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.
Welcoming David Sepkoski to the Department of History at Illinois!Professor Sepkoski is the Thomas M. Siebel Chair in History of Science at Illinois
Professor Marsha Barrett answers the question: What should we make of the ‘68 Chicago Democratic Convention now?
Illinois History Graduate, Madeline Alvendia, Awarded National Fellowship
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.
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!
Brandon Nakashima went on a fruitful research trip this summer, preparing for his senior thesis this
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 Ed
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- 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 decided to venture further.
- 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.
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.
