A selection of books available at MSUL on Lansing History:
- Out of a Wilderness: An Illustrated History of Greater Lansing (Kestenbaum, 1981)
- City in the Forest; the Story of Lansing (Darling, 1950)
- Early Lansing History (Edmonds, 1944)
- Headlight Flashes Along the Michigan Central Line (in Hathi Trust, 1895)
- A history of the city of Lansing, from the foundation thereof down to the present time (Dash, 1870); in Hathi Trust
- Lansing and its Yesterdays : A Compilation of a Portion of the historical Material Published in the Seventy-fifth Anniversary Edition of the Lansing State Journal, January 1, 1930
- Lansing : Capital, Campus, and Cars (Manassah, 1986)
- Lansing: City on the Grand, 1836- 1939 (MacLean and Whitford, 2003)
- Lansing Illustrated (Baker, 1888)
- R. E. Olds and Industrial Lansing (Rodriguez, 2004)
- The story of Reo Joe : work, kin, and community in Autotown, U.S.A. (Fine, 2004)
- Setting the Pace : Oldsmobile's first 100 Years (Earley, 1996)
