History

  1. November 7, 2016

    Michigan Marching Band anniversary

    The University of Michigan Marching Band in 1897, one year after its formation and when formal uniforms were “still a thing of the future.” The band celebrates its 120th anniversary this month. 

  2. October 31, 2016

    Autumn in the Diag

    Students walk through the leafy Diag on a sunny autumn day in 1952.

  3. October 24, 2016

    Dodransbicentennial

    LSA, the University of Michigan’s first college, celebrates its 175th anniversary this year. Henry Simmons Frieze became the college’s first dean, but not until 1875.

  4. October 18, 2016

    Team recovers ‘most complete Michigan mastodon skeleton’ in decades

    The most complete ice age mastodon skeleton found in Michigan since the 1940s was recovered this month from the state’s Thumb region by a team led by U-M researchers.

  5. October 17, 2016

    Quasquicentennial

    The School of Nursing celebrates its 125th anniversary during Reunion Weekend Thursday-Sunday. A photo shows the Class of 1903, at which time the institution was known as the Training School for Nurses.

  6. October 10, 2016

    Birth of the Peace Corps

    Then-Sen. John F. Kennedy called his address to students on the steps of the Michigan Union in 1956 the longest short speech he ever gave, clocking in at about 3 minutes. In it he proposed what would later become the Peace Corps.

  7. October 3, 2016

    First female faculty member

    Dr. Eliza M. Mosher, an 1875 graduate of U-M’s medical department, became the university’s first female faculty member on Oct. 1, 1896, when she became dean of women and professor of hygiene.

  8. September 27, 2016

    Clements Library acquires rare, hand-drawn map of Detroit

    A recently discovered, hand-drawn map providing new information about late-18th-century Detroit is now part of the William L. Clements Library collection.

  9. September 26, 2016

    Reunion

    The Medical School’s Class of 1921 poses for a photo in front of the Pretzel Bell Restaurant in downtown Ann Arbor in 1945. 

  10. September 22, 2016

    Former U.S. Rep. David Camp donates papers to Bentley Library

    David Camp, who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1991-2015, has donated the collected materials from his 24 years in office to the Bentley Historical Library.