{"id":9,"date":"2021-05-10T14:58:13","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T14:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showcase.lsa.umich.edu\/history\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2022-12-13T14:45:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T14:45:10","slug":"homepage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Homepage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull is-light\" style=\"min-height:70vh;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1324\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 799px) 200vw, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-710\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/showcase_cover.jpg\" data-object-fit=\"cover\"\/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<h1 class=\"alignwide has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"u-m-history-is-engaged-with-the-world\">U-M History is engaged with the world.<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Our faculty and students make an impact beyond the university, sharing their cutting-edge research with audiences and partners around the globe. Learn more about this work in the U-M History Showcase.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-03627597 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:12px\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull tw-mb-0\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-query alignfull tw-mt-2 homepage-post-grid has-subtle-background-color has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center tw-mb-2 has-text-color has-h-2-font-size wp-block-heading\" id=\"featured-projects\" style=\"color:#655a52\">Featured Projects<\/h2>\n\n\n<ul class=\"is-flex-container columns-3 history-post-card-block wp-block-post-template is-layout-flow wp-block-post-template-is-layout-flow\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-2089 showcase type-showcase status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-featured-homepage-showcase category-reverb-effect category-season-6 contributor-cheyenne-pettit contributor-joseph-w-ho contributor-talitha-pam authors-cheyenne-pettit authors-talitha-pam department_or_unit-history format-podcast funding_sources-department-of-history project_date-527 entry\">\n<figure class=\"alignwide tw-mt-2 tw-mb-0 wp-block-post-featured-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/showcase\/season-6-episode-2-when-they-come-back-to-communities-you-see-life-reparations-in-uganda\/\" target=\"_self\"  ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/IMG_0257.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Season 6, Episode 2: \u201cWhen They Come Back to Communities, You See Life:&#8221; Reparations in Uganda\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%;max-width:1000px;object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/IMG_0257.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/IMG_0257-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/IMG_0257-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/IMG_0257-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n<h2 class=\"tw-mb-1 tw-mt-1 wp-block-post-title has-large-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/showcase\/season-6-episode-2-when-they-come-back-to-communities-you-see-life-reparations-in-uganda\/\" target=\"_self\" >Season 6, Episode 2: \u201cWhen They Come Back to Communities, You See Life:&#8221; Reparations in Uganda<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div style=\"font-size:16px;\" class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">In this episode of Reverb Effect, we follow the journey of Ugandan cultural artifacts from removal to repatriation, and what happens when they return home. Tracing historical materials and their layered afterlives as they moved from colonial Africa to the Cambridge Museum\u00a0and back to the Uganda National Museum, we explore how collecting trajectories stripped objects&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-2023 showcase type-showcase status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-featured-homepage-showcase category-reverb-effect category-season-6 contributor-angie-gaabo contributor-cheyenne-pettit contributor-joseph-w-ho contributor-richard-bachmann authors-cheyenne-pettit department_or_unit-history format-podcast funding_sources-department-of-history project_date-527 entry\">\n<figure class=\"alignwide tw-mt-2 tw-mb-0 wp-block-post-featured-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/showcase\/season-6-episode-1-capturing-change-to-build-a-future-the-woodbridge-oral-history-archive\/\" target=\"_self\"  ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/IMG_9841-2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Season 6, Episode 1: Capturing Change to Build a Future: The Woodbridge Oral History Archive\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%;max-width:1000px;object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/IMG_9841-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/IMG_9841-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/IMG_9841-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/IMG_9841-2-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n<h2 class=\"tw-mb-1 tw-mt-1 wp-block-post-title has-large-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/showcase\/season-6-episode-1-capturing-change-to-build-a-future-the-woodbridge-oral-history-archive\/\" target=\"_self\" >Season 6, Episode 1: Capturing Change to Build a Future: The Woodbridge Oral History Archive<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div style=\"font-size:16px;\" class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">What happens when a neighborhood tells its own story? In this episode of\u00a0Reverb Effect, we step into Detroit\u2019s Woodbridge neighborhood to hear firsthand accounts of resilience, memory, and change \u2013 from postwar life and the 1967 uprising to art, activism, and shifting pressures of today. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-1958 showcase type-showcase status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-featured-homepage-showcase category-reverb-effect category-season-5 contributor-gregory-parker authors-cheyenne-pettit authors-lediona-shahollari authors-matthew-hershey authors-paige-newhouse department_or_unit-history format-podcast funding_sources-department-of-history project_date-495 entry\">\n<figure class=\"alignwide tw-mt-2 tw-mb-0 wp-block-post-featured-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/showcase\/season-5-episode-6-does-it-matter-legacies-of-the-first-world-war\/\" target=\"_self\"  ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/Paul_Nash_Wire_sq.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Season 5, Episode 6: &#8220;Does It Matter?&#8221;: Legacies of the First World War\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%;max-width:1080px;object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/Paul_Nash_Wire_sq.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/Paul_Nash_Wire_sq-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/Paul_Nash_Wire_sq-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/Paul_Nash_Wire_sq-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/Paul_Nash_Wire_sq-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n<h2 class=\"tw-mb-1 tw-mt-1 wp-block-post-title has-large-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/showcase\/season-5-episode-6-does-it-matter-legacies-of-the-first-world-war\/\" target=\"_self\" >Season 5, Episode 6: &#8220;Does It Matter?&#8221;: Legacies of the First World War<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div style=\"font-size:16px;\" class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Nationalism. Emerging technology. Militarization. Destroyed bodies. Total war. In this episode, three historians reconsider the dominant themes of the First World War\u2014which are as relevant today as they were a century ago. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-1940 showcase type-showcase status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-featured-homepage-showcase category-reverb-effect category-season-5 contributor-gregory-parker authors-cheyenne-pettit authors-enrieth-martinez-palacios authors-paige-newhouse authors-sophie-wunderlich authors-talitha-pam department_or_unit-history format-podcast funding_sources-department-of-history project_date-495 entry\">\n<figure class=\"alignwide tw-mt-2 tw-mb-0 wp-block-post-featured-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/showcase\/season-5-episode-5-not-just-for-scholars-democratizing-the-archives\/\" target=\"_self\"  ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/peoplearchive_sq-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Season 5, Episode 5: Not Just for Scholars: Democratizing the Archives\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%;max-width:1080px;object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/peoplearchive_sq-1.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/peoplearchive_sq-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/peoplearchive_sq-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/peoplearchive_sq-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/peoplearchive_sq-1-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n<h2 class=\"tw-mb-1 tw-mt-1 wp-block-post-title has-large-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/showcase\/season-5-episode-5-not-just-for-scholars-democratizing-the-archives\/\" target=\"_self\" >Season 5, Episode 5: Not Just for Scholars: Democratizing the Archives<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div style=\"font-size:16px;\" class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Archives are central to the work of historians. But they are not just for scholars. In this episode, we talk with an archivist, an archival theorist, and a historian, all working to democratize these spaces, what they hold, and who can access them. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-1917 showcase type-showcase status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-featured-homepage-showcase category-reverb-effect category-season-5 contributor-gregory-parker authors-hannah-roussel authors-james-wolfe authors-paige-newhouse department_or_unit-history format-podcast funding_sources-department-of-history project_date-495 entry\">\n<figure class=\"alignwide tw-mt-2 tw-mb-0 wp-block-post-featured-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/showcase\/season-5-episode-4-constructed-categories-syriac-christians-and-the-immigration-act-of-1924\/\" target=\"_self\"  ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"747\" height=\"747\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/Syriac_women_from_Mardin_sq.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Season 5, Episode 4: Constructed Categories: Syriac Christians and the Immigration Act of 1924\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%;max-width:747px;object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/Syriac_women_from_Mardin_sq.jpg 747w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/Syriac_women_from_Mardin_sq-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/Syriac_women_from_Mardin_sq-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 747px) 100vw, 747px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n<h2 class=\"tw-mb-1 tw-mt-1 wp-block-post-title has-large-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/showcase\/season-5-episode-4-constructed-categories-syriac-christians-and-the-immigration-act-of-1924\/\" target=\"_self\" >Season 5, Episode 4: Constructed Categories: Syriac Christians and the Immigration Act of 1924<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div style=\"font-size:16px;\" class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">One person, missionary EW McDowell, influenced the fate of Syriac Christians ahead of the US Immigration Act of 1924. In this episode, Hannah Roussel interviews James Wolfe about McDowell, whose writings and testimony before Congress opened up the dialectics about the nature of the category \u201cAsiatic.\u201d <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-1888 showcase type-showcase status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-featured-homepage-showcase category-reverb-effect category-season-5 contributor-gregory-parker authors-alexander-mcconnell authors-paige-newhouse department_or_unit-history format-podcast funding_sources-department-of-history project_date-495 entry\">\n<figure class=\"alignwide tw-mt-2 tw-mb-0 wp-block-post-featured-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/showcase\/season-5-episode-3-peace-to-the-world-lessons-from-the-soviet-antiwar-underground\/\" target=\"_self\"  ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1569\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/logo_sq-1568x1569.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Season 5, Episode 3: &#8220;Peace to the World&#8221;: Lessons from the Soviet Antiwar Underground\" style=\"width:100%;height:100.05%;max-width:1995px;object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/logo_sq-1568x1569.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/logo_sq-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/logo_sq-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/logo_sq-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/logo_sq-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/logo_sq-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/logo_sq.jpg 1995w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n<h2 class=\"tw-mb-1 tw-mt-1 wp-block-post-title has-large-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/showcase\/season-5-episode-3-peace-to-the-world-lessons-from-the-soviet-antiwar-underground\/\" target=\"_self\" >Season 5, Episode 3: &#8220;Peace to the World&#8221;: Lessons from the Soviet Antiwar Underground<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div style=\"font-size:16px;\" class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Alexander McConnell talks with Olga Medvedkova, a Soviet antiwar activist whose arrest garnered worldwide attention in 1983. In light of the second-year anniversary of Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, what can we learn from Medvedkova and the Soviet peace movement? <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-d0b3c9c8 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/all-projects\/\" style=\"border-radius:5px;padding-top:15px;padding-right:15px;padding-bottom:15px;padding-left:15px\">View All Projects<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"tw-no-title.php","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"showcasewpadmin","author_link":"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/author\/showcasewpadmin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":null,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":59,"href":"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1567,"href":"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/1567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}