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Season 4, Episode 3: Clesippus and the Candelabrum: Imagining Disability in Ancient Rome
The funerary inscription of Clesippus tells an impressive story of illustrious honors and administrative achievements in Ancient Rome. But there is another story, one of a man who navigated slavery, disability, and the sexual advances of the woman who owned him.
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Season 4, Episode 2: Forging Property from Struggle in South Africa
In 1911, a contested horse race sparked one of the largest movements by black South Africans to reclaim colonized land. How does the history of the Native Farmers Association offer a glimpse into alternate futures of property ownership in South Africa?
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Season 4, Episode 3: Transcript
[Reverb Effect’s theme music, lively and interrogative, plays behind the voice of a narrator, interspersed with historical clips of other voices] Narrator [a woman’s voice]: How do past voices resonate in the present movement? Man A: …hear the stories of your parent’s… Woman A: yeah Man A: …and your grandparents’ and stuff, so I’m living……
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Season 4, Episode 2: Transcript
[Reverb Effect’s theme music, lively and interrogative, plays behind the voice of a narrator, interspersed with historical clips of other voices] Narrator [a woman’s voice]: How do past voices resonate in the present movement? Man A: …hear the stories of your parent’s… Woman A: yeah Man A: …and your grandparents’ and stuff, so I’m living……
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Season 4, Episode 1: Transcript
[Reverb Effect’s theme music, lively and interrogative, plays behind the voice of a narrator, interspersed with historical clips of other voices] Narrator [a woman’s voice]: How do past voices resonate in the present movement? Man A: …hear the stories of your parent’s… Woman A: yeah Man A: …and your grandparents’ and stuff, so I’m living……
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Season 4, Episode 1: Laboring for the Puerto Rican Vote
What happens when ten Puerto Rican men try to register to vote in 1950s Connecticut? Despite a lengthy public debate that ends up at the state supreme court, we don’t even know all ten of their names. How much of their story can we uncover?
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University of Michigan Presidential Campus Tour
This tour was compiled as part of Fall 2020’s Democracy & Debate theme semester, a unique opportunity to reflect on the presidents who have visited campus, and their impact.
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Politics of Academic Freedom
In this HistoryLab, students examined definitions of academic freedom and freedom of speech over time at the University of Michigan.
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Inside the AHA: Race and the Institutional Histories of the American Historical Association
This HistoryLab centers the practice of client-based institutional research focusing on the history of racism and racial exclusion in shaping the American Historical Association.
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Great Lakes Environmental Justice Lab
Students in this HistoryLab published online case studies investigating dangerously polluted places in Great Lakes watersheds.
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Collaborative Research with the DIA
Students in this HistoryLab developed content for the Detroit Institute of Arts Diego Rivera “Detroit Industry Murals” digital teaching project.
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Race, Local History, and Sundown Towns in the United States
In this HistoryLab, students research and write about suspected “sundown towns,” working collaboratively to contribute to a website documenting this history.
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History of the Book
In this lab explore a history stretching from the birth of the modern book in the Middle Ages to its rebirth in the era of print and the digital age.
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Curating African American History at UMMA
This project provides undergraduate students with hands-on experience with a museum exhibition at the University of Michigan Museum of Art.
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Crafting Democratic Futures Project
In this lab, students work collaboratively to create case books on state-sanctioned racial violence for use by community leaders, filmmakers, and the Crafting Democratic Futures working group.