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Professor Angela Diaz awarded Michael V.R. Thomason Book Award from Gulf South Historical Association

The Department of History is pleased to announce that Professor Angela Diaz has been awarded the Michael V. R. Thomason Book Award from the Gulf South Historical...

Professor Anna Jungeun Lee joins the Department of History at the University of Illinois

This fall, the Department of History is excited to welcome Anna Jungeun Lee to our faculty as an assistant professor. Her primary appointment is in the Department of East Asian Languages and...

Chelsey Smith joins the Department of History as a public humanities post-doctoral fellow

This fall, the Department of History is excited to welcome Chelsey Smith as a public humanities post-doctoral fellow. Smith is a historian of nineteenth-century Jamaican history and her research interests include education, race, and labor in the Caribbean and Latin America. The...

Professor Deepasri Baul joins the Department of History at the University of Illinois

This fall, the Department of History is excited to welcome Deepasri Baul to our faculty as an assistant professor. Professor Baul is a historian of modern South Asia, specializing in urban history, property regimes, and religious...

Graduate student spotlight: How STEM student Grace Maria Eberhardt became a historian

Graduate student Grace Maria Eberhardt didn’t think she would become a historian when she began as an undergraduate student at the University of Puget Sound. She initially wanted to study STEM, but after taking an African American studies class, she became more interested in ethnic studies and the...

Professor Angela Diaz joins the Department of History at the University of Illinois

This fall, the Department of History is excited to welcome Angela Diaz to our faculty as an associate professor. Professor Diaz is a Civil War era southern historian. Her research interests include the Gulf South, U.S. territorial...

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Chart Your Own Path

Our program empowers you to explore your interests and passions within history and gives you the flexibility to pair the major with advanced language study, internships, study abroad experiences, undergraduate research, and community engagement.

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Black Music

From African spirituals to Beyoncé, you’ll answer “What really is Black music?”

HIST 104

The President and the People

A chronological survey of the US presidency that examines individual presidents and the times in which they lived.

HIST 293

A History of Everything: The Big Bang to Big Data

Explore different scales of time and place human history in larger geological, ecological, and cosmic contexts.

HIST 103

Constructing Race in America

Explores the complex and intricate pursuit of multiracial and multicultural democracy.

HIST 281

Madness and Modern Society

Learn how the diagnosis and treatment of "madness" in its many forms has been shaped through the interaction of social, political, economic, and cultural factors from roughly 1750 to the 1990s.

HIST 236

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Conduct Your Own Research

Research is embedded in the history curriculum with an emphasis on transforming students from consumers of history to critical producers of it. All students have access to the resources of the second largest university library in the country.

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Alumni Spotlight: Megan MacDonald (2008)

Megan MacDonald is the Head of Philanthropic Partnerships at Equitech Futures.