Founder’s Day Ice Cream Social
Celebrate the Clements Library's 103rd birthday with free ice cream!

The Clements Library website includes events, exhibits, subject guides, newsletter issues, library staff, and more.
The Clements Library website includes events, exhibits, subject guides, newsletter issues, library staff, and more.
Celebrate the Clements Library's 103rd birthday with free ice cream!
Jackson examines the breadth of Black responses to white oppression, beginning with the resistance of her own ancestors.
Guided Tour of the U-M Clements Library. Join us for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements' early American history collections. Highlights include viewing of Benjamin West's iconic painting "Death of General Wolfe," a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage's papers, and viewing our current exhibit Up, Up, and Away: A […]
Hear the Declaration of Independence brought to life through a public read-aloud in celebration of its 250th anniversary.
Step into the world of secret agents and coded messages with the William L. Clements Library! Families are invited to explore real “spy letters” from the American Revolution and see how people shared information in plain sight—without anyone else realizing.
Celebrate America's 250th with a guided tour of the Clements Library featuring Revolutionary War-era documents before attending U-M President Domenico Grasso's reading of the Declaration of Independence at 6 pm on the Diag. Highlights include Benjamin West's iconic painting "Death of General Wolfe," a trunk that once housed British General Thomas Gage's papers, and the […]