Brian Williams, assistant director and archivist at U-M's Bentley Historical Library, is a font of U-M facts and trivia. History nuts and people who like old stuff, quite literally, should enjoy this episode of “Listen in, Michigan."
Here are links to some of the extraordinary items that Williams:
Fielding Yost’s 1901 contract to become the first football coach at
U-M https://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhl/x-bl017701/bl017701
The 1817 draft of the act to establish the Catholepistemiad or University of Michigania https://quod.lib.umich.edu/w/walker/874.0001.002/1#?s=0&cv=0
The original notecards Lyndon B. Johnson used to deliver his “Great Society” speech to U-M graduates in 1964
Bentley Historical Library https://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhl/x-hs13927/hs13927
The Bentley Historical Library
https://bentley.umich.edu/
