History
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September 12, 2016
Pretty good, man
Horace Prettyman never lost a game as a U-M football captain from 1884-86. He was a member of eight varsity teams beginning in 1882, and was part of the university’s first racially integrated team in 1890.
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September 6, 2016
Remembering
Members of the U-M community gather Sept. 11, 2001, on the Diag following terrorist attacks on the United States earlier that day.
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July 11, 2016
Dr. Dock
Dr. George Dock, with percussion hammer, demonstrates proper procedure in an amphitheater-style classroom in 1898, in the Medical School.
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June 20, 2016
Diag scene
A man holds his bicycle next to class of 1862 boulder in the U-M Diag, circa 1890-1910.
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June 6, 2016
Olympic tradition
One of the strongest Michigan Athletics traditions is its Olympic tradition. U-M has had medal winners in every Summer Olympics except 1896 and gold medalists in all but four Summer Olympiads.
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May 23, 2016
Put me in coach
The 1929 U-M baseball team poses for a photo.
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May 2, 2016
Advancing vaccines
Under the direction of Dr. Thomas Francis, U-M conducted clinical trials in 1954 that confirmed the effectiveness of the polio vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas Salk. The discovery helped to end one of the major medical scourges of the 20th century.
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April 25, 2016
Mediator
Robben Fleming walks with demonstrators in April 1988, as he returned to U-M to briefly serve as interim president.
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April 18, 2016
En garde
The University of Michigan Women’s Fencing Club poses for a 1930 photo.
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April 11, 2016
Flower power
Since the late 1920s, visiting the Nichols Arboretum Peony Garden has become an annual spring pilgrimage for visitors from Michigan and beyond.