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Frozen Out
Fall 2024Forgotten start dates. Varsity status denials. Archived records at the Bentley show how the U-M women’s ice hockey team has repeatedly been iced out.
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Michigan’s Failed Anarchist Utopia
Fall 2024Founded during the Great Depression, the Sunrise Cooperative Farm Community was created on a dream of equality. But as records reveal, the dream was short-lived.
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Up, Lad, Up
Fall 2024John Nakamura was a smart, conscientious U-M student hoping to become a journalist. Then the United States entered World War II. His path was altered, but never his heart.
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The Great Ideals Marching Through Her
Fall 2024As the United States entered World War I, poet Angela Morgan picked up her pen. Her papers reveal the struggles she endured to change hearts and minds with the written word.
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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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“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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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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