All Projects

  • Understanding Afghanistan

    Understanding Afghanistan

    Students in History 329 worked in teams to analyze and present a historical topic for a wider public audience using ArcGIS StoryMaps and Google Sites.

  • History of Disaster

    History of Disaster

    Students in History 215 analyzed and presented a historical topic for a wider public audience using ArcGIS StoryMaps.

  • Detroit River Story Lab

    Detroit River Story Lab

    An interdisciplinary, grant-funded initiative that partners with regional organizations to reconnect communities with the river and its stories.

  • Living and Dying in Late-Medieval London

    Living and Dying in Late-Medieval London

    Students learned to transcribe fifteenth-century wills from the London Metropolitan Archive, documenting their results in a StoryMaps exhibit that explores life in late-medieval London.

  • Centering the Northern Realms: Integrating Histories and Archaeologies of the Mongol Empire (1200 to 1500 CE)

    Centering the Northern Realms: Integrating Histories and Archaeologies of the Mongol Empire (1200 to 1500 CE)

    An equal collaboration between anthropologists, historians, and linguists and focuses on uncovering the people, practices, and places that existed along the margins of the Northern Realms of the Mongol Empire.

  • American College Students and the Nazi Threat

    American College Students and the Nazi Threat

    This collection shows some of the ways American college and university students reacted to the Nazi regime, World War II, and the Holocaust. These diverse voices point to a wide range of responses on US campuses, including active opposition to Nazism, disinterest, and even sympathy for certain aspects of the Nazi program.

  • Displaced Persons and Postwar America

    Displaced Persons and Postwar America

    Following World War II and the Holocaust, the United States provided aid to hundreds of thousands of European Displaced Persons (DPs). American organizations also helped many DPs immigrate to the US. These sources reveal DPs’ experiences as they encountered Americans and United States policies. Through documents, correspondence, films, and other materials, this collection examines how…

  • Everyday Encounters with Fascism

    Everyday Encounters with Fascism

    Fascism in Germany, Italy, and elsewhere in Europe was not only reflected in politics. In daily activities—entertainment, commerce, and recreation—citizens were confronted with fascist ideals, images, and symbols. This collection of primary sources explores encounters with fascism in day-to-day life during the 1930s, World War II, and the Holocaust.

  • Nazi Ideals and American Society

    Nazi Ideals and American Society

    This collection shows some of the ways that Americans identified with Nazi ideals during the 1930s and 1940s. Some adopted antisemitic views or even expressed allegiance to the Nazi Party. The sources included here explore the societal conditions that made some Americans receptive to parts of the Nazi program.

  • Collaborative Research in the Holocaust

    Collaborative Research in the Holocaust

    Working with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, this HistoryLab develops digital analytical materials based on the museum’s archives for its online educational programming.

  • ReConnect/ReCollect: Reparative Connections to Philippines Collections at the University of Michigan

    ReConnect/ReCollect: Reparative Connections to Philippines Collections at the University of Michigan

    The first project of its kind for Philippine collections, this project offers a new vantage point from which to participate in scholarly conversations around decolonizing collections.

  • Silence, Power, and Injustice: Historical Patterns of Police Violence Against Women in Detroit

    Silence, Power, and Injustice: Historical Patterns of Police Violence Against Women in Detroit

    This investigative report illustrates the patterns of police violence against women by the Detroit Police Department between the 1950s and the 1990s.

  • What Happened to Cynthia Scott? A Brutal Murder, Blatant Coverup, and Cries for Justice

    What Happened to Cynthia Scott? A Brutal Murder, Blatant Coverup, and Cries for Justice

    “What Happened to Cynthia” Scott? is a multimedia investigate report, building on the Detroit Under Fire website, of the police murder and coverup of a 24-year-old African American woman on July 5, 1963.

  • Season 3, Episode 4: Transcript

    [Reverb Effect Introduction] Allie Goodman: In The Devil Wears Prada, Meryll Streep plays the cold, exacting, merciless editor in chief, Miranda Priestly, of Runway magazine. In the film, Priestly hires the fashionably clueless Andy as her assistant at Runway, a magazine rumored to be based on Vogue. And Andy, who took the position because she couldn’t find any…

  • Season 3, Episode 4: The Two Monsieurs

    Season 3, Episode 4: The Two Monsieurs

    In 1836, Monsieurs Pierret and Lami-Housset transformed fashion when they opened the first shirt store in Paris. Their radical feat? They tailored a shirt.