Dive into the life of writer Betty Smith, who spent years in Ann Arbor with her first husband. During her time in Ann Arbor, she audited playwriting classes and learned from Kenneth Thorpe Rowe.
women at Michigan
In 1961, the Kennedy Ad-ministration sent the U-M Symphony Band to the Soviet Union in hopes of thawing relations between the two countries through the common language of music. Could young musicians succeed as diplomats?
Music
In a light spring drizzle on May 23, 1952, Regent Roscoe O. Bonisteel turned over a spadeful of good farm topsoil just north of the Huron River. Shutters clicked and dignitaries applauded. Construction of the University of Michigan’s most significant expansion since its founding had begun.
campus history
A look back at the earliest collegiate sports on campus in the 19th century.
u-m athletics
Three movies made in the decade after World War II are embedded in the American culture of Christmas — It’s a Wonderful Life (1946); Miracle on 34th Street (1947); and White Christmas (1954). Michigan claims connections — slim ones, OK, but still — to all three.
christmas