Our Michigan is a family scrapbook—a collection of stories and images of people who created the cherished institution that has set the world’s leading example of public higher education. Richly illustrated, it presents the University of Michigan’s story in a mosaic of fascinating details—leaders who steered the university; faculty who changed students’ lives; alumni who changed the world; favorite places and treasured moments. It is both a repository of our collective memory and a source of inspiration as the university embraces the challenges of its third century.

James Tobin is the author of several books, including Ernie Pyle’s War, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography. He is a professor of journalism at Miami University in Oxford, OH.

Kim Clarke is a senior writer at the University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library. She manages, edits, and contributes to the U-M Heritage Project, an immersive, digital collection of stories about the university's past.

Deborah Holdship is the assistant director at Michigan News. She is the editor of Michigan Today, an award-winning online magazine distributed monthly to over a quarter million U-M alumni, faculty, and staff worldwide.