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Seeking Untold Stories of Hill Auditorium: Share your history with us!
  • Nov. 2025

Seeking Untold Stories of Hill Auditorium: Share your history with us!

Inclusive History Project

Share Your Story to Help Expand the History of Hill Auditorium

The research team for the Inclusive History Project’s Hill Auditorium project is gathering stories that reveal the fuller, more complex history of Hill Auditorium—beyond its celebrated reputation for world-class acoustics and classical music performances. The Inclusive History Project is currently conducting research into these untold histories. We invite anyone with a connection to Hill to help us uncover the experiences, events, and moments that shaped its legacy by sharing your untold stories with us. Learn more about the Hill Auditorium project.

Did you work behind the scenes or on the stage at Hill Auditorium? Were you part of a protest in or outside of the building? Were you a member of a student organization that put on events on Hill’s stage? Did you attend a conference or convocation or teach-in at the auditorium, or were you in the audience during an electrifying speech or performance? If so, the Inclusive History Project wants to hear from you!

We are seeking stories from a wide range of people, including lesser-known stories from workers and union members, members of student organizations, student and community activists, and speakers. If you’d like to share your story, please click the button below and complete the form.

Share Your Story!

After you finish the form, if your response aligns with research areas we’re exploring, a member of our team will follow up with you over email. Your answers will not be shared publicly, but they will be read by staff, faculty, and researchers affiliated with the Inclusive History Project at the University of Michigan. We will not share any part of your story without your written consent.

If you have any questions, you can email [email protected] or call 734-764-7006. Thank you for sharing your history with us.

Image: Black Action Movement: Picketing on Diag in front of Hill Auditorium, 1970, Jay Cassidy, Jay Cassidy photographs, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan Library Digital Collections, © 1970 Regents of the University of Michigan. This work is licensed under CC BY 4.0.