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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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The Red Scare Comes to U-M
Fall 2023A student’s senior film project revisited the long-buried history of McCarthyism at U-M. More than 70 years later, the fight for academic freedom lives on through the legacy of Chandler Davis.
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The Unsinkable Sarah E. Ray
Fall 2023In 1945, Sarah Elizabeth Ray was denied passage on a steamboat on the Detroit River because she was Black. She fought the injustice, and today her trailblazing civil rights role is being preserved — including through a new collection.
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How to Qualify as a Person
Fall 2023Forty-nine years before women were granted the right to vote in the United States, Nannette Gardner would cast her ballot in Detroit, giving the suffrage movement a notable victory.
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