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Season 3, Episode 3: The Real Housewives of Medieval London
Housekeeping is not timeless, but subject to economic changes, and demographics, and ideological beliefs. Why is housekeeping associated with women? And how do global disasters influence housekeeping and amplify patriarchy?
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Season 3, Episode 3: Transcript
[Reverb Effect Introduction] Allie Goodman: Care for children, food for families, clean clothes, a healthy living space. These fundamental tasks, which so often feel invisible or unseen, keep our worlds revolving. In other words, housework is the foundation of any society. In the United States, these tasks fall predominantly to women, which has disproportionately prevented them from…
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Detroit Under Fire: Police Violence, Crime Politics, and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Civil Rights Era
This multimedia digital exhibit documents patterns and incidents of police brutality and misconduct in the city of Detroit during the era of the modern civil rights movement.
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“Hold Me Up”: Narrative Histories of Black Community Building in Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti, 1910s-1970s
This public history project offers five narrative histories that illustrate and animate the histories and labor of local Black residents of Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti.
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Mental Health at Michigan
This exhibit explores the ways in which race, gender, sexuality, and nationality all influenced the experience, treatment, and future of student mental health at the University of Michigan.
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The Philippines and the University of Michigan, 1870-1935
This research project explores materials contained at the University of Michigan’s Bentley Historical Library related to the US colonial period in the Philippines.
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Walking in the Steps of Black Women: A History of the University of Michigan
Black female students have been attending the University of Michigan for over a century. This project explores the social world of Black students—investigating their lives before, in, and after their time at U-M.
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Give Earth a Chance: Environmental Activism in Michigan
Give Earth a Chance traces the origins of the environmental movement in the state of Michigan and in modern America
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Go Blue: Competition, Controversy, and Community in Michigan Athletics
Today, sports at the University of Michigan are big business and sometimes big controversy. Inspired by these developments, the researchers of this year’s Michigan in the World project have taken a critical look at the history of sports at U-M.
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“A Dangerous Experiment”: Women at the University of Michigan
The year 1817, when the University of Michigan was founded, holds immense significance for the history of the university—except for women. It wasn’t until 53 years later, in 1870, that women were officially admitted to U-M.
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Season 2, Episode 6: Surviving Patriarchal Violence at Home: Incest Victims in the Progressive Era
In a country that had little to no understanding of incest as patriarchal violence, what happened to girls who fought for freedom from sexual abuse?
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Season 2, Episode 6: Transcript
Hayley Bowman: Content warning: this episode discusses child sexual abuse, rape, and incest. In 1894, the nation’s leading textbook of legal medicine asserted that child rape was “the most frequent form of sexual crime” in the United States.[1] Physicians encountered venereal disease among young girls so frequently that they described it as an “epidemic.”[2] Ten was the age…
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Season 2, Episode 5: A Prison by Any Other Name: Imagining Childhood Criminality in 1920s Chicago
How can childhood histories help us understand the dynamic between children, authority figures, and the spaces they inhabited in 1920s Chicago? How can we best hear their voices?
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Season 2, Episode 5: Transcript
Hayley Bowman: Childhood. A time of play, imagination, and make-believe. Of innocence and safety. A distinct period of life signaled by markers, things designated “for kids!” Toys, clothes, even venues and restaurants designed with children (and profits) in mind. Entertainment, apps like Netflix and movie studios like Pixar, cater specifically to children, providing content deemed appropriate…
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Season 2, Episode 4: Mother Caravan: Disappearance and Resistance along the Migrant Trail
When their children began to disappear en route to the United States, a small group of mothers banded together to demand that their children be returned to them alive.