History

  1. April 17, 2017

    Preservation Clinic to help people save personal pieces of history

    As the university celebrates its bicentennial year, the U-M Library wants to help members of the campus community preserve their own pieces of history at a Preservation Clinic April 27.

  2. April 17, 2017

    Bentley project uncovers untold history of African-Americans at U-M

    The Bentley Historical Library is working to uncover and collect the names and life stories of all the African-American students who attended U-M from its founding to the Black Action Movement in 1970.

  3. April 12, 2017

    Museum celebrates U-M bicentennial by featuring 200 objects in 200 days

    To celebrate the U-M’s bicentennial year, every day for 200 days through Oct. 16,  the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology will feature an artifact from its collections in a news post on its home page. 

  4. April 10, 2017

    U-M’s Uncle Jimmy

    James Ottley, the University of Michigan’s custodian and “hatman,” was known to scores of U-M students as Uncle Jimmy.

  5. April 10, 2017

    U-M professor’s book on Attica uprising wins Pulitzer Prize

    Professor and historian Heather Ann Thompson’s book “Blood in the the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy” has won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for history.

  6. April 6, 2017

    Grandmother Tree Walk tours at the Arb run throughout 2017

    Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum are celebrating U-M’s bicentennial with the Grandmother Tree Walk, a self-guided journey through Michigan’s 200-year history from the perspective of trees.

  7. April 3, 2017

    A furry icon in the making

    The pudgy, curious and oftentimes fearless squirrels that roam the Ann Arbor campus have delighted students, faculty, staff and visitors for decades. 

  8. March 31, 2017

    Bentley Historical Library digitizes 12 decades of Michigan Daily history

    The Bentley Historical Library has unveiled 12 decades of Michigan Daily history through a new online database that contains searchable digital copies of the historic newspaper.

  9. March 30, 2017

    New Big Ten project aids searching of geospatial data and maps

    Scholars and researchers have a new way to find and compare geospatial data and maps: the Big Ten Academic Alliance Geoportal, which allows searching across thousands of records.

  10. March 27, 2017

    The Wolverine jingle

    Albert Ahronheim, a former Michigan Marching Band drum major and graduate assistant, created a full arrangement for the “Let’s Go Blue” tune-and-cheer, but the history behind the iconic jingle is not as simple as one might predict.