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Workers from the Twin Cities Transport & Recovery company load the Christopher Columbus statue onto the back of a truck. Photo by Liam McMahon '20.

Christopher Columbus and the erasure of history

June 11, 2020

Founder Esther Suzuki with a group of friends during her time at Macalester. Suzuki graduated from Macalester in 1946 and is remembered, along with Catharine Lealtad, with the Lealtad-Suzuki Center. Photo courtesy of Macalester Archives.

Mac founder Esther Suzuki shaped mission of multiculturalism

February 8, 2018

Dr. Catharine Lealtad being presented her second honorary degree “Doctor of Humane Letters” in 1983.
Photo courtesy of Macalester Archives.

Catharine Deaver Lealtad, a hidden gem of Macalester’s history

February 1, 2018

Way Back at Mac: Mac the Scot dancing on turf near you since ’05

October 13, 2017

Way Back at Mac: reminiscing on logo lingo

September 29, 2017

Uncredited Mac Weekly photo of Springfest 1977.

Way Back at Mac: The Best of the Fest

April 7, 2017

Way Back at Mac: Macalester’s history of protest–a capstone feature

March 10, 2017

Usually, this column dwells entirely in olden days, the yesterdays, the years past, past lives and general times of antiquity — you get the idea. However, this week we’ll come back to the future (actually the present, but th...

Way Back at Mac: 45 years of Black History Month at Mac

February 24, 2017

Black History Month in the United States originated in the mid-1920s with Carter G. Woodson, a Harvard graduate and historian, who along with the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History established the first Black Hi...

An excerpt of a 1944 issue of The Mac Weekly during finals week. Photo courtesy of Macalester archives.

Way Back at Mac: the history of finals week

December 9, 2016

Way Back at Mac: The Ghost from Halloween Past… frightening facts about Halloween at Mac

October 28, 2016

Senator Bernie Sanders addresses Macalester in 1987 in Weyerhaeuser Chapel. Photo by Heidi Freund, reprinted from the April 3, 1987 issue of The Mac Weekly.

Way Back at Mac: Campus was “Feeling the Bern” in 1987

April 8, 2016

Antonin Scalia, then nominee for the Supreme Court, speaks at a 1986 Macalester conference on the Constitution and liberal arts. Photo courtesy of the Macalester Archives.

Way Back at Mac: Scalia launches his career on campus (sort of)

March 4, 2016