Lanstories

In this follow-up to episode 10, Lanstories continues the exploration of Lansing baseball teams in the early days of the professional and semi-pro game. This episode considers more aspects of the Lansing Senators and examines the development of the Lansing Baseball Association, Lansing’s city league that formed in the 1920s and had a major presence in the city. Cultural and social aspects of baseball are also considered along with the ultimate fate of baseball at the professional and semipro level in Lansing.

Keywords: Baseball, Minor League Baseball, Semipro Baseball, Lansing, City League Baseball, American culture, American society, Lansing Senators, Lansing Lugnuts, Lansing History, Michigan History, Michigan State League, Southern Michigan League, Central League, Municipal Park

This episode explores the history of baseball in Lansing, focusing on the late-1800s to early-1900s time period. The Lansing Senators were a professional baseball team that played in a minor league known as the Michigan State League. The Senators were notable for having the first professional Black baseball player in the United States, Bud Fowler. The Senators played in several locations around the city. In places like Lansing, professional baseball developed side-by-side the urbanization and industrialization of America.

Keywords: Baseball, Lansing, Michigan, Professional Baseball, Black Baseball Players, Bud Fowler, John W. Jackson, Ball park, Urbanization, Industrialization, City Parks, Minor League Baseball, Major League Baseball, Waverly High School, John Smoltz, Atlanta Braves

The third in a three-part series, this episode concludes our look at the historical background behind the Lansing Community College Land Acknowledgement statement. Part three explores how the lands formerly held by the Potawatomi and other Anishinaabeg came into the possession of Euro-Americans, with a focus on tribal sovereignty, land cession treaties and the forced removal of indigenous peoples from their ancestral homelands.

Keywords: Anishinaabeg, Three-Fires People, Ojibway, Odawa, Potawatomi, Indigenous America, Indigenous Michigan, Land Cessions, Treaties, Ethnic Cleansing, Genocide, Trail of Tears, Mid-Michigan, Michigan, Lansing History, Michigan History, Prehistoric, Land Use, Land Appropriation, Land Acknowledgement, Lansing Community College, Ingham County, Michigan

The second in a three-part series, this episode continues to examine the historical background behind the Lansing Community College Land Acknowledgement statement by considering how the lands formerly held by the Potawatomi and other Anishinaabeg came into the possession of Euro-Americans. With a focus on the changing political, geographic, and economic circumstances following the American War of Independence, this program takes a closer look at what happened after white settlers from the east came to desire indigenous lands in southern Michigan.

Keywords: Anishinaabeg, Three-Fires People, Ojibway, Odawa, Potawatomi, Indigenous America, Indigenous Michigan, Land Cessions, Treaties, Ethnic Cleansing, Genocide, Trail of Tears, Mid-Michigan, Michigan, Lansing, Michigan History, Prehistoric, Land Use, Land Appropriation, Land Acknowledgement, Lansing Community College, Ingham County, Michigan

The first in a three-part series, this episode examines life in Mid-Michigan for the indigenous Anishinaabeg. Part one explores life in the Great Lakes region millennia ago and the cultural differences between the Anishinaabeg and later European colonizers. Content includes a focus on what is known and not-known of the centuries of human existence that pre-date European and Euro-American interest in the region.

Website: LCC History Degrees & Programs

Keywords: Anishinaabeg, Three-Fires People, Ojibway, Odawa, Potawatomi, Indigenous America, Indigenous Michigan, Pre-Contact, Archaeology, Neolithic, Mid-Michigan, Lansing History, Michigan History, Prehistoric, Land Use, Land Appropriation, Land Acknowledgement, Lansing Community College, Ingham County, Michigan

This episode, part two of a two-part program on Austin Blair, continues an examination of Blair's life and people remember or memorialize historical events and people. Topics covered include the Civil War, Michigan politics during the Civil War, Austin Blair's political career and the memorial erected in his honor on the State Capitol grounds in Lansing.

Keywords: Austin Blair, Ulysses S Grant, Civil War, Michigan, Union, Confederacy, Confederate Flag, Civil War Regiments, Michigan Politics, Michigan Capitol, Lansing, Republican Party, Liberal Republican Party, Horace Greeley, Reconstruction, Ku Klux Klan, United States Constitution, 13th Amendment, 14th Amendment, 15th Amendment, Freedmen, Slavery, Grant’s Memoirs

This episode of Lanstories begins a look at Austin Blair, Governor of Michigan from 1861-1865 and considers not only the historical events he was a part of, but also how memories and ideas of the past become part of our culture, our "historical memory."

Tags/Keywords: Lanstories, Lansing, Michigan, Jackson, Michigan, New York, History, Civil War, Slavery, Republican Party, Anti-Slavery, Abolition, Eaton Rapids, Michigan, Michigan House of Representatives, Michigan Senate, Michigan Governor, United States House of Representatives, Free-Soil Party

In this episode, part three of a three-part series, Siwik continues looking at the growth and development of Lansing Community College's downtown campus, with particular attention on the construction of Dart Auditorium and the Technology and Learning Center building (TLC). Siwik also covers the broader topic of where Lansing Community College's downtown campus fits into the community college movement and construction of campuses all around Michigan and the United States during the 1960s, including a comparison to other Michigan community colleges.

Keywords: Lansing Community College; Lansing; History; Lansing history; Mid-Michigan, Mid-Michigan history; Gannon Building; Washington Mall; Washington Court; Dart Auditorium; community college; community college planning; community college construction; Alden B. Dow; Delta College; University Center, Michigan

In part two of a three-part series, Lanstories continues to examine the growth of the downtown Lansing Campus for Lansing Community College. Picking up where episode two left off, this show looks at the space where the University Center is currently located, as well as the development of the Washington Square/Washington Mall pedestrianized area in downtown Lansing, including the construction of the Gannon Building in the 1970s.

Keywords: Lansing Community College; Lansing; Michigan; Lansing History; History; Local History; Old Central; Carnegie Library; Elijah E Myers; Washington Square; Washington Mall; Downtown Revitalization; Urban Renewal; Gannon Building, Gannon Parking Ramp

In part one of a three-part series, this episode explores the history behind the laying out of the selection of the location of Lansing Community College's downtown campus and looks at the history of some of the buildings. Content discussed includes the founding of LCC in 1957, the Rogers-Carrier and Herrmann Houses, as well as the Community College Act of 1966, the construction of the Arts & Sciences Building and downtown redevelopment efforts along with urban renewal in the 1960s.

Keywords: Lansing Community College, Lansing, Michigan, Community College Act 1966, Dr. Philip J. Gannon, Urban Renewal, Rogers-Carrier, Herrmann, Arts & Sciences Building, Downtown Lansing, Community Colleges, 1960s, Downtown Lansing, Urban Planning, Michigan History, Lansing History, Lansing Community College History