History
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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March 27, 2017
‘Stumbling Blocks’ bicentennial exhibition to tackle U-M’s history, look to future
An upcoming pop-up art exhibition on campus, featuring seven provocative installations, will explore challenges throughout the university’s history and serve as a resource to guide U-M through its third century.
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March 20, 2017
The origins of ‘Go Blue!’
History does not paint a clear, definite picture of how “Go Blue” became the rallying cry of University of Michigan Wolverines.
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March 13, 2017
The history of maize and blue
In the late 1860s, a committee of U-M students charged with choosing the university’s colors recommended that “azure blue and maize” be adopted as the institution’s symbolic colors.
