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Fields of Gold
Spring 2024One researcher’s quest to resurrect a nearly extinct strain of rye seed started in the archives but quickly expanded to seed banks, national parks, a whiskey distillery, and beyond.
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Seeing Stars Through the Clouds
Spring 2024For both astronomers and the public, predicting the weather was long an impossible dream. That is, until U-M’s Detroit Observatory trained a man who created the weather forecast.
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Language Lessons
Spring 2024What do you do when the descriptions of archival collections are outdated, even racist? A new initiative at the Bentley is tackling a strategic, long-term fix.
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Picture This
Spring 2024Thousands of historical photos will soon be available digitally as part of a new effort to better serve local communities.
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Teaching Black History in the Early 20th Century
Spring 2024An adult-education class brought Black history to life in a Depression-era Ann Arbor classroom.
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“Archives are for Everyone”
Meet Kate Donovan, the director of the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. She’s part of our new series about great archivists doing important work in the field.
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A Riot, a Murder, and a Psychic
Spring 2024After a U-M student was killed in 1890, a psychic visited town claiming to be able to name the murderer.
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