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Segregated Service
Fall 2017A rare set of photographs captures the working life of two African American Civilian Conservation Corps camps during the Great Depression. But who are these men and what was life in the camps like?
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Please Forgive Me. – Jerry
Fall 2017Provocative, offensive, and often hilarious, the Detroit-based magazines Orbit, Fun, and White Noise recently found a home at the Bentley. As it turns out, there’s a lot more going on in those pages than raunchy jokes.
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An Unwritten Law
Spring 2017In 1930, U-M tried to ignore African American women when it opened Mosher-Jordan, a new dormitory for female students. Meet the women who refused to accept being invisible.
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Renewing Our Vows
Spring 2017As U-M celebrates 200 years, Bentley Director Terrence McDonald reflects on the “vows” that the University has made since its inception.
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Five Moments that Shaped Michigan
Spring 2017A meeting in fire-razed Detroit. Two physicists on an Ann Arbor lawn. A lone woman in a Greek class in 1866. In honor of U-M’s Bicentennial, we look at some of the moments and movements that altered the course of Michigan history forever.
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Hidden Collections
Spring 2017Two archivists at the Bentley write about a new initiative to uncover women’s stories at the University of Michigan.
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In Living Color
Spring 2017What do maize and blue look like? The answer has historically depended on whom you ask — and when.
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