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The Marine Corp Development and Education Awards collection contains two plaques given to Eastern Michigan University in 1971 and 1972.

Abstract The Michigan One-Room Schoolhouse Association (MORSA) records provide examples of the efforts of MORSA between 1994 and 2019 as it pertains to research, publications, and special events. Founded after the first Michigan One-Room Schoolhouse Conference held at Eastern Michigan University in May of 1993, the Association is a “consortium of owners, historians, teachers, students and preservationists dedicated to promoting and preserving these treasured buildings…”and conducts an annual day-long...

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Virginia R. Allan was involved in women's rights and other political movements pertaining to equality. She holds an honorary doctorate from Eastern Michigan University and served as regent of EMU from 1964 to 1974.

Scope and Contents This donation from Louise Kertesz comprises materials related to the composition and publication of The Poetic Vision of Muriel Rukeyser. It includes correspondence, research notes, photocopies of reviews and critical studies of Rukeyser’s works, programs, photographs, and recordings of conversations between Rukeyser and Kertesz.This collection of documents sheds new light on Rukeyser’s life and work. In her correspondence and wide-ranging conversations...

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The Michigan Council on Economic Education (MCEE) records contain materials related to the Michigan branch of the Joint Council on Economic Education. MCEE was founded with the goal of ending economic illiteracy in the state of Michigan.

Abstract The Veterans History Project is an initiative of the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress that was created through an act of the United States Congress in 2000. The local efforts to interview and record veteran oral histories as a part of the Veterans History Project were taken up by several volunteers including this collection’s donor and Ypsilanti Rotary Club volunteer, William “Bill” Vollano and Eastern Michigan University Professor of History JoEllen Vinyard. For over a...

Scope and Contents The Wild Swan Theater collection includes materials related to the form and function of the Wild Swan Theater during its 40 years of operation. Materials are dated from 1980 to 2021 and contain financials, administrative records, and documents related to plays and productions performed by the theater. Included in the collection are photographs, scripts, realia, budgets, contracts, strategic plans, and bylaws.The Wild Swan...

Abstract The Loren D. Estleman papers contains outgoing correspondence, manuscripts, notes and promotional materials dating from 1978-1987. Born September 15, 1952 in Ann Arbor Michigan, Estleman is a graduate of Eastern Michigan University and has had a successful career as an author of detective and Western fiction. The Correspondence series includes carbon copies of all outgoing correspondence and was arranged by the creator both...