Summer. Ann Arbor. 1969. The Vietnam War is raging. That’s the backdrop for Love and Honor, a new movie rich with maize and blue talent.

To say that wunderkind songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul ended the year 2012 on a high note is a bit of an understatement. Just six years after graduation, the longtime partners wrapped their first foray on Broadway with the music and lyrics for A Christmas Story, based on the 1983 film.

As a professor, musician, and founding curator at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Bruce Conforth has established an award-winning career sharing his passion for performance and American culture.

Enjoy this video of a special group of Wolverines who represent a proud tradition in Ann Arbor: The Alumni Marching Band.

Come ride along on this journey of radical self-expression and self-reliance.

Hill Auditorium has mesmerized artists and audiences for 100 years. Everyone from Vladimir Horowitz to Bob Marley has graced its stage.

“Hollywood, as I predicted, is not a nice place to go out in.” So wrote Orson Welles upon moving from New York to Los Angeles in 1939. Welles’ original correspondence to his first wife is part of a recent acquisition by the University’s Special Collections Library. U-M is now home to the most extensive international archive on the filmmaker, actor, director, and writer, who is perhaps best known for the movie Citizen Kane.

Related: View a Slideshow of Images from the Collection

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The University’s Board of Regents in September approved the renaming of the art-and-design school to the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

On a frigid Moscow night, William Revelli and the Michigan Symphony Band launched one of the most ambitious cultural exchanges in history. The year was 1961.