The woods were his classroom
Pioneering forester Filibert ‘Daddy’ Roth, BS 1890, sowed early seeds that allowed U-M to grow into an environmental leader.
View ArticleMGoView
Feeling nostalgic for those halcyon days in A2? An app created at U-M delivers campus to your phone as a 3-D, augmented-reality experience.
View ArticleHalifax, heroism, and hockey
The hero of John U. Bacon's ‘The Great Halifax Explosion,’ about the biggest manmade explosion before Hiroshima, is U-M's first hockey coach.
View ArticleHair down to there
The ‘Beatle haircut’ of 1964 sent men’s locks at Michigan flowing past the ears, collars, and shoulders.
View ArticleSoldier, prisoner, lexicographer
‘Hereward Thimbleby Price’ may sound like a character in a cozy English tale, but real life took him from Madagascar to Michigan.
View ArticleRock star
As a field geologist, 98-year-old Helen Foster, BA '42/PhD '46, mapped the farthest-flung islands of Japan, met Emperor Hirohito, and documented Alaska's landscape.
View ArticleAn integrated life
Lyman T. Johnson, MA '33, was the grandson of former slaves. He integrated the University of Kentucky five years before Brown v. Board of Education.
View ArticleThe late, great ‘Cat Hole’
A woebegone corner of campus once attracted trysts, trash and, a magnificent plan for an amphitheater. And then we paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
View ArticleMe too, circa 1970
In 1970, a female secretary inspired one of the great sea changes in the University’s history: that Michigan should treat women the same as men.
View ArticleWorking his way through
An African-American student of the 1920s left a vivid memoir of his years in a semi-segregated Ann Arbor.
View ArticleJust humor me
Campus unrest often erupts at times of social unrest. But what about campus humor? Some say it's at its best when times are not.
View ArticlePolite society?
Long before it was home to Donald Trump, Mar-a-Lago was the splendid palace of Marjorie Merriweather Post. Its shimmery past still glitters at U-M.
View ArticleThe University’s busiest regent
Zina Pitcher, an unsung hero of U-M's earliest years, was a doctor, soldier, politician, and botanist.
View ArticleQueen of the Hurricanes
Elsie MacGill, MSE ’29, the first female aeronautical engineer trained at U-M, weathered polio to build planes for Britain’s R.A.F.
View ArticleCredit due
Good news! Your 1968 photo of RFK is on the cover of a current bestseller. Bad news: It's credited to someone else.
View ArticleOne day in ‘May’
In 1970, aspiring engineer Gregg Powell, BS ’71, saw the Philadelphia Orchestra at U-M’s May Festival. And everything changed.
View ArticleThat’s life
In 1947, decades before social media connected us, Life magazine shared U-M Homecoming with Wolverines worldwide.
View ArticleMe too, circa 1970
In 1970, a female secretary inspired one of the great sea changes in the University’s history: that Michigan should treat women the same as men.
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Just humor me
“Fresh, springy, vital … ” (Debut issue: Image courtesy of ‘Gargoyle Laughs at the 20th Century.’) Their reunions take place strictly during the odd-numbered years (wink, wink). They share a legacy...
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Polite society?
Fit for a king Marjorie Merriweather Post (with gloves) enjoys a day at the beach. (Image: U-M’s Bentley Historical Library.) The real estate broker inquired about the status of the posh estate in Palm...
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