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• A Little Girl in Old Detroit, by Amanda M. Douglas (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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• All Our Yesterdays: A Brief History of Detroit (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1969), by Frank B. Woodford and Arthur M. Woodford (multiple formats at Wayne State)
• Tales of a Forgotten Village (Ypsilanti, MI: Printed by University Lithoprinters, c1953), by William P. Sugars (page images at HathiTrust)
• Toast of the Town: The Life and Times of Sunnie Wilson (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1998), by Sunnie Wilson and John Cohassey (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)
• Sketches of the City of Detroit, State of Michigan, Past and Present, by Robert E. Roberts (page images at MOA)

• A Thrilling Narrative from the Lips of the Sufferers of the Late Detroit Riot, March 6, 1863, With the Hair Breadth Escapes of Men, Women and Children, and Destruction of Colored Men's Property, Not Less Than $15,000 (reprint; Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1945) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Thrilling Narrative from the Lips of the Sufferers of the Late Detroit Riot, March 6, 1863, With the Hair Breadth Escapes of Men, Women and Children, and Destruction of Colored Men's Property, Not Less Than $15,000 (Detroit: The author, 1863) (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Diary of the Siege of Detroit in the War With Pontiac: Also a Narrative of the Principal Events of the Siege By Major Robert Rogers, a Plan for Conducting Indian Affairs By Colonel Bradstreet, and Other Authentick Documents Never Before Printed (Albany, NY: J. Munsell, 1860), by Robert Rogers and John Bradstreet, ed. by Franklin B. Hough
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Gladwin Manuscripts, With an Introduction and a Sketch of the Conspiracy of Pontiac (Lansing: R. Smith Printing Co., 1897), by Henry Gladwin, ed. by Charles Moore
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Journal of Pontiac's Conspiracy, 1763, ed. by M. Agnes Burton, trans. by R. Clyde Ford
  • HTML at americanjourneys.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Pontiac, or, The Siege of Detroit: A Drama in Three Acts, by Alexander Macomb, ed. by Marshall Davies Lloyd (HTML at mlloyd.org)

• The John Askin Papers (2 volumes; Detroit: Detroit Library Commission, 1928-1931), by John Askin, ed. by Milo Milton Quaife (both volumes: page images at HathiTrust)

• The Charter of the City of Detroit as Amended, Together with Acts of the Legislature Relating to the City (1867 edition), by Detroit (Mich.) (page images at MOA)
• Revised Charter (As Amended,) of the City of Detroit (1859 edition), by Detroit (Mich.) (page images at MOA)
• The Revised Charter and Ordinances of the City of Detroit (1855 edition), by Detroit (Mich.) (page images at MOA)

• The Boy Spies at the Siege of Detroit: A Story of the Ohio Boys in the War of 1812 (New York: A. L. Burt, c1904), by James Otis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Seasons of Grace: A History of the Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1990), by Leslie Woodcock Tentler, contrib. by Edmund Casimir Szoka (multiple formats at Wayne State)
• The Catholic Church in Detroit, 1701-1888 (Detroit, Gabriel Richard Press, c1951), by George Paré (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Detroit and Vicinity (1919), ed. by Robert E. Erickson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thirtieth Anniversary of the German Protestant Home for Orphans and Old People, 1852 West Grand Boulevard, Detroit, Michigan (Detroit: J. Bornman, printer, 1924), by Fritz Lueckhoff (page images at HathiTrust)

• Quarter Centennial, by Mich.) First Congregational Church (Detroit (page images at MOA)

• Detroit on Stage: The Players Club, 1910-2005 (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c2007), by Marijean Levering (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

• The Man in Bearskin (Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1954), by J. Keuning (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lily-Skin Lover: His Passion for Light-Complexioned Women Leads Him to Destruction (New York: Exposition Press, c1960), by George Cunningham (page images at HathiTrust)