Everything and Everyone has a History
Dale Mize with Erin Crider and her children at Crider Farms, a family farm in Farmer City
Graduate student Dale Mize works with The Land Connection to promote sustainable agriculture
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign history doctoral student Dale Mize is using storytelling to help raise awareness about food sourcing through summer research interviews on three area farms that use sustainable practices and regenerative land use systems. He is one of five students...
Grace Maria Eberhardt
Notes from the Field: Graduate student Grace Maria Eberhardt follows the trail of the Eugenics Record Office
In the summer of 2024, graduate student Grace Maria Eberhardt traveled to the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Long Island and the American Philosophical Society archive in Pennsylvania. She was one of the recipients of...
Justin Wytmar
Undergraduate student Justin Wytmar awarded Beinecke Scholarship
Justin Wytmar, who recently completed his junior year at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, is among 20 students nationally who were awarded the Beinecke Scholarship.  The Beinecke award supports graduate study in the arts, humanities...
Russell Wigginton on the cover of Illinois Alumni magazine
Russell Wigginton (PhD, '01, History) featured in Illinois Alumni Magazine
Russell Wigginton (PhD, '01, History) is the president of the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee. A profile about his career was the cover story of the Summer 2024 issue of Illinois Alumni magazine....
Ernest Crim III at convocation
Watch a video celebrating our convocation ceremony
This year Ernest Crim III (BA, '09, history) was our convocation speaker. Crim is the founder of Crim’s Cultural Consulting. Through his work, he speaks to companies, middle and high schools, educators, colleges, and community groups and uses Black historical narratives to empower and educate...
Terri Chettiar
Professor Teri Chettiar selected as Conrad Humanities Scholar
The Department of History is proud to announce professor Teri Chettiar has been selected as a Conrad Humanities Scholar. The Conrad Humanities Scholars Award...

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Black Music

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

HIST 104

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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

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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

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Constructing Race in America

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

HIST 281

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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

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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Mary Jodlowski

Alumni Spotlight: Margaret Jodlowski (2012)

Margaret Jodlowski is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics at the Ohio State University.