Michigan has enjoyed a very long romance with its campus squirrels, certainly since the days of the Diag as a scrubby wheat field.

In the years after the Civil War, springtime in Ann Arbor generated U-M’s first sporting craze: “base ball.”

Before the attack on Pearl Harbor pulled the U.S. into World War II, U-M suspended a band of student peaceniks advocating neutrality.

On the 100th anniversary of the Helen Newberry Residence, we offer a snapshot of the philanthropist who impacted thousands of young women.

The rule barring women from the Michigan Marching Band was dropped in 1972 — not with a bang, but a whisper.

In 1925 two lonely rebels said no to the formidable Fielding Yost in a contest of ideas that still echoes today.

The end of World War II sent U-M’s enrollment soaring, which put housing at a premium — creating a unique college experience for many GIs.

Michigan’s “Queen of Women” held the line on in loco parentis through the ’50s, until changing mores and student protests forced an abdication.

Weirdly gruesome posters created for U-M’s inter-class “rush” mingled themes of mayhem and mirth at the turn of the 20th century.