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News Stories
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At Freeman Field
Discover how archived records at the Bentley show that a 1945 protest led by officers on Indiana’s Freeman Field ultimately paved the way for desegregation in the military.
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The First Forecast
Predicting the weather seemed like an impossible dream, until U-M’s Detroit Observatory trained a man who created something revolutionary: the weather forecast.
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