History
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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.
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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.
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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.
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May 19, 2014
Spring term signup
Staff members register students for classes in May 1976.
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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.
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April 28, 2014
On the riverbank
Students gather near the Huron River in 1957.
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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.
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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.
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April 3, 2014
Old School: The Cube
Not long after its installation in Regent’s Plaza, people file past artist Bernard (Tony) Rosenthal’s creation, The Cube, acquired by the university in 1968.
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March 31, 2014
Old School: Father Gabriel Richard statue, 1940
Father Gabriel Richard, a French priest assigned in 1798 to French-speaking Detroit, embraced the ideals of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, and was a force behind the founding of the University of Michigan in 1817.
