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"Listen In, Michigan" is an audio storytelling feature brought to you by the online alumni magazine, Michigan Today. From historical features and alumni dispatches to campus news and provocative opinions, "Listen In, Michigan" will entertain and inform, helping to keep you connected to the University of Michigan — today.

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Episode 62: The Last Full Measure, featuring Kim Clarke

The Last Full Measure: An American Family and How the United States Brought Home the Dead of World War II (Stackpole Books, 2026), by Kim Clarke University of Michigan Heritage website Michigan Today

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Episode 61: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald, featuring John U. Bacon, BA ’86/MA ’94

Michigan Today: The legend lives on Gordon Lighfoot: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald

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Episode 60: 'The Michigan's' mighty comeback, featuring Jon Fish, BA '95

Mike Legg: Wikipedia YouTube clip: Mike Legg's historic goal, 1996 Zac Bell, hockey Jedi Red Berenson's first champs recall winning it all in Cincinnati 'The Michigan's' mighty comeback Photo Credit: Dale MacMillan

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Episode 59: Quit your life temporarily, featuring Colleen Newvine, MBA ‘05

Newvine Growing website Your Mini Sabbatical: Quit Your Life Temporarily

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Episode 58: We need to make truth our national purpose, featuring Barbara McQuade, BA ‘87/JD ’91

Can we handle the truth? History's most heinous dictators have long relied on disinformation to destroy free societies and claim absolute power over nations. Today's agents of chaos tend to be regular citizens, using social and traditional media as well as artificial intelligence to pollute the information ecosystem with lies and conspiracy theories. And in a sinister twist, modern-day extremists…

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Episode 57: The archivist and the Unabomber, featuring Julie Herrada

In June 2023, the world learned that the notorious "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski had died At 81, the domestic terrorist was undergoing cancer treatment while serving multiple life sentences in a high-security North Carolina prison. For Julie Herrada, news of Kaczynski's death was unexpected but not surprising. What was surprising was the "official pronouncement" he died by suicide. Herrada, the…

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Episode 56: Cinema Ann Arbor, featuring Frank Uhle, BFA '83/MILS '92

Fifth Avenue Press University of Michigan Press Cinema Ann Arbor website The Once Group Andy Warhol's Chelsea Girls Ingmar Bergman

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Episode 55: Truth is stranger than historical fiction, featuring A. Arbour

Ward, Wife, Widow by A. Arbour Music featured in this episode includes " The Yellow and Blue " performed by the Michigan Men's Glee Club. "Sweet Leilani" by Bing Crosby, a 1937 hit for Decca Records (archive.org ) One O'Clock Jump by the Count Basie Orchestra, also released in 1937 (archive.org ) Music of the 20s -- "The Roaring 20s Era: Music Songs from the Top 40 of 1920"

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Episode 54: COVID’s silver lining, featuring Rob Ernst, MD ’91, CHO

Michigan's Well-being Collective: wellbeing.umich.edu Learn more about The Okanagan Charter Rob Ernst bio

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Episode 53: The Greatest Comeback, Featuring John U. Bacon, BA '86/MA '94

John U. Bacon at amazon.com

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