Browse Exhibits (4 total)
50 Years of Title IX at Central Michigan University
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 called for gender equality in all aspects of the educational experience at institutions accepting federal funding.
Title IX expanded over the decades to include a range of experiences beyond academics. In the months and years after the passage of Title IX, it encompassed athletics and other extracurricular activities, and in 2011, the Obama administration broadened Title IX to include issues of sexual violence on college campuses.
Bird's-eye View Collection
Panoramic maps were a popular way to depict US cities during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Known as bird's-eye views, these maps were drawn representations of a city from an aerial view. While not drawn to scale, they generally depicted major landscape features, buildings, and streets.
The Clarke Historical Library has gathered the largest collection of Michigan bird's-eye views in the state. These views have been scanned to be made more widely available. Researchers wanting a reproduction of these images should contact the Clarke Historical Library.
J.O. Lewis Indigenous Portraits
In 1819, J.O. Lewis started working as a government employee, traveling with Michigan territorial governor, Lewis Cass, as part of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. As part of his duties, J.O. Lewis was tasked with painting official portraits of Tribal leaders in an effort to preserve a record of Native American history, what was believed, at the time, to be a vanishing culture. Lewis accompanied Cass to four major treaty expeditions where he painted Potawatomi, Ojibwe, Odawa, Winnebago, Shawnee, Sioux, Miami, Fox, and Iowa leaders.
The Clarke Historical Library has a total of 84 lithograph portraits of Great Lakes Tribal leaders, most of which are from the Lewis Aboriginal Portfolio and others being from McKenney and Hall’s work.
The John Greenleaf Whittier Correspondence Collection
This collection features over 50 letters to John Greenleaf Whittier (and several to his sister, Elizabeth Whittier) from prominent abolitionists, poets, orators, politicians, and friends. Also featured is one letter from Whittier to the Women's Suffrage Association.