Subject Guides: Inclusive History Project-Dearborn: Origins & Trajectories

Origins & Trajectories

Definitions

"Origins & Trajectories houses projects that focus on the trajectory of the university over time, with a focus on examining received histories, recontextualizing existing narratives, and centering heretofore ignored stories." (IHP 2024)

"Investigating U-M's origins across space and time and how they matter to our history and present." (IHP 2023)

Resources

Unsettling the University by Sharon Stein
ISBN: 9781421445052
Publication Date: 2022-12-06
"Unsettling the University invites readers to confront universities' historical and ongoing complicity in colonial violence; to reckon with how the past has shaped contemporary challenges at institutions of higher education; and to accept responsibility for redressing harm and repairing relationships in order to reimagine a future for higher education rooted in social and ecological accountability."
Crafting a Class by Elizabeth A. Duffy; Idana Goldberg
Call Number: LB2351.2.D84 1997
ISBN: 9780691016832
Publication Date: 1997-11-23
"By tracing the development of competitive admission and financial aid policies at a selected group of liberal arts colleges,Crafting a Classexplores how institutional decisions reflect and respond to broad demographic, economic, political, and social forces..."