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Exclusion Did Not Deter Her
Spring 2022Jean Fairfax’s story emerges as part of the Bentley’s new long-term project on this history of African Americans at the University of Michigan.
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The Past Speaks in Two Voices
Spring 2022One voice says, “Things were different here”; the other voice says, “The origins of the present will be found here.” Both are actually true.
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Writing Belle
Spring 2022The now-famous librarian to J.P. Morgan wrote often to the director of U-M’s library. Their correspondence reveals mutual respect, admiration—and benefit.
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The Pride of Michigan
Spring 2022A historian and an artist team up to create a comic book celebrating Michigan’s first-ever Pride celebration.
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Sing to the Colors
Spring 2022For nearly 20 years, James Tobin has been writing about the University’s history. We sat down with him to talk about research, collections, and even finding love at the library.
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Michigan’s Moderates
Fall 2021The legacies of three long-serving political giants will be the topic of scholarly debate for years to come. But as their Bentley papers show, they were all similarly “moderate.”
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What Time Is It Now?
Fall 2021A visionary academic, a knowledge-loving businessman, and new technology to plot the stars would converge on a small hill at U-M, changing Detroit—and the campus—forever.
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