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The great raid
One night during the Great Depression, police stormed U-M's fraternities.
Sports
Victors valiant
Wolverines romp through the NCAA tournaments.
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- Exactly how much housework does a husband create?
- U-M Heritage: How to date women, circa 1943
- University of Michigan 2008 Graduation (Story and Video)
Health
Choosing the correct athletic shoes
A U-M expert's advice for comfort, performance and injury prevention.
Talking about words
Woo-woo words
You can do the cha-cha on a choo-choo to Walla Walla.
Talking about movies
David Duke and 'Birth of a Nation'
How did D.W. Griffith's film become a recruiting tool for the Ku Klux Klan?
Talking about movies—archive
Film history and movie reviews from Michigan Today
- David Duke and "Birth of a Nation" (June 2009)
- Celebrity autobiographies (May 2009)
- M-ollywood (April 2009)
- Children vs. the world (March 2009)
- '60s activism (February 2009)
- Year-end highlights (January 2009)
- All about Oliver (November 2008)
- Pine vs. Holly (October 2008)
- Summer 2008's best movies (September 2008)
- What is Bollywood? (July 2008)
- Movies during wartime (June 2008)
- The future of movies (May 2008)
- The talkies' first great screenwriter (April 2008)
- Courtroom drama (March 2008)
- 40 years of violence and revolution (February 2008)
- Tying Hitchcock to the stage (January 2008)
- Julie Christie: then, now and forever (November 2007)
- The camera as storyteller (October 2007)
- Memories of film greats (September 2007)
- Film ratings: praise and criticism (July 2007)
- Not just the facts, ma'am (June 2007)
- Seasonal fare (May 2007)
- Journeys back: movies about return, and my visit to Vietnam (April 2007)
- Views of Vietnamese Life in Post-War Vietnam Films (March 2007)
- Journeys back: movies about return, and my visit to Vietnam (February 2007)
- Robert Altman at the University of Michigan (January 2007)
- "The Queen" and Film Monarchy (December 2006)
- Movie magic (November 2006)
- The fall 2006 film season (October 2006)
- Mixed genres (September 2006)
- Summer 2006 movies (August 2006)
- Demanding movies, part 2 (July 2006)
- Demanding movies, part 1 (June 2006)
- Japanese cinema surfaces (May 2006)
- Remembering the French new wave (April 2006)
- Angry Young Men and Kitchen Sink Realism (March 2006)
- Film theory applied, part 2: Cowboy "renovation" and "Brokeback Mountain" (February 2006)
- Biopics (January 2006)
- Film theory applied: "Junebug" and "The Passenger" (November 2005)
- Rudolf Arnheim's "Film As Art" (October 2005)
- Susan Sontag's "On Photography" (September 2005)
- Ron Howard: Emerging Auteur (July 2005)
- "Is this where we came in?" Moviegoing in the 1950s (June 2005)
- Creative geography (May 2005)
- When movies hit the road (April 2005)
- Observations on screen acting (February 2005)
- "Shrek 2" and "The Incredibles": family fun for adults (January 2005)
- When movie characters get intimate with the audience, that's "direct-camera address" (December 2004)
- Fright movies (October 2004)
- Culture and politics in 2004's movies (September 2004)
- Memorable World War II movies (June 2004)
- Documentary technique: the long good close-up (May 2004)
- Film, religion and the first amendment (April 2004)
- Women on the screen, then and now (February 2004)
- Little films (January 2004)
- 2003 holiday family films (December 2003)
- Betsy Blair (November 2003)
- 100 years of movies (October 2003)