History
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November 5, 2015
Former Sen. Carl Levin donates archive to Bentley Library
Former U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, who served from 1979 to 2015, has donated the collected materials from his 36 years in office to the Bentley Historical Library.
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November 2, 2015
Marchers
Women cross the Diag in the 1950s with a banner for Sorosis, the professional women’s club.
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October 26, 2015
Art and design
A female student works at an easel during an art class in 1949 in the College of Architecture and Design.
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October 19, 2015
Caesar and Cleopatra
Having identified the need for a new theater on campus, Eugene and Sadye Power, along with their son Philip, made a major gift to U-M, leading to the construction of the Power Center for the Performing Arts. It formally opened its doors in 1971. The Department of Theatre & Drama subsequently presented its first play there that year, George Bernard Shaw’s “Caesar and Cleopatra.”
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October 13, 2015
Bentley Historical Library makes Kevorkian papers open to public
The Bentley Historical Library has acquired the papers of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, a controversial Detroit-area native best known for his advocacy of physician-assisted suicide.
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October 12, 2015
Football legend
Tom Harmon, a Heisman Trophy winner at U-M, and actress Anita Louise, his co-star in the movie “Harmon of Michigan,” pose next to the Ingalls Mall fountain in 1941.
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October 5, 2015
Tea time
A 25th Anniversary Tea commemorating the construction of the Martha Cook Building takes place in October 1940.
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September 28, 2015
Aiding the war effort
Men stand at a booth at the corner of North University Avenue and State Street where women are selling savings bonds during World War II.
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September 21, 2015
Dressed for success
Well-dressed students make their way around Central Campus in 1929.
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September 14, 2015
First day
Shirley (Dayharsh) Barron and Carol Vestal Allen, U-M School of Nursing Class of 1958, are pictured on their first day of class in 1955.
