U-M’s longest-serving president (1871-1909)—and arguably its greatest—built the nation’s leading public university with friendly charisma and a progressive vision.

Professor Albert Hyma claimed an advantage over other experts on the Renaissance and Reformation. He communed with the dead.

A Space for Music, A Seat for Everyone is a love letter to both Hill Auditorium and the passionate community that has sustained it for a century.

A songwriting contest in the mid-1880s inspired a sensitive young Latin professor to pen the words to Michigan’s wistful and enduring alma mater.

In 1925 students hoped to honor U-M President Marion LeRoy Burton with a tower designed by Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen. But the Great Depression intervened.

Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball in April 1947, but he couldn’t have done it without one Michigan man, Branch Rickey, JD ’11.

Did streakers embody the fading echo of the rebellious ’60s? Or were they harbingers of a conservative backlash?

In August 1959 local police responded to a reported break-in at the Ann Arbor First Methodist Church. Hiding in a tiny space above a broom closet was U-M dropout David Lim. He’d lived there, undetected, since 1955.

The University’s past comes to life at “Michigan Heritage,” an immersive, new website of stories, images, and artifacts.