February 13, 2017
Targeting Tappan
Although U-M's first president earned the love of students and the respect of many faculty, Henry Philip Tappan also had his fair share of critics.
Old School
February 6, 2017
Cooley and the looking-glass self
After graduating from U-M, Charles Horton Cooley started working at the Interstate Commerce Commission. He returned to join U-M's economics department, where his ideas came to "undergird much of 20th century sociology."
January 30, 2017
John Dewey and a new perspective
John Dewey, an early philosophy professor at U-M, became one of the chief theorists of the school of philosophy that became known as pragmatism.
January 23, 2017
Between two paintings, years of growth
A 1907 view of the University Michigan campus painted by Richard Rummell, an artist well-known for his "bird's-eye" landscapes.
January 16, 2017
MLK keynote
In 1989, California State Assembly Speaker Willie Brown Jr. gave the opening address at Hill Auditorium as part of U-M's celebrations honoring civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
January 9, 2017
President Angell's birthday
James Burrill Angell, the university's third president, was born Jan. 7, 1829, in Rhode Island. Known as "Prexy" to students, he served as U-M's president from 1871 to 1909.
December 12, 2016
President Robben Fleming's birthday
Robben W. Fleming, the university's ninth president, was born on Dec. 18, 1916. Fleming led U-M from 1968 to 1979.
December 5, 2016
University Musical Society organ
The Frieze Memorial Organ, which entertained visitors to the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, sits inside University Memorial Hall in 1896.
November 21, 2016
Sophomore Cabaret
A chorus for the Sophomore Cabaret pose with umbrellas in 1929. The annual female entertainment extravaganza was a campus tradition from the late 1920s through the mid-'50s.
November 14, 2016
Inauguration day
The inauguration ceremony for Harlan H. Hatcher, eighth president of U-M, took place in November 1951. He served as president until Robben W. Fleming assumed the leadership position in 1968.