[4][5] The magazine is published six times a year and offered either as an individual subscription or an enhancement to a membership with the Historical Society of Michigan.
For the next sixty years, Michigan History served as a traditionally academic quarterly publication, continuing to offer scholarly essays, book reviews, and news items.
On October 1, 2009, the magazine moved to the Historical Society of Michigan, a non-governmental nonprofit—the same organization that had been involved in producing the publication from its founding through 1965.
The Society, led by executive director and CEO Larry J. Wagenaar, then established the subsidiary Michigan History Magazine L3C.
Feature stories are typically authored by outside writers and historians who possess knowledge in Michigan's social, cultural, political, economic, architectural, and institutional history.