History
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September 18, 2023
It Happened at Michigan — ‘Jazz Goes to College’
A University of Michigan audience helped make Dave Brubeck an icon of 20th-century jazz. Brubeck, a pianist, made national headlines in 1954 with the release of “Jazz Goes to College.”
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September 12, 2023
Recording of two operas shines light on underrepresented work
The first full recordings of two operas — “De Organizer” and “The Dreamy Kid” — performed in 2006 in Hill Auditorium were recently released.
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September 11, 2023
It Happened at Michigan — Physics, Ann Arbor and J. Robert Oppenheimer
What began as a modest university summer lecture program featuring notable physicists in 1923 evolved into an extraordinary series of appearances by some of the greatest minds in theoretical physics.
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September 5, 2023
It Happened at Michigan — A dentist’s silent world
When George Gregor William Andree entered University Hall to receive his U-M diploma in 1908, he did not experience were the sounds of the June ceremony.
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August 28, 2023
It Happened at Michigan — ‘Like life without food’
Theodore Roosevelt Speigner was a trailblazer in more than one way. Bolstered by a pioneering U-M doctorate, he was an advocate of teaching conservation well before the environmental movement of the 1970s took hold.
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August 14, 2023
Clements announces online access to Revolutionary War manuscripts
The William L. Clements Library has made available volumes of papers from Thomas Gage, a British commander-in-chief in the decade leading up to the American Revolution.
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August 14, 2023
Heritage Project — How the net was won
Douglas Van Houweling and Eric Aupperle led a group that submitted a proposal to the National Science Foundation to upgrade the agency’s overloaded computing backbone.
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July 24, 2023
Heritage Project — A cabin in the woods
For more than a century, U-M students have been leaving their mark on the gray metal cabins at the U-M Biological Station.
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June 19, 2023
Heritage Project — How the Michigan Union came to be
Today people say the name Michigan Union and think only of the building. The building is the physical remnant of that early-1900s movement to forge a new ethos for the “Michigan Man.”
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June 5, 2023
Heritage Project — Michigan in the making
From the first painting of U-M’s rural campus by Jasper Cropsey in 1855 to Richard Rummell’s work in 1907 depicting a bustling landscape, U-M’s campus had become a new kind of enterprise entirely.
