1. “This Michigan of ours”

    Lately it’s been hard to find the steadfast loyalty to Michigan that many of us have felt for much of our lives. Alumnus and ‘Michigan Today’ historian James Tobin considers the ways we can reassert our faith in institutions, including U-M, in good conscience.

  2. The Tappan Oak: A tale of life, death, and rebirth

    On a sad day in November, U-M foresters felled the Diag’s decayed ‘Tappan Oak,’ so named by the Class of 1858. But thanks to a solitary student, that is not the end of the story.

  3. An Uncommon Education: Ep. 2

    Watch ‘An Eye for Science,’ the latest installment in Detroit Public Television’s series about U-M history.

  4. When animals went to school

    What is it about pranksters and our four-legged friends? More than once Michigan’s hallowed halls of learning have hosted actual asses and pigs.

  5. The president's Prussian

    Building an observatory and state-of-the-art telescope at U-M was a scientific master stroke. Politically, however, it proved problematic.