At the start of the pandemic, students and faculty from U-M’s History Department collaborated with Bentley archivists to find creative ways to produce a successful research project, even without physical access to archival materials.
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Student films. Journal entries. Tributes to hospital workers. These are just some items in the Bentley Historical Library’s COVID-19 collection that offer a poignant glimpse of the pandemic’s impact on U-M students, faculty, and staff.
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To write his new memoir, multimedia journalist and educator Harvey Ovshinsky had to research his own collection at the Bentley — and ultimately ask himself the tough questions he’d been asking others as a journalist for years.
Harvey Ovshinsky