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All the World’s a Stage
Fall 2015The daughter of former slaves, Eva Jessye would stand in Washington with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and teach at the University of Michigan. Meet a woman who changed the face of the arts—and America.
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A Historian at Heart
Fall 2015Meet Frank Wilhelme, a philanthropist with an affinity for the past who rifled through the Bentley’s archives when it was still in the basement of U-M’s Rackham Building.
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The Evolution of Michigan Football
Fall 2015How the game as we know it formed out of class rivalries, rugby, and one troublesome picket fence.
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Students and the Stacks
Fall 2015New courses and initiatives mean more U-M undergrads are getting their hands on history’s primary sources.
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Rock and Role
Spring 2015An Ann Arbor memorial has been painted over for years. Bentley materials reveal what’s underneath all those layers.
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All the News That’s Fit to Preserve
Spring 2015Approximately 400 glass plate negatives documenting the history and work of the Detroit News through the late 19th century and early 20th century recently came to the Bentley.
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Science Versus the Nazis. Full Stop.
Spring 2015A telegram in the Bentley’s archives reveals a Jewish scientist on the run from Nazi persecutors, and a U-M dean keen to recruit a brilliant mind.
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