• Michigan Adventure! Discover Our State Symbols!
The Yak shared his great pages about Michigan's state symbols with HAL! Learn about our state symbols in these pages from the Detroit Free Press.

• Kids' Stuff
Try these activities from the Michigan Historical Museum. There are things to make, poems to read, real historic documents and more.

• Michigan's Liberty Bell
In 1950 Michigan received a reproduction of the Liberty Bell. Read its story here. Visit the bell at the Michigan Library and Historical Center.

• ANSWER Library Catalog

• Braille and Talking Book Online Order Form

• Current Issues Bibliographies

• Essential Michigan History Books
Need to know more about Michigan? Find these at your library or book store.

• MeLCat
The statewide resource sharing program allowing you to search the catalogs of libraries across the state and place interlibrary loan requests to have materials delivered to your closest participating library.

• Michigan Authors and Illustrators
Search this database to find authors and illustrators born in Michigan, who live in Michigan or who have written books about or set in Michigan.

• A Historic Cannon Comes to Alpena
The story on how Alpena was honored to receive a cannon from the U.S.S. Maine--whose destruction fourteen years earlier had led to war between the United States and Spain--began in March 1912 when Congressman George A. Loud of Michigan forwarded to the Navy Department a series of resolutions from Alpena requesting "the loan of a piece of naval ordnance of historical interest."

• What happened on this date in Michigan history?
Find out what happened on this date in the state's history at Michigan History Magazine.

• July 30, 1863—Henry Ford is born.
Born on a farm in Dearborn, Henry Ford disliked farm work and moved as a teenager to Detroit, where he held an assortment of jobs. He also tinkered with engines. In July 1896, Ford introduced his horseless carriage to the world. Within a decade Ford's Model T was quickly becoming the automobile that—as the Ford Motor Company boasts—put America on wheels.

• Michigan History magazine introduces unusual art form
A day's drive through southeastern Michigan's scenic Irish Hills can provide an exciting introduction to an unusual art form called Trabajo Rustico. Performed in the 1930s by Mexican traveling artists, Trabajo Rustico shares roots with the better-known Diego Rivera murals at the Detroit Institute of Art and the New Deal murals in Michigan's public buildings.

• Michigan History for Kids Magazine Looks at Rock and Roll in Michigan
Winner of Parents' Choice Awards for the past three years, Michigan History for Kids has been praised by parents, teachers and children. This issue looks at Michigan's contribution to rock and roll.