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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

In the 1920s, brothers Nicholas and Leonard Falcone played opposite sides of the field as rival directors of the Michigan and Michigan State marching bands.

U-M’s chief executives haven’t all been fans of our beloved Wolverines, though President C.C. Little (second from right) enjoyed the Big House dedication in 1927.

In 1874, fresh-soph warfare finally got so out of hand that Michigan’s faculty suspended nearly 10 percent of male students.