Join us for the Bentley Historical Library’s series of talks exploring the history of the University of Michigan.
Making Michigan will return in April 2024. Until then, please enjoy one of the previous lectures below.
How U-M’s First Hospital Made History – with Joel Howell
Four Years of “Making Michigan” and Four Decades at Michigan: Some Reflections – with Gary Krenz
A Stunning Achievement: The Improbable Collaboration of the Bentley Library and the Vatican Archives
More Than “First Do No Harm”: Modeling Global Engagement with the U-M/Ghana Partnership
A City’s Conscience: The Life and Career of Josephine Gomon
Wolverine Writers II: Stories of Fire, Ice, and Rebirth
Poets at Michigan: Then and Now
A Library for All: U-M, Google, and the Importance of Having a Copy
Keeping Resistance Alive: Chandler Davis and Academic Freedom at U-M
Fifty Years of Native American Student Activism with Bethany Hughes
To Put Living Force Into the Symbols: The Journeys of Anatol Rapaport
Wolverine Writers: History and Storytelling Across Campus and through the Years
Seeing Anew Symposium 1: The Observatory and 19th-Century Science and Scholarship
Seeing Anew Symposium 2: The Observatory in the History of Astronomy
Seeing Anew Symposium 3: The Observatory as an Historic Site for Contemporary Education
Seeing Anew Keynote: Astrophysicist Brian Nord in conversation with Gary Krenz
The McCarthy-Era Red Scare in Michigan: Its Meaning, Then and Now with David Maraniss
Sing to the Colors: My Complicated Love Song to the University with James Tobin
Undermining Racial Justice at the University of Michigan with Matthew Johnson
Anti-Fascism at U-M: Defending Democracy During the Spanish Civil War with Juli Highfill
Radical Roots, Contested Place: African American and African Studies at U-M with Stephen Ward
Stars Rising: Why U-M’s Detroit Observatory Matters — and Where It’s Going with Gary Krenz
Telling the Truth About the Liberal Arts: Histories and Futures with Terry McDonald