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Project Highlights

Why Digital Technologies and Oral History Belong Together

Oral History in the Digital Age logo The Library of Congress through The Signal: Digital Preservation blog recently posted an article about Doug Boyd, director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries. In the post, Boyd talks about using digital technology to collect, curate, distribute, and preserve oral histories. Boyd recently partnered with MATRIX on ...

Vietnam Project Archive Receives Attention from the Lansing State Journal

The Lansing State Journal recently posted an article entitled MSU, the CIA— and Vietnam. This article contains portions of interviews with the primary investigators for the MSU Group Vietnam Project Archive, a digital preservation and access collaboration between the University Archives & Historical Collections at MSU and MATRIX. This project, which has received significant NEH ...

Grant Funding

The research, education and outreach activities of MATRIX are supported by Michigan State University, by our outreach partners and organizations, and by a variety of funding agencies for specific projects. The following agencies have directly supported MATRIX with grant awards:

Ford Foundation

Institute for Museum and Library Services

Mellon Foundation

Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs

Michigan Department of Education

Michigan Humanities Council

National Archives and Records Administration – National Historical Publications and Records Commission

National Endowment for the Humanities

National Science Foundation

US Department of Education

Teaching American History

  • 2007 “Turning Points in American Freedom”
  • 2005 “MI Freedom”
  • 2004 “Path to the Present: A Model Program to Improve and Support Modern
    American History Teaching in Michigan”
    http://matrix.msu.edu/~okemostah/
  • 2003 “Meaningful Learning in American History”

Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access

US Department of State