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Featured Projects
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Season 5, Episode 4: Constructed Categories: Syriac Christians and the Immigration Act of 1924
One person, missionary EW McDowell, influenced the fate of Syriac Christians ahead of the US Immigration Act of 1924. In this episode, Hannah Roussel interviews James Wolfe about McDowell, whose writings and testimony before Congress opened up the dialectics about the nature of the category “Asiatic.”
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Season 5, Episode 3: “Peace to the World”: Lessons from the Soviet Antiwar Underground
Alexander McConnell talks with Olga Medvedkova, a Soviet antiwar activist whose arrest garnered worldwide attention in 1983. In light of the second-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, what can we learn from Medvedkova and the Soviet peace movement?
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Resistance in Early American History
Based on research at the William L. Clements Library, students curated a digital exhibit that provides windows into resistance in early American history.
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Far Out! Ann Arbor in the 60s from JFK to Earth Day
Students in History 294 developed this historical walking tour focusing on the history of the 1960s on campus.
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Season 5, Episode 2: Waiting with Mozart
Join Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1777 as he waits, in an aristocrat’s antechamber in Munich, for a conversation that could change his life. What did it mean to wait in the past? Who waited? How did it shape society and culture?
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Season 5, Episode 1: Curating the Remnants of Enslavement: A Conversation with Jason Young
In this episode, Paige Newhouse interviews Jason Young, co-curator of Hear Me Now: the Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina, a traveling exhibit housed at the University of Michigan Museum of Art centering enslaved artisans and the stoneware they produced.