Michigan Today

1. April 19, 2020

   Two weeks in 1918: The flu pandemic and U-M

   When an unfamiliar strain of influenza reached Ann Arbor in late September 1918, it would lead to two terrible weeks as U-M dealt with the effects of a spreading pandemic that seem eerily familiar today.

2. February 19, 2018

   Freedom Writer

   Heralded as “one of the most important studies ever made of the rise and fall of chattel slavery in the United States,” U-M historian Dwight Lowell Dumond’s progressive “Antislavery: The Crusade for Freedom in America” made waves in 1961 for speaking candidly about slavery.