2.5 linear feet
The Elwood collection consists of sermons and outlines and notes for sermons delivered in Marquette, Fenton, Saginaw, Morenci, Ann Arbor, Port Huron, Ypsilanti, and Flint, Michigan. Also included are sermons on temperance, an essay on Charles Sumner (1866), and a brief history of Sunday School in Morenci, Michigan.
6 microfilms (positive)
These records, microfilmed from originals in the National Archives, consist of official dispatches to the United States State Department from Christiancy in his role as Minister to Peru. Also included are the instructions sent to Christiancy from Washington.
2 microfilms (1 linear foot)
The Isaac Peckham Christiancy collection relates primarily to the period in his career prior to becoming a United States Senator and Minister to Peru. The papers have been arranged into the following series: Background Information; Correspondence; Business, financial, and miscellaneous; Legal files: law practice and Michigan Supreme Court. Of note are letters to his children and business letters from his law partner Robert M. McClelland, Catholic Bishop Peter P. LeFevre and Nathaniel L. Christiancy. In addition, there is an address he gave during the Civil War.
1 envelope
The collection consists of panoramic views of Ann Arbor, Mich. and the University of Michigan campus near East University and South University avenues.
Islamic Center of America series documents the history, administrative services, and community activities of the Islamic Center. There is a significant amount of material related to the planning, construction, and completion of the Grand Mosque and new Islamic Center of America building on Ford Road in Dearborn. The series also contains papers related to the purchasing and selling of property on M-14 in Plymouth Township. Proceeds from the sale of the Plymouth Township property helped the Islamic Center purchase their current property on Ford Road. The series contains correspondence, by-laws and amendments, board minutes, committee notes, donation pledges, membership lists, photographs, newspaper clippings, and financial statements and reports.
The Islamophobia Working Group Records series (266.4 MB) documents the goals and projects of the group from 2015-2019. The series contains administrative information including email correspondence, progress reports, and meeting minutes and agendas. It also features information from IWG's projects to establish safe and accessible reflection rooms on campus and to implement Middle Eastern/North African (MENA) as a demographic category on University materials.
The series also includes information about the IWG's support of John Cheney-Lippold. Cheney-Lippold, a faculty member in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, was disciplined in fall 2018 for refusing to write a letter for recommendation for a student to study abroad in Israel. He cited his participation in an academic boycott of Israel in support of Palestinians as his reason for refusing to write the letter. The series contains letters written by members of the Islamophobia Working Group and other faculty in support of Cheney-Lippold and records media coverage of the controversy.
266.4 MB (online) — 1 archived website
The Islamophobia Working Group records (266.4 MB and 1 archived websites) contains progress reports, email correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes, photographs, student outreach resources, project files, and an archived website. The materials are organized into two series, the Islamophobia Working Group records series and the Islamophobia Working Group website series.
2 linear feet (in 5 boxes)
The collections consists of the files of Detroit News conservation editor Albert Stoll and director of public relations Lee A. White who directed the Isle Royale campaign. The collection consists of correspondence, photographs, clippings, speeches, and other materials relating to Isle Royale and to its importance to the state, and to the effort to make the island a national park.
