Heritage/Tradition
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Black Fridays of yore
Weirdly gruesome posters created for U-M’s inter-class “rush” mingled themes of mayhem and mirth at the turn of the 20th century.
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Trophy life: The Little Brown Jug
New book celebrates the myths, mysteries, and mania surrounding college football’s oldest trophy rivalry, born of a discarded water jug in 1903.
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If North Hall could talk
A campus landmark closes after more than a century of service in health care, the military, and more.
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The Negro-Caucasian club
In the 1920s African-American and white students joined hands to fight racial bias — but the University was unsympathetic.
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The vanishing of Schoolgirls' Glen
Reclaiming one of the most precious and vulnerable gems in Nichols Arboretum.
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That old house
For more than a century, a spooky little fortress behind an iron gate has mystified passersby in all its gothic glory.
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Ann Arbor vs. the flying saucers
In 1966 a sudden wave of UFO sightings—many by extremely credible witnesses—turned local eyes skyward and brought national attention to Ann Arbor.
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Mr. Cook’s women
Traces of an irascible millionaire’s views of the “fair sex” linger all through the Martha Cook Building a century after its construction
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Humor of the 1890s
In the pages of Wrinkle, we get glimpses of student life in the 1890s—at least as it appeared to the cocky male editors of that short-lived Michigan humor magazine.
