2019-04-17
- Paris and the world were shocked to see Notre Dame in flames Monday, though its structure apparently has survived. The centuries-old cathedral is much more than an iconic tourist destination, according to Illinois history professors Carol Symes and Tamara Chaplin. They spoke with News Bureau social sciences editor Craig Chamberlain.
2019-04-10 - Professor Kristin Hoganson's latest book "The Heartland" digs into the local history of where she lives and discovers a place very different from what she - and many Americans - expected to find.
2019-04-03 - University of Illinois history professor Marsha Barrett is the recipient of a 2019 fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. er ACLS Fellowship will support work on a book about Nelson Rockefeller, in which she examines his career as New York’s governor to contextualize the decline of centrism and moderation in U.S. politics.- 2019-04-01 - We are pleased to share the outcome of the search for the Susan Welch Dean of the Pennsylvania State University College of the Liberal Arts. Dr. Clarence Lang, interim dean of the College of the Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Kansas, has been appointed to serve as Penn State's next dean, effective July 1, 2019. Dr. Lang has been part of the Kansas faculty since 2011. In addition...
2019-03-28 - March 27, 2019 DPI announces first round of seed funding recipients Nine projects bring together faculty from across U of I System CHICAGO – Helping communities utilize sustainable development strategies, creating a statewide pipeline to train computer science teachers, and integrating people with autism spectrum disorders into the technology and innovation...- 2018-11-18 - You may know him from Peanuts as the German flying ace who always got the best of Snoopy. Perhaps you’ve seen him portrayed as an almost supernaturally skilled war pilot in movies and games reenacting the sky battles of World War I. Some 100 years after his bright-red triplane was shot out of the sky in the waning days of the Great War, the Red Baron has become a glorified symbol of frightening...
- 2018-11-05 - Illinois history professor Jerry Davila specializes in the study of 20th-century Brazil. He also directs the Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies at the U. of I. Brazil took a dramatic turn Sunday with the election of far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro as its new president. This has many of his opponents concerned about the future of Brazil’s democracy, just three decades old...
- 2018-10-10 - Check out this video featuring Marie Lynch and learn more about her company, Skills! ...
- 2018-10-10 - On September 27, 2018 the History department hosted its annual Alumni Career Night. This year the department welcomed Melissa Hatfield, Brian Levitsky, Matthew M. Thomas, and Jackson Turner back to campus to talk to current History students about their careers and how their History degree helped them acquire their various occupations as well as how it has shaped their professional journey. All...
2018-10-05 - CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — To be Hopi is to run. “That’s who we are and that’s what we do,” says ...- 2018-09-19 - 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. “By the time I got to college I realized history of science was a great way to combine two things I always was interested in,” Sepkoski said. After receiving his doctorate...
2018-08-16 - Brandon Nakashima went on a fruitful research trip this summer, preparing for his senior thesis this year. Brandon was the recipient of the Johannsen Scholarship for Promising Senior Honors Thesis Research....
2018-08-16 - 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. What was happening in the 1968 Democratic Convention 50 years ago, and why? History professor ...
2018-08-08 - 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 Edition and Translation of Two West African Arabic Chronicles (Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries)." This project includes preparation for print publication of a synoptic edition and English...