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The 1962 U-M Baseball Team leaving a plane after returning from Japan.

Making Michigan

Go, Blue: A History of Michigan Athletics and International Travel

  • Thursday, March 19, 2026
  • 6:00 – 7:30 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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African American U-M students picketing in support of the Black Action Movement in front of Hill Auditorium.

Making Michigan

A Place for Politics, Protest, & Performance: Exploring the Hidden Histories of Hill Auditorium

  • Thursday, February 19, 2026
  • 6:00 – 7:30 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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Angell Hall seen from the southwest.

Making Michigan

The Children’s Psychiatric Hospital at the University of Michigan, 1955 – 1990

  • Thursday, December 11, 2025
  • 6:00 – 7:30 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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Angell Hall seen from the southwest.

Making Michigan

The Edmund Fitzgerald Investigations

  • Thursday, October 16, 2025
  • 6:00 – 7:30 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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Professor David Gerdes performs a physics demonstration using a plastic ball on a string.

Making Michigan

Saturday Morning Physics: Thirty Years of Engaging, Educating, and Entertaining the Public

  • Thursday, September 25, 2025
  • 6:00 – 7:30 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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A yellow typewriter superimposed over a map of the U-M campus.

Making Michigan

Unboxing the Unexpected: The Notable and the Infamous in U-M’s archives

  • Thursday, May 15, 2025
  • 7:00 – 9:00 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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A map of Michigan showing its counties in 1842.

Making Michigan

The 1817 Project: U-M’s Origins, Indigenous Lands, and Institutional (In)Action

  • Thursday, April 10, 2025
  • 7:00 – 9:00 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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Male and female medical students of the class of 1880 outside the U-M Hospital.

Making Michigan

History, Power, and the Stories We Tell: Making Race, Space, and Memory at Michigan

  • Thursday, March 27, 2025
  • 7:00 – 9:00 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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An art class painting in the U-M Law Quad.

Making Michigan

Giving It All Away: The Story of William W. Cook and His Michigan Law Quadrangle

  • Thursday, February 13, 2025
  • 7:00 – 9:00 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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U-M President Clarence Cook Little and Henry Ford in commencement robes.

Making Michigan

Quotas and the President: Jewish Inclusion and Exclusion at U-M in the 1920s

  • Thursday, November 14, 2024
  • 7:00 – 9:00 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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