History
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April 24, 2023
ROTC students learn the realities of D-Day where it happened
Stepping out of the classroom and onto the beaches of Normandy, France, ROTC cadets and midshipmen from U-M embarked on a journey recently to process the reality of World War II’s D-Day.
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April 24, 2023
Heritage Project — Professor Porta’s predictions
Professor Albert F. Porta predicted that on Dec. 17, 1919, “the most terrific weather cataclysm experienced since human history” would begin.
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April 17, 2023
Heritage Project — Angell, China and opium
During a grand dinner in 1910 celebrating James Burrill Angell’s nearly 40-year tenure as U-M’s president, Angell touted among his accomplishments the treaty he negotiated with China regarding opium.
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April 10, 2023
Heritage Project — Such horrible business
Early one morning just before Christmas 1857, men arriving for work on the construction of a church found heaps of fresh earth next to empty graves in a little graveyard.
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April 3, 2023
Heritage Project — Professor Ford
U-M knew Jerry Ford as a star football player, earning Most Valuable Player honors as a senior in 1934. But he had never stepped on campus bearing the title he did in the spring of 1977: Professor Gerald R. Ford.
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March 27, 2023
Global museums initiative addressing 21st century challenges
A group of natural history museums has mapped the total collections from 73 of the world’s largest natural history museums in 28 countries, including the collections from four U-M museums.
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March 27, 2023
Heritage Project — The first women
More than a half century after the first woman was admitted to U-M, the Alumnae Council of the U-M Alumni Association sent a questionnaire to every woman who had attended U-M to date.
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March 20, 2023
Heritage Project — The first teach-in
In 1965, only a handful of students were radical in their politics. But the faculty included a scattering of progressives involved in the early stirrings of dissent against the Vietnam War.
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March 13, 2023
Heritage Project — Me Too, circa 1970
A movement of sorts began at Jean Ledwith King’s modest house on the far west side of Ann Arbor early in 1970 when King and a handful of other women asserted that U-M should treat women the same as men.
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March 6, 2023
Heritage Project — ‘Our brilliant Miss Sheldon’
On her 21st birthday — Sept. 15, 1871 — a drizzly day in upstate New York, Mary Downing Sheldon boarded the train in her hometown of Oswego, secured her luggage and settled into her seat.
