• 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."

• Kids interact with a Mackinac Island exhibit

• Virtual Mackinac

• Future Historians Club, September 23, 2008

• A brief history of the Great Lake State that notes and describes 16 important dates in Michigan's history

• "This Takes Forever" - Exhibit Created by Students in the Future Historians Club - Opens May 13 at the Michigan Historical Museum

• Michigan History for Kids Magazine Looks at Rock and Roll in Michigan

• Children's Genealogical Research

• Kids at Fayette

• Do L.A.P.S. for Michigan

• Michigan in Brief

• Kids' Stuff

• Mackinac for Kids

• 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.

• Why do we put our pennies in a "piggy" bank?

• Why did people in Ireland believe there was gold at the end of the rainbow?

• How much money is a ton of money?

• Why did President Truman say "stops here?"

• Why do we tip the server in restaurants?