2024-12-19
- The Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has appointed professor Peter Fritzsche to its permanent faculty. CAS professors are selected based on their outstanding scholarship, and the appointments are one of the highest forms of campus...
2024-12-19 - Editor's note: This story originally appeared on the Humanities Research Institute website. Humanities in Action (HIA) is a semester-long, paid community engagement program for humanities students at the University of Illinois. This collaboration between We CU Community Engaged Scholars and the...
2024-12-16 - Editor's note: This story originally appeared on the Prairie Research Institute website. Amanda Quealy is a sophomore majoring in history and anthropology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. As an undergraduate researcher at the ...
2024-12-12 - The Midwest played a central role in the growth of Black freedom movements in the 20th century. It was a key site for incubating and expanding the ideas of political activist Marcus Garvey, not only in the U.S., but globally, said University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professor of African American studies and ...
2024-12-09 - We are pleased to announce that graduate student You Lan has been awarded the 2024 CCWH/Berks Graduate Student Fellowship Award. She will receive $1000 to support the completion of her dissertation. Lan's dissertation examines how Chinese diasporic communities in early 20th-century California and Guangdong navigated,...
2024-12-02 - As an oral historian, Illinois history professor Yuridia “Yuri” Ramírez records the stories of people who have never been written about in history books. “These people have, in some ways, made the most impactful legacies in their communities, and people don’t know...
2024-11-29 - After 36 years of teaching at the University of Illinois, our colleague Kai-wing Chow retired in May 2024. Chow is a highly esteemed historian of China with an international reputation. His areas of expertise include Chinese intellectual history, history of printing and publishing, and new cultural history. His works have been...
2024-11-19 - Editors note: This piece originally appeared on the Prairie Research Institute Website. Meet Alexander Rushing, who usually goes by Sasha, a Visiting Scientific Specialist in Historic Mining & Geology at the...
2024-11-18 - Professor Peter Fritzsche recently wrote an op ed in The Forward about the 2024 presidential election. Voters elected Hitler because they liked his fascist promise. Trump’s reelection repeats that history "The end of the presidential campaign was characterized by broad charges that President-elect Donald Trump is a fascist. Vice President Kamala Harris and her surrogates invited...
2024-11-08 - When professor Leslie J. Reagan entered her graduate program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison she and the other students in her cohort were told they would never get a job. The field of women's history was virtually nonexistent at the time. “I thought, that's okay, I’ll work in a women's bookstore. Little did I know that most of those independent bookstores would disappear and that...
2024-11-07 - The Department of History is pleased to announce that professor Marc Hertzman was awarded an honorable mention for the prestigious James Alexander Robertson Prize for the best article published in the Hispanic American Historical Review by the Conference on Latin American History. His article, ...
2024-11-05 - Professor Rosalyn LaPier wrote an op-ed in The Conversation about President Biden's apology for the US government policy of sending Native American children to Indian boarding schools. My family lived the horrors of Native American boarding schools–why Biden’s apology doesn’t go far enough I am a direct descendant of family...-
2024-11-04 - Newsweek recently interviewed historians about the loyalty of Hitler's generals. Professor Peter Fritzsche weighed in. "Most of the military—from soldiers to officers to generals—were loyal and ideologically aligned with Hitler. The price of disloyalty was very high. There were differences over tactics, but these sorts of disagreements were also considered questions of...
2024-10-21 - Imagine it’s 1913 and you’re in a tiny basement restaurant called Polly’s in Greenwich Village, New York. Change is in the air and intellectuals, artists, and activists gather to debate the issues of the day: women’s suffrage, labor unions, socialism, birth control, and anarchism. The nightly crowd includes figures like Emma Goldman, Margaret Sanger, Bill Heywood, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Charlotte...