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The addition to Electronic Enlightenment of nearly 500 letters from the Beaumarchais correspondence is a significant event in eighteenth-century studies.

Have you ever sat down for a meal—maybe a holiday meal and had something you loved—maybe, pumpkin pie— but wondered how put the right ingredients together, threw them in the oven, and made something delicious? If anyone knows where to find the answer, it's Juli McCloone, curator of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive at the University of Michigan Library. Juli joins "creative:impact" host Deb Polich to talk about the history of food.

Postcards with images depicting life in Michigan in the early 20th century are part of a collection at the University of Michigan's William L. Clements Library. Researchers are inviting volunteers to help catalog the more than 60,000 postcards in its collection.

For the past 40 years, an Ann Arbor real estate broker gathered thousands of rare books in his Ann Arbor home. Now legally blind, he’s clearing out his shelves and making priceless donations to local libraries.

Michaela Rife writes about using the Chiura Obata to create an assignment as part of the Teaching with Primary Sources workshop.

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Curators and staff Lloyd Brown, Howard Peckham, and Margaret Webber with four trunks of Thomas Gage papers as they arrived at the William L. Clements Library in 1937. Image courtesy: William L. Clements Library “Thos. Gage,” a portrait print of Thomas Gage from the 19th century. Available in the University of Michigan William L. Clements Library image bank. The University of Michigan William L. Clements Library has been awarded a $350,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities...

U-M Clements Library in Ann Arbor accepting fellowship applications Applications due by March 1 Meredith Bruckner, Community News Producer, All About Ann Arbor Published:  Tags:  "The Death of General Wolfe," over 240 years old and 8.5 feet in width, has been installed with new custom lighting on the oak-paneled walls of the Avenir Foundation Room at the University of Michigan William L. Clements Library. (Photo: Austin Thomason | Michigan Photography) ANN ARBOR – The William L. Clements Li...