History
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July 21, 2025
It Happened at Michigan: Pumas have greeted guests for 85 years
In 1940, two black feline terrazzo sculptures were designed by university artist Carleton W. Angell and installed in front of the building now known as the Alexander G. Ruthven Building.
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July 18, 2025
More than 60K postcards digitized at Clements Library
The William L. Clements Library has recently made available a digital database of real photo postcards from the David V. Tinder Collection of Michigan Photography.
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June 23, 2025
It Happened at Michigan: U-M alum was first American to walk in space
Edward H. White II, a 1959 graduate of U-M, became the first American to walk in space June 3, 1965. The mission, known as Gemini IV, included one other astronaut, James A. McDivitt, who was also a U-M alum.
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June 9, 2025
It Happened at Michigan: 144 Hill St. was home to hundreds of Black U-M students
In the first half of the 1900s, a house at the corner of Hill and Greene streets was home to more than 250 Black U-M students, several of whom rose to national prominence.
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May 19, 2025
It Happened at Michigan: How The Rock became a local landmark
The Rock, a massive boulder at Washtenaw Avenue and Hill Street, gets a fresh coat of graffiti nearly every week. But the landmark was originally conceived as a monument to the first U.S. president.
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May 12, 2025
June symposium to explore Dental School’s 150-year history
An agenda of preeminent experts in dentistry, dental education, patient care, research and history will join a symposium June 12-13 that celebrates the sesquicentennial of the School of Dentistry.
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May 5, 2025
It Happened at Michigan: In 2008, Spring Commencement was held on the Diag
Seventeen years ago, Spring Commencement was moved to the Diag on Central Campus due to construction at Michigan Stadium. That was the first and, so far, only time it’s been held there.
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April 28, 2025
It Happened at Michigan: Irving K. Pond left his mark on U-M
Irving K. Pond co-designed the Michigan Union and the Michigan League and, as an undergraduate, scored U-M’s first football touchdown.
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April 21, 2025
It Happened at Michigan: A century of Yost
When Yost Field House opened its doors on South State Street in 1923, it was the largest indoor collegiate athletic complex in the U.S.
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April 16, 2025
The order that launched the Revolutionary War, 250 years later
The start of the Revolutionary War 250 years ago can be traced to one manuscript containing the orders for the Concord Expedition on April 18, 1775.
