Alexis Antracoli Named New Bentley Director

The Bentley Historical Library is pleased to announce that the Regents of the University of Michigan have approved Alexis Antracoli as the library’s next director. Antracoli will work with archivists and other professionals overseeing the Bentley’s vast collections.

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African American Scholarships During the Great Depression

During the 1930s and beyond, scholarships gave African American graduate students from southern states the opportunity to come north to study. Read more about one researcher’s quest to learn more about the scholarships and their impact at U-M.

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Before the Black Action Movement

A distinguished panel of U-M African American alumni, representatives of the African American Cultural and Historical Museum of Washtenaw County, and the Bentley Historical Library will discuss the African American presence in Washtenaw County prior to 1970.

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The Mystery of the Unidentified Painting

Who painted it? And why does the Bentley have it? One small piece of artwork frames complex issues about what happens when archival collections contain harmful or racist content. Learn more about the Bentley’s role in a campus-wide reparative curation effort.

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Take a Tour Inside the Archive

Detroit news station WDIV recently visited the Bentley to see some of its treasures and to learn more about how the archive is preserving important documents in Michigan history. We invite you to join us for this behind-the-scenes tour!

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Discovering a Forgery

Watch a recent discussion about how the University’s “Galileo Manuscript” came to be known as a 20th-century forgery.

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The Pride of Michigan

A historian and an artist recently teamed up to create a comic book celebrating Michigan’s first-ever Pride celebration in Detroit, in 1972. “It’s my job to bring to life people we wouldn’t know about otherwise,” the author says.

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