Past Impact Stories

Berkley Sorrells and Jaxson Kaplan-Rudolph are the latest cohort of a student fellowship program that helps preserve and share University of Michigan athletics history.

In 1945, Sarah Elizabeth Ray was denied passage on a steamboat on the Detroit River because she was Black. She fought the injustice, and today her trailblazing civil rights role is being preserved — including through a new collection.

A new collection from the National Conference of Artists (NCA), Michigan Chapter showcases the organization's infrastructure and support for Black artists across the state of Michigan.

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A gift from alumnus Tom Jones will fund undergraduate research and encourage engaged learning.

Filmmaker Sue Marx has Emmys and an Academy Award to her name, and as her new collection at the Bentley shows, she’s never forgotten her roots in Detroit or the truth about what makes a good story. Read more about Marx's pioneering career and her incredible contribution to the Bentley.

The Bentley has digitized the collection of William B. Mershon, a Michigan lumberman in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who also hunted and fished in Michigan. He became a witness first to the bounty of Michigan’s wilderness, and then to the dramatic loss of species.

The collection of Warren Petoskey shines a light on the systemic mistreatment of American Indians, while also revealing the story of how one man found his spiritual calling. Read more about this elder of the Odawa and Lakotah tribes of northern Michigan.

A new online database of The Michigan Daily has made more than 23,000 issues digital and searchable. The high-resolution scans put 125 years of history at users' fingertips. The digitization was a collaboration between the Bentley, Michigan Library, and The Michigan Daily.