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
One of the Michigan’s storied football rivalries had humble beginnings, as a pair of U-M players served to bridge a gap and teach the game to Notre Dame.
Michigan athletics
In 1964, a student organization's decision to invite George Lincoln Rockwell, the self-declared leader of the “American Nazi Party” at the time, to speak at Hill Auditorium sparked mass debate across campus: "Should he be allowed to use a University facility to shout his diatribe?”
campus controversy
After copper miners went on strike in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in July 1913, violence wasn’t far behind. Documents at the Bentley reveal multiple sides of a terrible conflict, and investigations at the highest levels of government to uncover what really happened.
michigan history