History
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September 12, 2022
Heritage Project — End of ‘Hours’
For more than a century, the university was every student’s mother and father. By law and by custom, the school operated in loco parentis – “in place of parents.”
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September 6, 2022
Heritage Project — ‘A Creation of My Own’
It was 1852. The University of Michigan needed a leader, a true president, or it might fall apart for good. A man in New York was recommended, a philosopher and clergyman, Henry Philip Tappan.
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August 29, 2022
Heritage Project — Madonna slept here
As today’s U-M students settle into residence halls and apartment buildings, they occupy the homes of former students who have gone on to change the world with their words, ideas and actions.
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August 15, 2022
Heritage Project — Wallenberg at Michigan
Before outfoxing the Nazis, risking his life, and saving 100,000 Jews from the hell of World War II death camps, Raoul Wallenberg was a U-M student.
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July 25, 2022
Heritage Project — The vanishing of Schoolgirls’ Glen
From the late 1800s through World War II, university students and the people of Ann Arbor liked to walk through a deep, green ravine that led from the heights near Forest Hill Cemetery down to the Huron River.
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June 23, 2022
Mastodon tusk chemical analysis reveals evidence of migration
Around 13,200 years ago, a roving male mastodon died in a bloody mating-season battle with a rival in what today is northeast Indiana, according to the first study to document the annual migration of an individual animal from an extinct species.
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June 20, 2022
Heritage Project — Blue angel
When he was 86 years old, Forman Brown walked into a gay bookstore in Los Angeles and asked a manager if the shop carried “Better Angel.” The manager handed Brown a copy of the novel. The book was well done, he told Brown, and quite popular. “I think you’ll like it.” “I’m sure I shall,” Brown replied. “You see, I wrote it.”
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June 6, 2022
Heritage Project — The arsonist was a scholar
Robert H. Stacy wrote to U-M President Alexander G. Ruthven that he was being falsely accused of setting the fire that destroyed Haven Hall on June 6, 1950, and felt that his life’s goal of becoming a college professor was “all but destroyed.” Stacy would be proven wrong on both counts.
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May 23, 2022
Heritage Project — The robber’s third chance
Right around Christmas 1950, a string of hold-ups was reported around Detroit. The culprit turned out to be 20-year-old James Minder, a very bright undergraduate in LSA.
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May 2, 2022
Heritage Project — J-Hop’s rise and fall
Since its founding, the mid-year social event that became known as the Junior Hop, then simply and universally as J-Hop, had swelled into a glittering three-day-and-night festival.
