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
Dr. Paul Cornely, a 1931 graduate of the University of Michigan Medical School, devoted his life to championing equal health care for all, leading to the desegregation of America’s hospitals. From enrolling at U-M in 1926 to his 39 years at Howard University to the establishment of the Paul B. Cornely Fellowship in 1988, read about Dr. Cornely's extraordinary impact here.
Black history
On the night of March 2, 1965, one hundred U.S. and South Vietnamese heavy bombers crossed into North Vietnamese air space to pound supply routes between Hanoi and the south. It was the first time U.S. forces had taken the offensive in the war between South and North Vietnam.
Vietnam War
