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 fields.
HistoryPassionate about the study of history? You’re in good company.
History major named Rhodes ScholarThomas Dowling, a double-major in history and political science, has been named a Rhodes Scholar.
Placing Illinois in HistoryThe Illinois community experiences two milestones over the next two years: the 150th year anniversary of the founding of the University of Illinois in 2017, followed by the 2018 bicentennial of Illinois’s statehood.
What can I do with a History Degree?There are so many awesome things you can do with a History Degree! Check below to find out.
Welcome to the History Department at Illinois!Clare H. Crowston, Professor and Chair, is delighted to welcome you to History at Illinois. Click below to view her welcome letter!
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.
Slavery and racism played their roles in planting beliefs about race and racial difference, but so did medicine, says Prof. Rana Hogarth in her new book.
More Department News
- The University's Open Illinois resource website provides undocumented and DACA students information and tools that will support their success at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
- Thomas Dowling, a double-major in history and political science, has been named Lincoln Academy Student Laureate Award, which recognizes university seniors for their excellence in curricular and extracurricular activities.
Calendar
HIST 142This lecture and discussion course will explore four great episodes and their enduring historical legacies in modern European history: 1) The Age of the French Revolution; 2) Victorian Europe; 3) World War One: From Origins to Outcomes; and 4) Europe in the Age of Great Dictators.
HIST 120This course provides a survey of the past four centuries of East Asian history from the political and economic heights of the Qing Empire in China, the Choson dynasty in Korea, and the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan through the turbulent decades of imperialism, colonialism, nationalism, and industrialization to the region's resurgence in the 1980s and 1990s.
HIST 483This course examines the development of race in medical and scientific thought; how public health and medical institutions deploy the concept; and the process by which race emerged as a valid, though controversial, topic of scientific and biomedical inquiry.
HIST 200We just added new sections to this methods course, required of all minors and majors.
HIST 203Reacting to the Past consists of elaborate games, set in the past, in which students are assigned roles informed by classic texts in the history of ideas. Register now!
HIST 130This course will look at the history of modern South Asia from 1700 to the present day. Students will be introduced to the histories of the varied cultural, linguistic, social, economic and political formations that constitute modern South Asia.
HIST 253Survey of the major authors, ideas, events, and styles in the cultural and intellectual history of Europe from the seventeenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, focusing on the intellectual traditions of France, Germany, and Great Britain.
