Learn why the Union and League were designed as highly gendered spaces and how the architects achieved their vision of separate spaces for men and women. Featuring Bentley Associate Director Nancy Bartlett and Bentley Project Archivist Sarah McLusky.
U-M Professor Juli Highfill discusses defending democracy during the Spanish Civil War, including the impact of the Great Depression and the rise of fascism on the U-M student body. Hosted by the Bentley Historical Library as part of its Making Michigan series.
U-M Professor Stephen Ward discusses the impact of the Black Power movement and struggles around race, nationally and locally, at U-M during the 1960s and 1970s. Hosted by the Bentley Historical Library as part of its Making Michigan series.
In this installment of the Making Michigan series, Gary Krenz sits down (virtually) with U-M Professor Andrei Markovits and Kenneth Garner to discuss how Jewish students lived at the University of Michigan in the first four decades of the 20th century, how they were integrated, and how they made this a good place for them but also how there were limits to this bliss.
Celebrate the legacy of Willis C. Patterson as the Bentley Historical Library receives his donation of papers. This conversation was hosted by Bentley Director Terrence McDonald, with greetings from U-M President Mark Schlissel, and remarks from Vice Provost Robert Sellers, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance Dean David Gier, and School of Music, Theatre, and Dance Professor Louise Toppin.
Why is an observatory in Ann Arbor named for Detroit? What made the Detroit Observatory a milestone for the University of Michigan and American higher education? How was the Observatory central to the growth of American astronomical science, when did it lose that role, and how did it get it back? And who were some of the people who made it all happen? Gary Krenz of the University’s Bentley Historical Library will explore these and other questions in this talk held at the Ann Arbor District Library in October 2019.
2020 marks the 150th anniversary of the admission of women to U-M. Andrea Turpin, associate professor of history at Baylor University and author of the recent award-winning book, A New Moral Vision: Gender, Religion, and the Changing Purposes of American Higher Education, 1837-1917, recently spoke on the struggle for women's admission at U-M and the experiences of women students here during the early decades of coeducation.
A lecture by Terry McDonald, Director of the Bentley Historical Library and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History at the University of Michigan, in which he discusses how understanding of "liberal arts" evolved over time and where it stands now, with implications for where it might be headed.
A lecture by Greg Kinney and Brian Williams of the Bentley Historical Library investigates the 19th-century origins of athletic competition at the University of Michigan.
