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...
2018-07-25 - In a recent issue of Perspectives, the monthly publication of the American Historical Association, Emily Skidmore (PhD, 2011), was quote extensively in an article on the rise of trans history as a field of study. The author of True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the 20th Century (NYU Press, 2017), Skidmore explains that “Even though the term...
2018-07-16 - The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences has announced the recipients of its 2018 annual alumni awards. The recipients represent a variety of backgrounds and degrees, from microbiology and economics to history, psychology, and mathematics. Their remarkable achievements are linked to their experiences and connections at the University of Illinois. Most recipients will be honored on campus...
2018-06-15 - Madeline Alvendia, a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champiagn, has been awarded a James Madison Fellowship by the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation of Alexandria, VA in its twenty-seventh annual fellowship competition. A total of 52 fellowships were awarded in 2018. James Madison Fellowships support further study of American history by college graduates who...
2018-05-31 - A new program in the Department of History is designed to create wider awareness of the careers and opportunities available to doctoral students while highlighting the diverse skills developed through graduate study. Mark Steinberg, a professor of history and director of graduate studies for the department, said that a new grant from...
2018-04-27 - CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The mass spectacle that is now college football started small in the late 1800s, but the issues then were remarkably similar to today: amateurism versus professionalism, player eligibility, player safety, commercialization and the role of football in higher education. Some fought against the trends and forces that have since transformed the game; others...