History
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October 17, 2022
Heritage Project — Lost campus
Every alumnus carries a cherished memory of Michigan — then returns in 20 years and realizes that “my Michigan” is hard to find among the new construction of someone else’s Michigan.
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October 10, 2022
Heritage Project — In the face of fascists
In the summer of 1936, a procession of scholars — including a junior professor from U-M — crossed the main plaza of the University of Heidelberg to celebrate the 550th anniversary of one of the great universities of Europe.
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October 3, 2022
Heritage Project — Depression generation
The Great Depression tore a hole in the University of Michigan, and students who went to college in the 1930s lived in a realm of scarcity and fear.
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September 26, 2022
Egypt’s mysteries, surprises provide powerful pull
Richard Redding, associate research scientist in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, has spent nearly every winter in Egypt for about 30 years uncovering the mysteries of the Old Kingdom.
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September 26, 2022
Heritage Project — The first freshmen
Their names are nowhere on the U-M campus. But in 1841 they did what no other young person had ventured to do in Ann Arbor. These six young, white males enrolled.
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September 19, 2022
Heritage Project — A different Diag
One day in June long ago, two lawyers and a politician were given the job of recommending exactly where to build the campus of the new University of Michigan. They had two sites to look at, both of about 40 acres.
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September 12, 2022
Heritage Project — End of ‘Hours’
For more than a century, the university was every student’s mother and father. By law and by custom, the school operated in loco parentis – “in place of parents.”
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September 6, 2022
Heritage Project — ‘A Creation of My Own’
It was 1852. The University of Michigan needed a leader, a true president, or it might fall apart for good. A man in New York was recommended, a philosopher and clergyman, Henry Philip Tappan.
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August 29, 2022
Heritage Project — Madonna slept here
As today’s U-M students settle into residence halls and apartment buildings, they occupy the homes of former students who have gone on to change the world with their words, ideas and actions.
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August 15, 2022
Heritage Project — Wallenberg at Michigan
Before outfoxing the Nazis, risking his life, and saving 100,000 Jews from the hell of World War II death camps, Raoul Wallenberg was a U-M student.
