10/10/2018 - On September 27, 2018 the History department hosted its annual Alumni Career Night. This year the department welcomed Melissa Hatfield, Brian Levitsky, Matthew M. Thomas, and Jackson Turner back to...
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10/10/2018 - Check out this video featuring Marie Lynch and learn more about her company, Skills! ...
10/05/2018 - CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — To be Hopi is to run. “That’s who we are and that’s what we do,” says ...
09/19/2018 - David Sepkoski has spent his career blending the fields of science and history. His father, a paleontologist at the University of Chicago, was his first introduction to the field, and Sepkoski...
08/16/2018 - Brandon Nakashima went on a fruitful research trip this summer, preparing for his senior thesis this year. Brandon was the recipient of the Johannsen Scholarship for Promising Senior Honors Thesis...
08/16/2018 - It was an event that seemed to encapsulate the tumult of the 1960s. Police clashed violently with anti-war protesters in Chicago’s streets. Party factions waged political battle within the hall. What...
08/08/2018 - Professor Mauro Nobili has been awarded a Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for $149,742 for his research project titled, "Restoring the African Past: A Synoptic Edition and...
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07/25/2018 - In a recent issue of Perspectives, the monthly publication of the American Historical Association, Emily Skidmore (PhD, 2011), was quote extensively in an article on the rise of trans...
07/16/2018 - The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences has announced the recipients of its 2018 annual alumni awards. The recipients represent a variety of backgrounds and degrees, from microbiology and...
06/15/2018 - Madeline Alvendia, a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champiagn, has been awarded a James Madison Fellowship by the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation of Alexandria, VA in...
05/31/2018 - A new program in the Department of History is designed to create wider awareness of the careers and opportunities available to doctoral students while...
04/27/2018 - CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The mass spectacle that is now college football started small in the late 1800s, but the issues then were remarkably similar to today: amateurism versus professionalism,...
04/09/2018 - The University of Illinois is reaffirming the significance of the arts and humanities by launching a new graduate fellowship program intended to attract the best and brightest students in these...
02/19/2018 - The narratives of black emancipation and white settlement are usually separated in U.S. and Canadian history, but they are actually intertwined, says Professor Asaka.
