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HISTORY LOVES COMPANY
HISTORY · PLACES · STORIES
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STORIES WE KEEP
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TUESDAY NIGHT EDITION
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A BIG WEEK FOR HISTORY LOVES COMPANY
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37 Books Sold.
Three New Stories.
And We're Just Starting.
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There are weeks when everything we've been working toward starts to feel like one connected story.
Last week was one of those weeks.
We explored one of Detroit's strangest and greatest institutions. We walked one of its most important historic neighborhoods. We asked one of the biggest questions in the city's history.
And then we announced a book.
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THE BOOK IS OFFICIALLY UNDERWAY
THEY LIED TO US
ABOUT DETROIT
The Real History of a City America Never Understood
I announced the book only a few days ago.
37 copies have already been sold.
I wasn't sure what to expect when I put this project into the world. Seeing that many people immediately say, I want to read this, has been incredible.
This book follows Detroit from its earliest history through the automobile boom, segregation, Black Bottom, redlining, 1967, suburbanization, deindustrialization, bankruptcy, redevelopment and the Detroit we're living in now.
Not the easy version.
The complicated one.
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37
PREORDERS ALREADY PLACED
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The first 100 preorder customers will be part of a special limited first-run group.
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LAST WEEK ON HISTORY LOVES COMPANY
Three stories you may have missed.
Before this week's premieres begin, here's where we went last week.
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DETROIT · BOOKS · INDUSTRIAL HISTORY
Inside John K. King Used & Rare Books
Four floors.
Roughly a million books.
And one enormous old industrial building that has become one of the strangest and most wonderful places in Detroit.
John K. King is more than a bookstore. It's a maze, an archive, an industrial artifact and a reminder that sometimes the best way to preserve an old building is simply to give it an entirely new reason to exist.
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STREETS OF HISTORY · EPISODE 1
Boston-Edison: Detroit's Mansion District
Henry Ford.
Sebastian Kresge.
Joe Louis.
Berry Gordy.
Some of the most important names in Detroit history lived along these streets.
But Boston-Edison isn't important simply because famous people lived there.
Its hundreds of historic houses document Detroit's rise, its enormous industrial wealth, racial and cultural change, disinvestment and the preservation movement that kept much of the neighborhood intact.
This was Episode 1 of our new Streets of History series.
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THEY LIED TO US · EPISODE 1
What Really Destroyed Detroit?
This is the series I've wanted to make for a long time.
Detroit's decline is often reduced to one event, one mayor, one industry, one bad decade or one group of people.
History doesn't work that way.
In Episode 1, we start pulling apart the timeline and asking what was already happening before 1967:
Factories moving.
Families moving.
Highways cutting through neighborhoods.
Housing discrimination.
Jobs decentralizing.
A tax base beginning to shrink.
America remembers the explosion.
It often forgets the fuse.
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AND NOW — A NEW WEEK BEGINS
Tomorrow We Walk
Arden Park.
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STREETS OF HISTORY · EPISODE 2
Arden Park
One of Detroit's most extraordinary historic neighborhoods.
PREMIERES TOMORROW
WEDNESDAY · 6:00 PM ET
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After Boston-Edison, we're moving just a little farther east.
Arden Park-East Boston is smaller, quieter and in some ways even more remarkable.
Massive houses sit behind enormous lawns and landscaped boulevards. Automobile families, industrial fortunes and some of Detroit's most fascinating architecture all intersect here.
Tomorrow we're walking the neighborhood and telling the stories behind it.
Wednesday, September 2 at 6 PM ET.
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THIS IS ALL BECOMING ONE STORY
The videos. The book. The neighborhoods. The places.
For a long time, these felt like separate projects.
YouTube.
Historic real estate.
The Foundry.
The newsletter.
The documentary series.
The book.
They're not separate anymore.
They're different ways of doing the same thing:
Finding the stories worth keeping and making sure they aren't forgotten.
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To the first 37:
Thank you.
And to everyone who has watched, shared, commented, subscribed, visited The Foundry or told someone else about History Loves Company:
you're helping prove that people still care about these stories.
Tomorrow at 6 PM, we keep going.
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NEXT PREMIERE
Streets of History:
Arden Park
Wednesday · September 2 · 6 PM ET
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KEEP EXPLORING
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— Chris
History Loves Company
Every home has a story. Let's discover yours.
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