Metro History

Underground Railroad in Detroit: Important people, sites you might not know

February 22, 2021

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Art Cervi, longtime Bozo the Clown on Detroit TV, dies at 86

February 19, 2021

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Motown hits: The 50 best and essential songs from the Detroit era

February 10, 2021

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12 Michigan properties added to National Register of Historic Places

January 25, 2021

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How Detroit’s borders were drawn — and why it matters

January 20, 2021

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Photos: Martin Luther King Jr. at Detroit’s Freedom March in 1963

January 18, 2021

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Tigers’ Old English D logo backstory 

January 15, 2021

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The Blizzard Of 1886 Was Worst In The History Of Detroit

January 11, 2021

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Detroit’s historic Blue Bird Inn won’t be demolished after all 

January 8, 2021

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Historic Detroit marketplace to find third home at Greenfield Village

December 21, 2020

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Monroe lighthouse keeper was colorful character 

November 25, 2020

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Smokey Robinson on Marvin Gaye, ‘My Girl’ and new Audible memoir

November 18, 2020

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Detroit eyes Fort Wayne for transformation with restrictions lifted 

November 16, 2020

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A church, museum and lighthouse remember the Edmund Fitzgerald

November 13, 2020

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Take a virtual tour of Albert Kahn’s Detroit

October 29, 2020

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10 cool facts about Detroit’s legendary J.L. Hudson’s store

October 27, 2020

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The Motor City’s Techno Legacy Arrives at the Detroit Historical Museum 

October 12, 2020

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Heroic Michigan priest begins road to canonization

September 24, 2020

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‘Black Bottom Saints’ Review: Alice Randall’s Sparkling History Of Black Detroit

August 21, 2020

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Old home of Ulysses S. Grant relocated to Detroit’s Eastern Market

August 20, 2020

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