Retired U.S. District Judge Avern L. Cohn and his wife, Lois, of Birmingham recently donated more books and items to enhance the collection of the Lois and Avern Cohn Library and Archives, located at HSM's Meijer Center for Michigan History in Lansing. 

The Historical Society of Michigan has made the difficult decision to shift its remaining annual conferences—the Upper Peninsula History Conference and the Michigan History Conference—to a virtual format for 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.