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Professor Robert Morrissey recognized as a University Scholar

We're pleased to share that professor Robert Michael Morrissey is among five University of Illinois professors who have been named University Scholars in recognition of their excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service. The scholars program recognizes faculty excellence and provides $15...

Notes from the Field: Graduate student Cade Meinel excavates a Roman basilica in Menorca

In the summer of 2024, graduate student Cade Meinel traveled to the Sanisera Archaeological Institute on the island of Menorca. He was the recipient of the 2024 J. David Hoeveler Summer Research Scholarship. Read about...

Professor Robert Morrissey joins College of LAS as Associate Dean for Technology & Online Learning

We’re pleased to announce that professor Robert Morrissey has accepted a position in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences as an Associate Dean for Technology and Online Learning. In this role, he will provide strategic...

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...

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...

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...

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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: Scott Rice (1995)

Scott Rice is the general counsel for the University of Illinois System.