U-M History faculty and students are active in the public sphere, publishing collaborative digital scholarship, developing museum exhibits, writing op-eds for major newspapers, partnering with communities on research projects, leading globally reknown foreign policy blogs, and more.
Our department-led public engagement projects demonstrate how history matters in the wider world. They transform students into public scholars, helping them develop transferable skills that can apply to a range of careers. Undergraduate and graduate students collaborate with faculty to produce content for programs like U-M HistoryLabs, the Reverb Effect podcast, and Michigan in the World. Explore these projects and more in the U-M History Showcase.
From public history projects that engage broad audiences with historical scholarship to cutting-edge digital humanities initiatives with community partners, U-M History is redefining what it means to “do” history at a top-ranked public university. This is history at work.
