Michigan State University

Archive-It Partner Since: Jan, 2011

Organization Type: Colleges & Universities

Organization URL: http://www.msu.edu   

Description:

MSU is one of the top research universities in the world—on one of the biggest, greenest campuses in the nation. Home to nationally ranked and recognized academic, residential college, and service-learning programs, we're a diverse community of dedicated students and scholars, athletes and artists, scientists and leaders. University Archives & Historical Collections of Michigan State University is a place of discovery. More than 150 years of MSU history can be explored, including original letters and diaries, photographs, and oral histories. Our collections span the entirety of MSU’s history and also contain historical materials not related to MSU. Some of our collection highlights include materials that document the physical campus and grounds, early student life, the lumber industry, environmentalism in Michigan, and the Civil War. Michigan State University Libraries Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections unit was established in 1962 with the charge to house, preserve, and make accessible important research collections for educational use. Today, Special Collections holds over 450,000 printed works, numerous manuscript and archival collections, and an extensive collection of ephemera in collection strengths including popular culture, LGBTQIA+ and gender movements, comic art, Africana, Latinx/Chicanx in Michigan, and political activism.