stately elms
- How Prohibition made Detroit a bootlegger's dream town
- How the egg came to symbolize Easter
- How the Great Depression changed Detroit
- Jessie DeBoth and The Detroit News cooking school
- Let's get ready to rumble: Cruising in the Motor City
- Michigan -- the home of Noah's Ark?
- Michigan's mysterious Indian mounds
- Of soda fountains and ice cream parlors
- Once bustling iron town now mines tourism
- Paradise Valley and Black Bottom
- Pewabic tile, Detroit's art treasure
- Put-in-Bay: Just cruising along on moonlight bay
- Sailing on Lake St. Clair's icy winter winds
- Some haunting tales from Detroit's past
- The All-American Soap Box Derby
- The crosstown mob wars of 1930-31
- The Detroit News Hiking Club
- The Detroit News Spelling Bee
- The Golden Age of the Motown Sound
- The Grand Army of the Republic
- The great Michigan UFO chase
- The King of Beaver Island
- The Michigan State Fair
- The origins of the Goodfellows: 'No kiddie without a Christmas'
- The Purple Gang's bloody legacy
- The Red Arrow Division: Fierce fighters of the first World War
- The stars who turned Detroiters into couch potatoes
- The Sunday drive
- The toy train that rules Christmas
- The war between Michigan and Ohio
- When bomb shelters were all the rage
- When Detroit danced to the big bands
- When the drive-in theater was king
- Where Detroit's elite met to eat
Locations
- Battle of the Garden Court
- Belle Isle's retired ships
- Bob-Lo, island of the white wood
- Book sheds light on where a host of former Detroiters once lived
- Campus Martius -- city's heart may beat again
- Detroit's fabulous Michigan Theater
- Detroit's Fort Wayne under siege
- Detroit's fountain of mirth
- Detroit's historic Fox Theatre
- Detroit's historic Indian Village
- Detroit's street names honor early leaders
- Detroit's Water Works Park a gateway to the past
- Dodge yacht to sail in splendor again
- Eloise -- the poorhouse that became an asylum
- Frankenmuth -- the city of Chicken and Christmas
- Guardian Building has long been the crown jewel in Detroit skyline
- How the Detroit River shaped lives and history
- How the Detroit Zoo's first day was almost its last
- How the Renaissance Center changed the landscape of Detroit
- Lavish Grayhaven community was crippled by Great Depression
- Mackinac Island's Grand Hotel is history's front porch
- Mrs. Dodge and the regal Rose Terrace
- Mt. Clemens, 'Bath City of America'
- Sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll and Plum Street
- Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! At Detroit Dragway!
- Tales from the Crypt: The Wayne County Morgue
- Tales from the crypts: Elmwood Cemetery stories
- The breathtaking Mackinac Bridge
- The building of the Detroit-Windsor tunnel
- The campaign to preserve Isle Royale
- The day the bridge to Belle Isle burned down
- The Detroit Boat Club
- The elegant lives of a Van Dyke mansion
- The luxury resort that discrimination built
- The monuments of Detroit
- The most beautiful building in the world
- The orchids that saved the Belle Isle Conservatory
- When flames consumed a Christmas fantasy
- Willow Run and the Arsenal of Democracy
- Woodward Avenue, Detroit's grand old 'Main Street'
Sports
- 100 years of baseball at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull
- Al Kaline -- the Detroit Tigers' 'Mr. Perfection'
- Bobby Layne and the Lions' glory days
- Detroit's legends of bowling
- Detroit, the City of Champions
- Ernie Harwell and Tiger Stadium: Two old friends
- Flying high with model planes
- Gar Wood, speedboat king
- He made golf his life, Michigan his home
- Hughie Jennings: The Tigers' "Eee-Yah" man
- Michigan Athletes have made Olympic history
- Michigan's long history of ski jumping
- Schoolboy Rowe, the Tigers' Southern gentleman
- The hockey game that broke out during a riot
- The Brown Bomber -- The man behind The Fist
- The day the Tigers finally integrated
- The Detroit Lions' glory days
- The glorious Wings of old
- The golden days of Golden Gloves
- The Port Huron to Mackinac race
- The Tigers' 'Hammerin' Hank' Greenberg
- The year Mickey Lolich won the World Series
- Those magnificent men in red
- Ty Cobb, the greatest Tiger of them all
- When Detroit rode the polo ponies
Events
- 'I have to die a man or live a coward' -- the saga of Dr. Ossian Sweet
- Chief Pontiac's siege of Detroit
- Conquering the dreaded crippler, polio
- Detroit's expedition to the Arctic
- Fox theater's rebirth ushered in city's renewal
- Horror in a Port Huron water intake tunnel
- Party town: Detroit celebrates its past
- The 1943 Detroit race riots
- The Battle of the Overpass
- The bloody Fourth that ended do-it-yourself fireworks in Detroit
- The fateful voyage of the Edmund Fitzgerald
- The first Armistice Day: When the doughboys came marching home
- The Great Detroit News Payroll Robbery
- The great escape at Ironwood
- The murder that brought down the Black Legion
- The night 12 ships vanished on the Great Lakes
- The night the Montrose sank in the Detroit River
- The race between two centuries
- The SS Tashmoo and her date with doom
- The Water Wonderland loves a good boat show
- The year the Shriners partied in Detroit
- When Hollywood came to the UP
- When Memorial Day was more than just a 3-day weekend
- When the flu ravaged the world
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