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
Virginia Patton Moss, who died in August at the age of 97 after a long life and career in Ann Arbor, lives again this month on millions of screens. As she always liked to say, “I’ve been in more homes than Santa Claus.”
ann arbor community
After months of combat in Vietnam, Tom Carhart arrived on the University of Michigan's campus, the culture of which was defined by opposition to the war, to begin law school.
Vietnam War
At a time in which the University of Michigan was "exclusively an intellectual male club of Regents, faculty, and students," Elizabeth "Lizzie" Farrand broke all those norms and made a mark on the University’s history, and not only because she was one of the first two women ever to work there.
women at U-M