From the Archives

Curated archival materials from the Walter Havighurst Special Collections & University Archives and Smith Lane Library in Oxford Ohio explore the campus experiences of African Americans at Miami University. The AMS 301 American Identities class in spring 2021 created the website and its accompanying walking tour with the help of community members.

Online exhibit of photographs taken by Emily Channell-Justice during the 2013 (Euro)Maidan protests in Kyiv, Ukraine. The photographs were taken over the course of several months, from November 23, 2014 to May 2, 2014, and document the early days of the Maidan protests and the aftermath.

Part of the 2025-2026 Humanities Lab, this project brings students, faculty, and community members together to uncover the lives and legacies of several generations of African Americans who shaped Miami University and Oxford. From the foundational labor of free and formerly enslaved African Americans that sustained the university during the antebellum and Reconstruction periods to the emergence of Black student life and leadership in the Jim Crow era, members have engaged in archival research, oral history, and descendant collaboration.