A feat to cherish
The Jesse Owens story is the subject of the new film "Race," but for U-M fans of track & field, the Owens story that truly resonates took place here, in 1935, when the Ohio State Buckeye made...
View ArticleGuerrilla librarians
In 2005, a move to shut down the Residential College’s popular Benzinger Library sparked student protests, sit-ins, and a move to take back the stacks of East Quad.
View ArticleHopwood in Havana
Cuba is top of mind for many these days. In 1924 playwright Avery Hopwood visited Havana, and his vivid diary captures the city’s heyday.
View ArticleDeath of an Angell
When the beloved James B. Angell died in April 1916, all of Ann Arbor and much of Michigan mourned his loss.
View ArticleThe women of Henderson House
The smallest of all U-M housing units is a vibrant model of the University’s diversity ideal.
View ArticleMeechigan man
Beloved Wolverines football announcer Bob Ufer, ’43, is the subject of a new documentary by filmmaker Dan Chace, BA ’83.
View ArticleDay of dissent
On Oct.15, 1969, President Robben Fleming advised U-M faculty to forgo attendance. The campus had been given over to the biggest of all 1960s peace protests.
View ArticleWhat’s in a name?
In 1955 U-M officials fought Michigan State’s effort to change its name from “College” to “University.” Guess who lost?
View ArticleEarhart’s ‘air’ apparent
In the summer of 1967 aviator Ann Pellegreno, ’58, flew around the world, retracing the fateful path of Amelia Earhart.
View ArticlePrelude to Iwo Jima
‘Hands-on skipper’ Willard Vincent Nash, BA ’35/LLB ’35, is the little-known hero in the ‘battle before the battle’ as told in the new book 'The Heart of Hell.'
View ArticleThe great suspension
In 1874, fresh-soph warfare finally got so out of hand that Michigan's faculty suspended nearly 10 percent of male students.
View ArticleLyrically speaking
Michigan Men’s Glee Club invites U-M community to submit lyrics for new ‘Michigan song,’ composed by School of Music, Theatre & Dance professor Kristin Kuster, AMusD ’02.
View ArticlePigskins and presidents
U-M's chief executives haven't all been fans of our beloved Wolverines, though President C.C. Little (second from right) enjoyed the Big House dedication in 1927.
View ArticleBrothers of band
In the 1920s, brothers Nicholas and Leonard Falcone played opposite sides of the field as rival directors of the Michigan and Michigan State marching bands.
View ArticleThere were bells
The carillon bells in Burton Tower have been tolling for 80 years, but they are only the latest in an astonishingly varied series of bells and chimes making music at U-M.
View ArticleThe boys of ’61
In 1861, the crisis of southern secession turned Michigan’s campus into a cauldron of pro-Union meetings and military drills as students prepared to exchange books for weapons.
View Article200 years and counting
U-M’s bicentennial is upon us. What better time to celebrate the legacies and achievements that make Michigan what it is?
View ArticleAn uncommon education
University historians collaborate with Detroit Public Television to produce shortform documentary series about U-M’s legacy.
View ArticleFractured fairy tale
U-M’s first (and last) black homecoming queen remembers her reign, five decades after relinquishing her crown.
View ArticleBattle of the bookstore
In the fall of 1969, students took over the LSA Building -- not to protest the war in Vietnam but to insist on the right to run their own bookstore.
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