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A powerful exhibit in the MSU Broad Art Museum, Americans and the Holocaust: A Michigan Perspective Exhibit, will close November 17. The exhibit explores how historical understanding and personal narratives can guide us in shaping a more empathetic and inclusive future. Developed through a collaboration… Continue Reading Last Week to View MSU’s Americans and the Holocaust: A Michigan Perspective Exhibit
The History Department at Michigan State University welcomes Dr. Marissa Knaak as an assistant professor (fixed-term), specializing in late 19th- and early 20th-century labor and women’s history in Britain and Germany. Dr. Knaak comes to the department fresh from MSU’s graduate history program. Prior to that, she lived in Washington, D.C. and worked in customer relations at the George Washington… Continue Reading Get to Know the New MSU Historians: Dr. Marissa Knaak
In 1984, the police killing of Eleanor Bumpurs during an eviction shocked New York City and ignited one of the first anti-police brutality campaigns centered on a Black woman. Four decades later, LaShawn Harris, associate professor of history, revisits Bumpurs’ life and legacy in her new… Continue Reading MSU Historian Explores How Eleanor Bumpurs’s Killing Reshaped New York City’s Fight for Justice
Sean McDaniel, a 2019 Ph.D. graduate from Michigan State University’s Department of History, was recently featured in Túrkistan, a Kazakh newspaper. The interview was conducted by journalist Duisenali Alimakyn, who discovered Dr. McDaniel’s dissertation while pursuing his own graduate studies at George Washington University. Alimakyn was… Continue Reading MSU History Alum Interviewed by Kazakh Newspaper
The History Department at Michigan State University welcomes Dr. Peter Thompson as an assistant professor of history, specializing in science, technology, and the environment. Dr. Thompson comes to the department from MSU’s Lyman Briggs College, where he taught for three years, and prior to that, he… Continue Reading Get to Know the New MSU Historians: Dr. Peter Thompson