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Friends In Deed
Fall 2025Elizabeth Chandler and Dr. Nathan Thomas fought for the abolition of slavery at a time when many people in Michigan opposed slavery but far fewer took a stand.
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Reckoning with the History of Hate
Fall 2025A paid internship program gave students hands-on experience with archives that included studying the history of intolerance in Michigan and parallels between the past and today.
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Early Michigan Letters
Fall 2025A rare and surprising cache of sixty new letters makes its way to the Bentley to supplement an existing collection.
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And Then There Was One
Fall 2025U-M’s first buildings were the Professors’ Houses, built in 1840. Only one stands today. Bentley collections reveal which one has endured, and what happened to the rest.
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An Archivist Finds Her True Career Passion
Fall 2025Meet Michelle Light, whose training at the Bentley changed her career path. Today, she’s an associate librarian for Yale’s Library Special Collections & director of the Beinecke Library.
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Good Sports
Fall 2025University of Michigan students Lily Fritsch and Nathan Schreck are part of a new fellowship program that helps preserve and share U-M athletics history.
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Pattern Recognition
Fall 2025How fashion student Adam Denzler used Bentley collections to painstakingly recreate a 1904 University of Michigan football uniform—down to the drawers.
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