For nearly 100 years after the Civil War, African-Americans who aspired to become doctors had few choices – but the University of Michigan was one of them.

150 years ago, U-M made history when it converted a professor’s house

Today, we take them for granted. Huge university medical centers, filled with patients who travel miles to receive care that’s available nowhere else, from teams of highly specialized clinicians.

One hundred and fifty years ago this month, something extraordinary happened at the University of Michigan. Its effects have reverberated down through history – not only on the campus, but across the state and nation.

Sarah Gertrude Banks, champion of women’s suffrage and health care

An early adopter of radiology at U-M

Dean Vaughan and the 1918 influenza pandemic

Alumna Mary Hancock McLean, pioneering female surgeon

Dr. Howard Markel’s new book about the Kellogg brothers

Four generations at the Medical School

Frederick Novy and the birth of the physician-scientist

A 19th century medical sham

On cigarettes, once ubiquitous in hospitals

The scrapbooks of Frederick A. Coller, M.D.

A university rivalry and the roots of college football