by Bryan Whitledge 180 years ago, on January 26, 1837, the Detroit Free Press was nearly six years old. The University of Michigan was pu...

by Marian Matyn With continued inclement weather, I thought about Michigan winter activities documented in the manuscript collections in t...

The Clarke Historical Library's upcoming speaker series has been announced. All of our presentations are free and open to the public. Th...

by Marian Matyn In the Clarke Historical Library there are 32 archival paper-based collections that document Christmas in some way. Here t...

by Bryan Whitledge Today marks the 75th anniversary of, as then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt said, "a date which will live in infa...