Heritage/Tradition

  1. Freedom writer

    In the midst of the civil rights movement, U-M historian Dwight Lowell Dumond published his anti-slavery masterwork. The backlash was ferocious.

  2. Crisler Center at 50

    The ‘house that Cazzie built’ is more than just a sports facility. It’s a palace packed with Michigan memories.

  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. An uncommon education

    University historians collaborate with Detroit Public Television to produce shortform documentary series about U-M’s legacy.

  5. Fractured fairy tale

    U-M’s first black homecoming queen remembers her reign, five decades after relinquishing her crown.

  6. Battle of the bookstore

    In the fall of 1969, students went ‘on strike’ to demand the right to run their own bookstore.

  7. Episode 10: 200 years and counting, featuring Kim Clarke and Gary Krenz

    The University of Michigan’s bicentennial is upon us (2017). What better time to celebrate the legacies and achievements that make Michigan what it is? Listen in, as these two historians share highlights along the two-century timeline.

  8. The boys of '61

    In 1861, the crisis of southern secession turned Michigan’s campus into a cauldron of pro-Union meetings and military drills as students prepared to exchange books for weapons.

  9. There were bells

    The carillon bells in Burton Tower have been tolling for 80 years, but they are only the latest in an astonishingly varied series of bells and chimes making music at U-M.