View selected items from the world’s foremost archive of international radical social protest movements. "Social protest movements often involve intense passion, so expect to see some edgy and offensive items on display," says Labadie Collection curator Julie Herrada.

The Labadie Collection is the world’s largest publicly accessible research collection covering just about every 19th, 20th, and 21st century protest movement that can be documented on paper, from the French Revolution to Occupy Wall Street. It has served as a resource for thousands of people the world over, from high school students to seasoned researchers, from young activists in search of their roots to documentary filmmakers unearthing eye-catching images. Books, serials, manuscripts, pamphlets, photographs, audio recordings, posters, and political buttons are all part of this eclectic group of materials.

View the exhibit during Audubon Room hours: Mon-Thurs 8:30am-7pm, Fri 8:30am-6pm, Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 1pm-7pm

Two new archival collections focusing on acclaimed filmmaker and actor Orson Welles (1915-1985) were recently added to the U-M Special Collections Library’s already substantial Welles holdings. Selections from the new materials, including correspondence relating to Welles’s never-completed film Don Quixote and several costume designs credited to Welles for The Chimes at Midnight, are on display in the Special Collections Library (7th floor, Hatcher Graduate Library, University of Michigan) now through June 2012.

Special Collections Hours: Mon-Wed 10am-8pm, Thurs-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-noon, Sun closed.

Author Timothy Messer-Kruse will give a lecture on his new book The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists: Terrorism and Justice in the Gilded Age and a reception will follow.

In this controversial and groundbreaking new history, Timothy Messer-Kruse rewrites the standard narrative of the most iconic event in American labor history: the Haymarket Bombing and Trial of 1886. Using thousands of pages of previously unexamined materials, Messer-Kruse demonstrates that, contrary to longstanding historical opinion, the trial was not the “travesty of justice” it has commonly been depicted as. Prosecutors in the trial successfully brought to light a daunting amount of evidence revealing the inner workings of an anarchist conspiracy to spark insurrection by attacking police, and connected their plans to the bomber through a solid chain of evidence. Rather than being an example of “judicial murder,” the Haymarket trial was a tragic case of judicial suicide, as the defense chose to use the trial as a grandstand for anarchism rather than deploy a sound legal defense. Though bumblers in the courtroom, the anarchist lawyers proved adept in the court of public opinion and succeeded in influencing the way historians and activists would remember this event for the next 125 years. Exhaustively researched and forcefully argued, this is a vital new contribution to our understanding of labor history and the world of Gilded Age America.

This program is offered in conjunction with the exhibit in the Audubon Room – The More Things Change…The Labadie Collection’s 100th Anniversary March 16-May 31, 2012

View selected items from the world’s foremost archive of international radical social protest movements. "Social protest movements often involve intense passion, so expect to see some edgy and offensive items on display," says Labadie Collection curator Julie Herrada.

The Labadie Collection is the world’s largest publicly accessible research collection covering just about every 19th, 20th, and 21st century protest movement that can be documented on paper, from the French Revolution to Occupy Wall Street. It has served as a resource for thousands of people the world over, from high school students to seasoned researchers, from young activists in search of their roots to documentary filmmakers unearthing eye-catching images. Books, serials, manuscripts, pamphlets, photographs, audio recordings, posters, and political buttons are all part of this eclectic group of materials.

View the exhibit during Audubon Room hours: Mon-Thurs 8:30am-7pm, Fri 8:30am-6pm, Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 1pm-7pm

Two new archival collections focusing on acclaimed filmmaker and actor Orson Welles (1915-1985) were recently added to the U-M Special Collections Library’s already substantial Welles holdings. Selections from the new materials, including correspondence relating to Welles’s never-completed film Don Quixote and several costume designs credited to Welles for The Chimes at Midnight, are on display in the Special Collections Library (7th floor, Hatcher Graduate Library, University of Michigan) now through June 2012.

Special Collections Hours: Mon-Wed 10am-8pm, Thurs-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-noon, Sun closed.

View selected items from the world’s foremost archive of international radical social protest movements. "Social protest movements often involve intense passion, so expect to see some edgy and offensive items on display," says Labadie Collection curator Julie Herrada.

The Labadie Collection is the world’s largest publicly accessible research collection covering just about every 19th, 20th, and 21st century protest movement that can be documented on paper, from the French Revolution to Occupy Wall Street. It has served as a resource for thousands of people the world over, from high school students to seasoned researchers, from young activists in search of their roots to documentary filmmakers unearthing eye-catching images. Books, serials, manuscripts, pamphlets, photographs, audio recordings, posters, and political buttons are all part of this eclectic group of materials.

View the exhibit during Audubon Room hours: Mon-Thurs 8:30am-7pm, Fri 8:30am-6pm, Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 1pm-7pm

Two new archival collections focusing on acclaimed filmmaker and actor Orson Welles (1915-1985) were recently added to the U-M Special Collections Library’s already substantial Welles holdings. Selections from the new materials, including correspondence relating to Welles’s never-completed film Don Quixote and several costume designs credited to Welles for The Chimes at Midnight, are on display in the Special Collections Library (7th floor, Hatcher Graduate Library, University of Michigan) now through June 2012.

Special Collections Hours: Mon-Wed 10am-8pm, Thurs-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-noon, Sun closed.

View selected items from the world’s foremost archive of international radical social protest movements. "Social protest movements often involve intense passion, so expect to see some edgy and offensive items on display," says Labadie Collection curator Julie Herrada.

The Labadie Collection is the world’s largest publicly accessible research collection covering just about every 19th, 20th, and 21st century protest movement that can be documented on paper, from the French Revolution to Occupy Wall Street. It has served as a resource for thousands of people the world over, from high school students to seasoned researchers, from young activists in search of their roots to documentary filmmakers unearthing eye-catching images. Books, serials, manuscripts, pamphlets, photographs, audio recordings, posters, and political buttons are all part of this eclectic group of materials.

View the exhibit during Audubon Room hours: Mon-Thurs 8:30am-7pm, Fri 8:30am-6pm, Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 1pm-7pm