History

  1. July 28, 2014

    Passenger pigeon’s extinction 100 years ago was call to action

    The extinction of the passenger pigeon 100 years ago was a call to action. To mark the centennial, the Museum of Natural History presents an exhibit about the birds through January.

  2. July 14, 2014

    Old School: Art Fair

    Children look on as an artist works on a wood figure at the 1972 Ann Arbor Art Fair.

  3. July 14, 2014

    Alumnus Raoul Wallenberg honored with Congressional Gold Medal

    In a rare posthumous ceremony, U-M alumnus Raoul Wallenberg was presented with the Congressional Gold Medal on June 9 in honor of his heroism during the Holocaust.

  4. June 23, 2014

    Old School: Parade love

    Well-dressed gentlemen and ladies look on, as a clown joins band performers in a Michigan Union Shows parade, circa 1909.

  5. June 9, 2014

    Old School: Jazz legend

    Legendary tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon attends an Ann Arbor Jazz Festival workshop presented by Eclipse Jazz in 1984. 

  6. May 19, 2014

    Spring term signup

    Staff members register students for classes in May 1976.

  7. May 5, 2014

    Old School: Puerto Rican leader

    After graduating from the University of Michigan, Dr. Jose Celso Barbosa returned to Puerto Rico, practiced medicine, founded the pro-statehood Puerto Rican Republican Party and became known as the father of the Puerto Rican statehood movement.

  8. April 28, 2014

    On the riverbank

    Students gather near the Huron River in 1957.

  9. April 21, 2014

    Opponents reunited

    Former presidents Jimmy Carter and U-M alumnus Gerald R. Ford, who ran against one another in the 1976 presidential election, listen to a moderator during a 1983 conference at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library on North Campus.

  10. April 14, 2014

    Old School: A president’s funeral

    Crowds attend a funeral procession for former U-M President James Burrill Angell, on April 3, 1916, along State Street.