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Olivia Barron received a 2025 Ronald Raven Annual Award, a scholarship providing a tuition stipend and a 135-hour internship in the Wayne State University Archives. At the end of their internship, Olivia wrote this summary of their experience.

Ronald Raven Award Internship: A Retrospective

When I was a freshman history student at Wayne State University, the History Club went on a tour of the Walter P. Reuther Library to see its collections and the archive’s inner workings. I cannot begin to describe how excited I was by this experience, and how much it impacted the rest of my academic career up to the present.  read more »

This blog post is part of a series celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Reuther Library's building.

“We have, at the present time, one large round table which will, at best, handle four researchers,” writes Dr. Philip Mason, founder of the archives at Wayne State University, as he describes the capacity for scholars in Purdy-Kresge to President William Rea Keast.  read more »

The Walter P. Reuther Library is proudly celebrating its 50th year on campus! Built in 1975, our building’s brutalist architecture and gleaming windows have been a beacon for researchers across the world, and we want to show off in style.

Join us as we kick off this week with an incredible event with Alan Reuther to celebrate his new book, Roy Reuther and the UAW: Fighting for Workers and Civil Rights.  read more »

The Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, invites applications for the Ronald Raven Award to begin Spring 2025. The award consists of $2,500 to go toward tuition, fees, or other educational expenses and an internship of 135 hours at the Walter P. Reuther Library. Applications are due by Friday, February 14, 2025.  read more »