History

  1. February 13, 2017

    Targeting Tappan

    Although the University of Michigan’s first president earned the love of students and the respect of many faculty, Henry Philip Tappan also had his fair share of critics.

  2. February 6, 2017

    Charles Horton Cooley and the looking-glass self

    After graduating from U-M in 1887, Charles Horton Cooley earned a master’s degree in economics at U-M and started working at the Interstate Commerce Commission. Henry Carter Adams later hired Cooley to be an instructor in U-M’s economics department. 

  3. February 2, 2017

    Next LSA bicentennial symposium looks at U-M during Reconstruction

    The second LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester symposium, “1877: Reconstructing the University of Michigan,” kicks of Feb. 10 and will focus on a period when U-M began to assume its modern form. 

  4. January 30, 2017

    John Dewey and a new perspective

    When James Burrill Angell was president of the University of Vermont, he became friendly with the Dewey family. One of the family’s sons, John Dewey, showed such promise at the University of Vermont that Angell remembered him 15 years later, when he was searching for a philosophy instructor for U-M.

  5. January 23, 2017

    Between two paintings, years of growth

    A 1907 view of the U-M campus painted by Richard Rummell, an artist well-known for his “bird’s-eye” landscapes.

  6. January 16, 2017

    MLK keynote

    In 1989, California State Assembly Speaker Willie Brown Jr. gave the opening address at Hill Auditorium as part of U-M’s celebrations honoring the great civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 

  7. January 9, 2017

    President Angell’s birthday

    James Burrill Angell, the third U-M president, was born Jan. 7, 1829, in Rhode Island. Known as “Prexy” to students, he served as U-M’s president from 1871 to 1909. 

  8. December 12, 2016

    President Robben Fleming’s birthday

    Robben W. Fleming, the university’s ninth president, was born on Dec. 18, 1916. Fleming led U-M from 1968 to 1979. 

  9. December 5, 2016

    University Musical Society organ

    In 1894, the University Musical Society bought the great, 3,901-pipe organ that enthralled guests at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

  10. November 21, 2016

    Sophomore Cabaret

    Starting in the late 1920s, the Sophomore Cabaret was an annual entertainment extravaganza organized by sophomore women at the University of Michigan.