HistoryLabs
U-M HistoryLabs bring together faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates as investigators and lab members in long-term research projects—often in collaboration with community partners.
U-M HistoryLab students become coauthors of digital humanities and multimedia projects aimed at diverse public and academic audiences, gaining valuable career-related experiences in research, digital technology, and collaboration.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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Environmental Justice Lab
The multiple components of the Environmental Justice Lab all feature collaborative student research to document the history of environmental activism, justice, and sustainability in Michigan and beyond.
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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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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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Immigrant Justice Lab
A collaborative public humanities project that produces a wide range of scholarly artifacts for and with community partners working in immigrant advocacy in 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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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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Looking for Asian Americans at U-M and in Michigan
This HistoryLab explores the two centuries of history and legacy of Asians, Asian-Americans, and the Pacific-Islanders in the state of Michigan, especially at the University of Michigan.
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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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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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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.