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 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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Paths of Protest: Histories of Student Activism on Campus

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History 294 students developed this historical walking tour to center students and community members as the agents of change on campus

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Detroit River Story Lab

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Policing and Social Justice Lab

This lab addresses contemporary debates over mass incarceration and police misconduct, ultimately creating a comprehensive database of thousands of police-civilian encounters and homicides in the city of Detroit and beyond.

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Repositioning the Uganda Museum

This Mellon Foundation-backed project will repatriate objects from the University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology to the Uganda Museum in Kampala.

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