This talk examines the ways that the 20th century cookbook, The Way to a Man’s Heart: The SettlementCook Book, became a beloved Jewish icon. Filled with non-kosher recipes, the cookbook has been called “unabashedly Jewish” and “a Jewish Joy of Cooking” by generations of reviewers and cooks, yet dismissed… Continue Reading Leonard Gilman Lecture on Jewish Culture: “Recipes for the Melting Pot: Reading The Settlement Cook Book” with Nora Rubel

To modern audiences, feminists and abolitionists are heroic figures who fought for liberty and defended human dignity. Yet standard accounts rarely consider these figures in their full complexity. Throughout the nineteenth century, radical reformers fought for women’s rights while summoning the spirits of dead people.… Continue Reading Sex, Science, and Seances: The Radical Politics of Nineteenth-Century Progressives with Rachel Walker

Gillian Macdonald will be presenting "Digital History Research and Artificial Intelligence: Buy In or Cash Out?" as part of MSU's Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering's Colloquium. How can artificial intelligence be incorporated into digital history? The answer is that it already has been,… Continue Reading Digital History Research and Artificial Intelligence: Buy In or Cash Out? with Gillian Macdonald

Please join us for Gender and Space in the Early Modern World, a workshop organized by Profs Shayan Rajani (#MSHistory) and Samira Fathi (Art History). The workshop features two panels of speakers exploring the intersections of gender, architecture, and social spaces across diverse global contexts.… Continue Reading Workshop: Gender and Space in the Early Modern World

From Phillis Wheatley Bread out of Detroit to the Ida B. Wells “Light of Truth” monument in Chicago, public memorials of African American women are the result of the intentional efforts from Black communities to create safe spaces of uplift and resist historical erasure. Dr.… Continue Reading Celebrating Black Women Legacies in the Midwest