03/21/2023 - From their interdisciplinary approach, Professors Eck and Burgos reexamined the baseball greats by considering their impact on the game through the lens of who, when, and how they played.
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03/21/2023 - After the attempted coup of the Brazilian government last month, Marck Hertzman, associate history professor, decided that he had to change how he taught his class - HIST 405: History of Brazil - for...
01/17/2023 - Yuri Ramirez's "Indigeneity on the Move: Transborder Politics from Michoacán to North Carolina,” traces the movement of P’urhépecha migrants from Cherán, Michoacán, México, to and from North Carolina...
01/12/2023 - As nearly 3,000 scholars gathered over the weekend for the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, even the attempts at institutional lightheartedness carried an edge.
12/21/2022 - “Although some winter solstice traditions have changed over time, they are still a reminder of indigenous peoples’ understanding of the intricate workings of the solar system,” Prof. Rosalyn LaPier...
12/21/2022 - We are delighted to announce the newest issue of the Undergraduate History Journal at Illinois! he issue features work by Illinois history majors on a variety of historical topics.
12/15/2022 - History professor Robert Morrissey wrote in his new book, “People of the Ecotone,” about how the ecology of the tallgrass prairie shaped the culture and created unique opportunities for the...
12/09/2022 - I'm a scholar of Native American history. But my real education came from working with Native people in the present.
12/09/2022 - Members of the History@Illinois community mourn the passing of our beloved colleague and friend, Kathryn J. Oberdeck. Kathy joined the department in 1993 as a specialist in US cultural and...
11/22/2022 - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign history professor Robert Morrissey is working with an interdisciplinary group of scholars, tribal cultural experts and community members on a project that will...
11/01/2022 - On the occasion of the first day of Native American Heritage Month the Department of History is pleased to announce the creation of a new cohort in...
10/24/2022 - Carol Symes, a professor of history and of medieval studies, is the editor of “The Medieval Globe,” a journal based at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. A special open access issue of the...
10/20/2022 - Four from LAS receive honor for mid-career scholars.
10/03/2022 - Dr. Whittington earned an AB from Harvard and an MA in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at Stanford. In 2018 Whittington completed her dissertation, “Forging Soviet Citizens: Ideology,...
09/20/2022 - Tamara Chaplin's upcoming book explores a nearly lost chapter of lesbianism.