History
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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.
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February 20, 2017
Tappan’s dismissal
On June 25, 1863, the University of Michigan Board of Regents voted to remove the university’s first president, Henry Philip Tappan, from office.
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February 14, 2017
LSA bicentennial talk to explore U-M during World War I, aftermath
LSA’s third Bicentennial Theme Semester Symposium, which begins Friday, will explore the historical impact on U-M of World War I and its aftermath.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
