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Oct 12
William L. Clements Library

Join the staff of the Clements Library and the U-M History Club to learn about American voting history and the Revolutionary War-era materials held right here on central campus. Peruse the exhibit “Who Counts? A History of Voting in America,” develop a voting plan for this November with students from Turn Up Turnout, do election-themed crafts, and play a game of Jeopardy to test your knowledge on voting and Revolutionary War history while snacking on pizza!

"From 1776 to the Ballot Box" with logos for the Clements Library, Turn Up Turnout, and the U-M History Club. Background image: electoral map of the US, 1888.
Oct 16
ZOOM

Historian and author of An Actor’s Tale: Theater, Culture, and Everyday Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States, Amy E. Hughes introduces us to playwright and actor Harry Watkins for an alternative history of nineteenth-century theater. Hughes asks uncomfortable questions about the existence, predominance, and erasure of White male mediocrity in U.S. culture, both in the […]

Graphic advertising the Clements Bookworm with the cover of Amy E. Hughes' book "An Actor's Tale."
Oct 16

Homecoming Weekend Guided Tour

October 16, 2026 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM ET

Clements Library

Join us this Homecoming Weekend for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections.

"Discover the Clements Library" in front of two ornate arches
Oct 23

Parent and Family Weekend Guided Tour – 10 am

October 23, 2026 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM ET

Clements Library

Join us this Parent and Family Weekend for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections.

"Discover the Clements Library" in front of two ornate arches
Oct 23

Parent and Family Weekend Guided Tour – 1 pm

October 23, 2026 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET

Clements Library

Join us this Parent and Family Weekend for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections.

"Discover the Clements Library" in front of two ornate arches
Oct 23

Parent and Family Weekend Guided Tour – 4 pm

October 23, 2026 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM ET

Clements Library

Join us this Parent and Family Weekend for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections.

"Discover the Clements Library" in front of two ornate arches
Nov 20
ZOOM

In her book, Agents of Survivance: Indigenous Women Teachers in the Boarding School Era, Anne Ruggles Gere complicates and enriches established accounts of the Indian boarding school era and what preceded it by looking closely at the largely ignored Indigenous women teachers in these schools. Focusing on Sarah Winnemucca, S. Alice Callahan, Angel DeCora, and […]

Graphic advertising the Clements Bookworm with the cover of Anne Ruggles Gere's "Agents of Survivance: Indigenous Women Teachers in the Boarding School Era"
Dec 18
ZOOM

Bookseller and collector Garrett Scott joins Julia Miller and Clements Curator of Books Emi Hastings to discuss the Garrett Scott Collection of Vernacular Bindings recently acquired by the Clements Library. Scott’s working definition of “vernacular binding” is “an alteration or addition to the book, pamphlet, or leaf, when this alteration is made by an owner […]

Graphic advertising the Clements Bookworm with a picture of a stack of books with various types of amateur binding repairs.