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Join us at the Clements Library to celebrate the publication of “The City on Three Lakes: A Maritime History of Charlevoix & the Surrounding Region,” co-authored by David L. Miles and Clements Board Member Ole Lyngklip. Explore the Clements collections that helped bring the book to life: Curator Sierra Laddusaw will share featured Michigan maps, and Assistant Curator Jakob Dopp will showcase original photo postcards from the David V. Tinder Collection. Come discover the history behind the pages!
Join the staff of the Clements Library and students from Turn Up Turnout to learn about American voting history and voting as a student at the University of Michigan! Peruse the exhibit “Who Counts? A History of Voting in America,” develop a voting plan for this November, do election-themed crafts, and play a game of Jeopardy to test your knowledge on the past and present of voting in America.
Join the staff of the Clements Library and the U-M History Club to learn about American voting history and the Revolutionary War-era materials held right here on central campus. Peruse the exhibit “Who Counts? A History of Voting in America,” develop a voting plan for this November with students from Turn Up Turnout, do election-themed crafts, and play a game of Jeopardy to test your knowledge on voting and Revolutionary War history while snacking on pizza!
Historian and author of An Actor’s Tale: Theater, Culture, and Everyday Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States, Amy E. Hughes introduces us to playwright and actor Harry Watkins for an alternative history of nineteenth-century theater. Hughes asks uncomfortable questions about the existence, predominance, and erasure of White male mediocrity in U.S. culture, both in the […]
Join us this Homecoming Weekend for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections.
Join us this Parent and Family Weekend for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections.
Join us this Parent and Family Weekend for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections.
Join us this Parent and Family Weekend for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections.
In her book, Agents of Survivance: Indigenous Women Teachers in the Boarding School Era, Anne Ruggles Gere complicates and enriches established accounts of the Indian boarding school era and what preceded it by looking closely at the largely ignored Indigenous women teachers in these schools. Focusing on Sarah Winnemucca, S. Alice Callahan, Angel DeCora, and […]
Bookseller and collector Garrett Scott joins Julia Miller and Clements Curator of Books Emi Hastings to discuss the Garrett Scott Collection of Vernacular Bindings recently acquired by the Clements Library. Scott’s working definition of “vernacular binding” is “an alteration or addition to the book, pamphlet, or leaf, when this alteration is made by an owner […]
