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Election Day Closure, November 5, 2024

The Reuther Library will be closed in observance of Election Day on Tuesday, November 5th. We will reopen Wednesday the 6th. See you at the polls!

As always, feel free to submit questions and requests via email at 
reutherreference@wayne.edu and we will answer as soon as we return.

Folklore Friday: Halloween Edition, v.3

(2207_3) Elmwood Cemetery, Detroit, Michigan, 1939

This is the time of year that we love to indulge in sharing spooky tales with one another. In Southeastern Michigan, there is no lack of supposedly haunted places–many of which make an appearance in the Folklore Archive. The following three stories of haunted places evolved throughout the last 100 years and were recorded and analyzed by students in their field reports.  read more »

Exhibit Announcement: Women of the I.W.W.

(31814) Paterson Strike, Paterson Pageant, New York, 1913

The Reuther Library is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibit in our Leonard Woodcock Gallery: Women of the Industrial Workers of the World. The exhibit celebrates the militant revolutionaries, “rebel girls,”  read more »

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