Tag: University of Michigan
Archives Spotlight: Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum
Happy American Archives Month! Throughout October, we’re running a series of “spotlights” on the many locations that make up the National Archives. Have you done research at a Presidential Library? Unlike the other Presidential Libraries, the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library—located in Ann Arbor, Michigan—is geographically separate from the museum, which is in Grand Rapids. [...]
Posted by Nikita on October 19, 2012, under - Presidents, National Archives Near You.
Tags: 1970s, Ann Arbor, Chapstick, Cold War, football, Gerald R. Ford, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum, Grand Rapids, kissinger, military, reaserach grants, research, rockefeller, Seventies, University of Michigan, Watergate
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History in a Cap and Gown
We’re now in the middle of commencement season, and there’ll be many words of wisdom coming from the mouths of speakers: academicians, celebrities, inventors, authors, artists, business people, and political leaders. Sometimes commencement speeches become historic. President John F. Kennedy announced talks for a test-ban treaty in his commencement speech at American University in 1963, and a [...]
Posted by Hilary on May 31, 2011, under - Cold War, - Presidents, - The 1960s.
Tags: "Great Society", American University, commencement, communism, Harvard University, MArshall Plan, Notre Dame University, nuclear testing ban, University of Michigan
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