Digital Work

For years, historians at MSU have been producing a wide range of innovative digital scholarships. Funded by external grants and freely available on the web, projects have featured digitization of archival materials, creation of digital galleries and repositories, web curricula for teachers, podcasts, and online communities. MSU History hosts the Lab for Education and Advancement in Digital Research (LEADR) and produces its digital projects in partnership with MATRIX, MSU’s digital humanities and social science center. 

Our digital projects include the following:

Databases, Collections, & Galleries

• Slave Biographies
• Seventeen Moments in Soviet History
• Diversity and Tolerance in the Islam of West Africa
• Islam and Pluralism in West Africa
• African Oral Narratives

Digitization

• MSU Vietnam Group Archive
• What America Ate
• Social History of The Gambia

Online Scholarly Communities

• H-Net
• People’s Republic of China History Group
• Football Scholars Forum

Web Curriculum

• Overcoming Apartheid, Building Democracy in South Africa

Exhibits

• MSU Sports History

Podcast

• Africa Past and Present