The first class of the “MIT and Slavery” undergraduate research project ran in the fall of 2017. Set in motion by MIT President L. Rafael Reif with Melissa Nobles, the Kenan Sahin Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, the course was developed and taught by Craig Steven Wilder—the Barton L. Weller Professor of History and the nation’s leading expert on the links between universities and slavery—in collaboration with Nora Murphy, the MIT archivist for Researcher Services.