Project Highlights

“Africa Past and Present” Podcast Audience Grows

afripod In August the MATRIX/History Department Africa Past and Present podcast, co-hosted by Peter Alegi and Peter Limb, set new records for unique visitors and for total number of visits in a single month. With four months left (and six more shows) in 2009, download stats are already nearly double the downloads from all of 2008. ...

Women in Science: New digital media archive

Gabrielle Emilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil's image from Institutions de Physique (1740) The Women in Science website is a new digital media archive that uses KORA, MATRIX’s digital repository application, to deliver text access to the written works of several women scientists, including the works of the marquise Du Châtelet, and biographies written by leading historians of science. The website is available through the participation and support of ...

American Black Journal: Documenting Detroit & American History from African-American Perspectives

American Black Journal, originally titled Colored People’s Time, went on the air in 1968 as a televised public forum for black citizens during a historic moment of racial turmoil across the nation. This website is part of a long-term collaboration between Detroit Public Television and Michigan State University to preserve and present the crucial and historic materials of the American Black Journal television program.

matrix.msu.edu/~abj