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Walt Di Mantova’s search for a family tie to the Manhattan Project uncovers unexpected insights about J. Robert Oppenheimer. Records illuminate Lucinda Hinsdale Stone’s relentless fight for women’s education. And the papers of U‑M’s ninth president trace his opposition to the Vietnam War, rooted in an earlier conflict’s devastating loss of young lives.
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Language Lessons
What do you do when the descriptions of archival collections are outdated, even racist? Or when the collections themselves contain harmful content? A new initiative at the Bentley is tackling a strategic, long-term fix.
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Teaching Black History in the Early 20th Century
An adult-education class brought Black history to life in a Depression-era Ann Arbor classroom.
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A Riot, a Murder, and a Psychic
After a U-M student was killed in 1890, a psychic visited town claiming to be able to name the murderer.
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