James B. Angell

1. April 7, 2025

   It Happened at Michigan — One hundred years of Angell Hall

   Angell Hall, one of the Ann Arbor campus’ most iconic academic buildings and home to the Fishbowl was developed in the 1920s to address overcrowding on campus.

2. April 17, 2023

   Heritage Project — Angell, China and opium

   During a grand dinner in 1910 celebrating James Burrill Angell’s nearly 40-year tenure as U-M’s president, Angell touted among his accomplishments the treaty he negotiated with China regarding opium.

3. August 13, 2018

   Angell’s diplomatic journey to China

   U-M President James Burrill Angell once played a crucial role in negotiating two treaties with China — an immigration treaty at the behest of the U.S. government, and a second trade treaty drafted by the Chinese, which in part enacted an absolute ban on Chinese-American commerce in opium.