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Sorting Through the Trash of Michigan State’s Spartan City: Preliminary Perspectives on the Materiality of the late Post-war Campus (2022)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin D. Akey. Aubree S. Marshall. Jeffrey J. Burnett.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond the Classroom: Campus Archaeology and Community Collaboration" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This talk will explore the history of temporary post-World War 2 veteran student and family housing on Michigan State University’s campus through archival documents and archaeological materials. It will consider how material culture recovered from a trash dump with artifacts dating from the early 1940s to...