Happy birthday, Michigan! The Mitten State was granted statehood on Jan. 26, 1837 — 188 years ago today. But many chapters of Michigan’s rich history predates statehood.

For thousands of years, the Great Lakes region was ruled only by Indigenous ... One lawmaker says yes Sent on behalf of Samuel de Champlain, Etienne Brule and his companion, Grenoble, first ...

Samuel de Champlain earned the undying enmity of the Iroquois Confederacy ... By that time the Beaver Wars had caused a massive shift of populations and other conflicts throughout the Great Lakes ...

Cities and towns from the Great Lakes region to parts of the Northeast are bracing for more snow and strong winds as the next in a series of fast-moving clipper systems threatens the region.

By the time he died, aged just 32, he had redrawn the map of the northern hemisphere ... the world has been obsessed with Alexander the Great, who set out from his kingdom of Macedon (in modern ...

That includes the Great Lakes Theater production “Peter and the Starcatcher,” which runs Feb. 7 through March 2 at Playhouse Square’s Hanna Theatre. Despite it being award-winning and ...

Since his death in 323 BCE, the world has been obsessed with Alexander the Great, who set out from his ... who adds that the Macedonian “redrew the map of the world” by force, where his ...