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Spring 2011<br />
University Libraries' NewsletterVolume 7, Issue 1<br />
Historic conflict rising<br />
Exhibit examines Michigan prior to Civil War's start 150 years ago<br />
During the mid-1800s every state in the U.S. director of the Clarke Historical Library. “If you<br />
– including Michigan – was preparing for a don't understand the context, you get swept<br />
war that changed the nation forever. away in the rhetoric.”<br />
As America marks 150 years since the start Roy Burlington agrees and is providing his<br />
of the Civil War, the Clarke Historical Library's insight to help with developing a special<br />
new exhibit, “Moving Toward the Precipice: feature of the exhibit: coins and currency<br />
Michigan in the Years Before the Civil War,” used prior to the Civil War. Burlington, a CMU<br />
depicts the state of Michigan in the years biology professor emeritus, is an amateur<br <a title="RefPointVMAG.indd.pdf page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/052b03e2?page=1"> Spring 2011 University Libraries' Newsl</a>
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