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Digital History

Looking for an interesting way to spend your time this weekend? Here’s a suggestion: travel digitally through the history of Detroit and the University of Detroit Mercy (UDM)! Both the city and the university offer a diverse and interesting past just waiting to be shared. Since the end of the 19th century, each has reflected the changes in the other. The successes and growth of both Detroit and UDM are reflections of the people who live, work, and dream here. Be part of something vital by checking this out....

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Digital Special Collections , , , , , , , Updated: February 20, 2014

Anthony Burns

Those of you who have visited the Black Abolitionist Archive have likely noticed the photograph of a young man named Anthony Burns in the upper left-hand corner of the main page. There’s an interesting history to this young man’s experience that helped to bring to light the depth of the outrage of slavery, and to change the hearts and minds of the citizens of Boston. Through his own words we learn of his plight....

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Black Abolitionist Archive , , , , , , , , Updated: February 5, 2014

William Still — Black Abolitionist

This month we celebrate Black History. As part of that celebration, our DVD of the week (titled “Underground Railroad: the William Still Story”) highlights a book by William Still. As it happens, William Still is one of my favorite Black Abolitionists. He is called an “unsung hero” and that he was. I’d wager that not too many people have heard of him. Yet his speeches, delivered during the late 1850s and early 1860s, are some of the most eloquent I’ve read....

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Black Abolitionist Archive , , , , , , , Updated: February 5, 2014

Time Travel Archive Style

Got a few minutes? How about a few hours? Somewhere in between perhaps? Maybe this weekend you’ve got some free time and are wondering how to spend it. May I suggest spending that time doing something worthwhile? With just a little bit of extra time you can offer yourself an amazing adventure, a wealth of knowledge, and a lot of interesting trivia. Step into the past with a click of button and explore the university’s digital archives. You can choose from a number of eras to visit and learn a lot in the process....

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Digital Special Collections , , , Updated: January 14, 2014

The Existence of God

Since questions regarding life were first asked, thinkers have been seeking to prove the existence of God. Through the ages, various arguments have been put forth on this subject, from Plato and Thomas Acquinas to modern scholars. In the late 1800s, this question was taken on by the students at the University of Detroit. The result was a prize Catechetical Essay published in the July, 1898 edition of the Tamarack....

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Tamarack Archive , , , , Updated: January 7, 2014

The Great Debate of 1898

In the first few pages of the June 1898 issue of the Tamarack, is the Skinner Prize Debate, an interesting argument on U.S. immigration laws. The discussion begins with a resolve: “That the immigration laws of the United States should be made more stringent.” This caught my eye as I was skimming over the offerings in this edition of our new Tamarack archive. From what I remembered from U.S. history, the U.S. during this time was welcoming immigrates with few exceptions. We had a vast country to fill in the late 1800s and those from other countries who sought freedom and boundless beauty were clamoring to populate it....

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Tamarack Archive , , , , Updated: March 7, 2014

Bulletins and Catalogs

As announced at this year’s Convocation, the Course Catalogs and Bulletins digital archive is now available on our Special Collections page. This valuable collection offers the researcher and the curious a glimpse into a structured past that may stimulate memories of hours spent arranging and managing course offerings and scheduling in years past. There is other valuable information to be discovered in these pages, however. Now that the catalog is offered online only, it’s interesting to see how students, pencils and highlighters in hand, once determined how their semesters would be filled. ...

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Course Catalogs & Bulletins , , , , Updated: November 1, 2013

Mercy College Student Newspaper Archive

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The University of Detroit Mercy Library/Instructional Design Studio is proud to introduce you to our newest collection, the Mercy College Student Newspaper archive. Through this collection, we offer visitors a student’s perspective of life on and off campus during its years of publication. Reading through each issue is a great way to travel through time and discover a bit of the history of Mercy College from its beginning to the last day of its final classes. This archive offers a wonderful complement to the wealth of information found in our other digital archives....

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Mercy College , , , Updated: November 5, 2013

95 Years Ago

Ninety five years ago on January 1, 1918, the first Varsity News newspaper was published. This first headline read, “Varsity News Begins Career” and offered its readers enthusiastic reports of the booming economy, new university courses, tidbits about the happenings on campus, and the usual list of advertisers. This newly release chronicle was a sign of the times, a fresh expression of news and information, and a slick example of the technological advances of the day. Before the debut of the Varsity News, however, the focus of communication for the students and faculty of Detroit College was a literary one....

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Varsity News Collection , , , , Updated: April 24, 2014

William Whipper

“Resolved, That the practice of non-resistance to physical aggression, is not only consistent with reason, but the surest method of obtaining a speedy triumph of the principles of universal
peace.” — William Whipper, 1837

Among the many speeches and editorials contained in the Black Abolitionist archive are three lengthy speeches delivered between 1833 and 1837 by William Whipper, black businessman and abolitionist. His were among the first speeches entered into the archive and the ones that had the most profound effect on me. Reading these speeches encouraged the excited feeling of discovery that would stay with me through the entire archiving project. Surely, I felt, I had discovered something that few others had seen. Surely, I thought, here is evidence of the seeds of change that altered the course of this country’s history in the years leading up to Emancipation....

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Black Abolitionist Archive , , , , Updated: September 19, 2013
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