History Walking Tour at University of Michigan

Join educators for a History Walking Tour at the University of Michigan as part of the Zinn Education Project’s 5th Annual Teach Truth Day of Action.

We'll meet at Panera on North University at 10 am (777 N University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48104) and begin our tour from there. Please wear comfy shoes and clothing as we'll walk and talk from various sites across central campus, making a stop at the Medical School, and then walking back past the dormitories to the Trotter Multicultural Center on State Street.

As this is an inclusive history tour, we'll be focusing on the stories that aren't as prevalent in mainstream narratives. In addition, our tour of the Medical School will focus on paintings by Robert Thom that explore the history of medicine.

Here are two resources to help you get started with sites on campus. The first is student-generated campus tour called Paths of Protest.  The second is a digital companion I have been working on called A Disorientation Tour of University of Michigan. For more context, you can also watch a talk I gave about early medical student education at the University of Michigan, The Stories We Tell: Making Historical Memory at Michigan Medicine.