Project Highlight: The Travels of Lady Nijo: Pilgrimage, Travel, and Tourism in 13th and 14th Century Japan
May 23, 2024
The Confessions of Lady Nijo is a work written around 1307 by Lady Nijo, a Japanese noblewomen turned Buddhist monk.
Project Highlight: Archive of Malian Photography
May 23, 2024
Archive of Malian Photography provides access to preserved & digitized collections of five important photographers in Mali.
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Project Highlight: Marsh Time
May 23, 2024
Corey Marsh Ecological Research Center (CMERC) is a 400-acre parcel of land in Bath, Michigan, that is as noteworthy for its past as its future. The plot is the only remaining portion of the original MSU land grant that is non-contiguous with the East Lansing campus.
Project Highlight: Mapping Michigan Menus
December 4, 2023
Mapping Michigan Menus began last summer with an exploration of available ways of “mapping” a food or drink menu, funded by a Digital Humanities Seed Grant.
Project Highlight: The Green Book
November 15, 2023
The Green Book was a travel guide published between 1936 and 1966 that listed hotels, restaurants, bars, gas stations, etc. that Black travelers would be welcomed.
Project: Citing Slavery
October 18, 2023
The legal profession must confront its role in slavery. Acknowledging and discussing the modern citation of slave cases is a first step.
Project Highlight: Humanities Commons
June 28, 2023
Humanities Commons is an open, not-for-profit social and professional network and knowledge exchange environment for scholars, researchers, and practitioners across the humanities and around the world.
Project Highlight: The Current
June 28, 2023
The Current is a unique publication that allows students to participate in every aspect of creating a printed magazine, from writing to editing and design.
Project Highlight: What America Ate
June 26, 2023
This is an interactive website and online archive about food in the Great Depression, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. What were Americans eating in the Depression?
Project Highlight: Comics as Data
June 20, 2023
Comics as Data is an ongoing collaborative project that examines library catalog data to explore geographies of publishing and library collecting policies in North American comics.