Month: January 2018

Massive Data Project Will Help People Identify Enslaved Ancestors Michigan State’s ‘Enslaved: The People of the Historic Slave Trade’ will combine available historical data on slavery into one searchable hub  

Lewis Siegelbaum’s review of Stephen Kotkin’s Stalin: Volume 2- Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 is in the January 19 issue of the Times Literary Supplement. There also is a podcast of an interview with Professor Siegelbaum about his review that will go live on Thursday, January… Continue Reading Siegelbaum in Times Literary Supplement

On January 25 Laura Fair will present a paper at Georgetown University, Doha, Qatar’s Indian Ocean Symposium: Oceanic Circularities; Arts, Ideologies and Identities in the Indian Ocean.

Dr. Sidney Lu recently published the article “Japanese American Migration and the Making of Model Women for Japanese Expansion in Brazil and Manchuria, 1871-1945” in Journal of World History, vol. 28, no. 3&4 (December 2017). The article can be found here http://muse.jhu.edu/article/683144.

See the story in MSU Today History and Matrix receive $1.5M Mellon Foundation grant to build extensive database on the historic slave trade research on historic slave trade January 9, 2018 EAST LANSING, Mich. – Michigan State University, supported by nearly $1.5 million from The… Continue Reading History & Matrix awarded Mellon Foundation Grant