By Frank Boles On October 9, the Clarke Library opened its newest exhibit, Tocqueville’s Two Weeks in the Wilderness . The library’s refer...

by Bryan Whitledge What happens when thousands of outstanding students earn degrees from Central Michigan University? They become outst...

By Frank Boles Historical documentation is often an afterthought. People “in the moment” are usually not thinking about history or hist...

By Sam Tibebe Douglass Houghton painting from A History of Michigan in Paintings by Robert A. Thomas. Courtesy of the Clarke Histor...

By Frank Boles On a hot, muggy summer’s evening in mid-Michigan it isn’t hard to dream about escaping to an island somewhere on the Gre...