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  • A portrait of Gertrude Buck.

    Rhetorical Oracle

    Gertrude Buck earned U-M’s first rhetoric Ph.D. The archives reveal how she used writing & teaching to break barriers for women, laying groundwork for today’s feminist rhetoric.

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  • Woman with dark hair and blue shirt sits at a table with a folder and box in front of her.

    Bentley Fellowships Announced

    The Bentley Historical Library is proud to announce the awardees for its annual fellowship program. The fellowships support the use of Bentley collections by K-12 educators, artists, and researchers.

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  • A woman wearing a graduation cap and gown with her hand in the air as if waving.

    Early Graduate Education at U-M

    This year, U-M’s Rackham Graduate School celebrates its 150th anniversary. Thousands of U-M students receive graduate degrees each year, but figuring out what constituted a graduate degree, and how to award it, wasn’t always clear cut.

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  • Lucinda Hinsdale Stone at a desk

    A Dangerous Lady

    Lucinda Stone was a passionate advocate for women to be admitted to U-M. The archives show how her work in the face of adversity changed women’s lives across Michigan.

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  • Woman with dark hair and blue shirt sits at a table with a folder and box in front of her.

    New Fellowships Open to Researchers

    Fellowships can be used to explore any Bentley collections in-person. They support artistic inspiration, K-12 curriculum and lesson planning, and publication research.

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  • Staff from the U-M Homeopathic Hospital including men in suits and women in long gowns.

    Fact vs. Fiction

    U-M’s medical faculty pushed back when the state tried to force homeopathy into the curriculum in the mid-1800s. Archives reveal the war between medical fact and fiction.

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  • The Edmund Fitzgerald.

    Shipwreck History

    In a November storm fifty years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior. Ric Mixter’s research into the wreck is ready to help future shipwreck researchers.

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