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The Detroit Observatory at twilight.

Making Michigan

Seeing Anew Symposium 1: The Observatory and 19th-Century Science and Scholarship

  • Friday, April 8, 2022
  • 12:00 – 1:30 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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Angell Hall seen from the southwest.

Making Michigan

The McCarthy-Era Red Scare in Michigan: Its Meaning, Then and Now with David Maraniss

  • Thursday, March 17, 2022
  • 7:00 – 8:30 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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A postcard depicting Angell Hall and the Burton Memorial Tower.

Making Michigan

Sing to the Colors: My Complicated Love Song to the University with James Tobin

  • Thursday, January 20, 2022
  • 7:00 – 8:30 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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Angell Hall seen from the southwest.

Making Michigan

Conquering Heroines: How Women Fought Sex Bias at Michigan and Paved the Way for Title IX with Sara Fitzgerald

  • Thursday, November 11, 2021
  • 7:00 – 8:30 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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U-M and UC Berkeley football players in the 1951 Rose Bowl.

Making Michigan

Michigan Football Game Films, 1930-1986: Digitizing Game-Day History with Brian Williams and Greg Kinney

  • Thursday, October 14, 2021
  • 7:00 – 8:30 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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Graduate student Kathleen Shortridge pointing to a poster with numbers of female and minority student enrolled at U-M in 1974.

Making Michigan

Undermining Racial Justice at the University of Michigan with Matthew Johnson

  • Thursday, September 23, 2021
  • 7:00 – 8:30 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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Angell Hall seen from the southwest.

Making Michigan

Pathways to Greatness: How the University of Michigan Became a World-Class University…and What it Cost with Terry McDonald

  • Thursday, April 8, 2021
  • 7:00 – 8:30 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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A postcard advertising sheet music for a song entitled "Michigan Forever!"

Making Michigan

Campus Chords: Devotional Harmonies and the Dissonance of Difference in the University of Michigan’s Songbook with Mark Clague

  • Thursday, March 18, 2021
  • 7:00 – 7:00 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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A mural titled "Young American Womanhood" and depicting three white women: one in graduation robes, one in a tennis outfit, and one in a dress.

Making Michigan

Constructing Gender: The Origins of the Michigan League and Michigan Union with Nancy Bartlett and Sarah McLusky

  • Thursday, February 11, 2021
  • 7:00 – 8:30 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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U-M Students attend a rally in support of the Spanish Republic in the 1930s.

Making Michigan

Anti-Fascism at U-M: Defending Democracy During the Spanish Civil War with Juli Highfill

  • Thursday, November 12, 2020
  • 7:00 – 8:30 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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