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1. February 13, 2023

   Scholars discuss approaches to university historical projects

   Historians, scholars and community members gathered Feb. 10 at the Michigan League for a panel discussion about how universities should best facilitate large-scale projects that reexamine their pasts.

2. February 3, 2023

   Symposium will explore universities’ institutional history

   U-M will host a symposium at noon Feb. 10 focusing on what it means for universities to uncover and reckon with their institutional pasts with regard to diversity, equity and inclusion.

3. 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.