2019-07-17 - In his new book "Another Kind of War: The Nature and History of Terrorism," History Department Emeritus Professor John Lynn seeks to contribute to "civic education and, in a sense, civil defense." The difficult - yet critical - lesson Professor Lynn instills is that “In dealing with terrorism,...
2019-07-08 - University of Illinois Emeritus Professor Winston Solberg's extraordinary life and career took him from Omaha Beach to the Ardennes during the Battle of the Bulge, to the faculty of Harvard, West Point and Yale, and finally to the UIUC History Department.
2019-06-11 - On the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, Professor Kevin Mumford of the History Department discusses the legacies of the riots and their place in LGBTQ history and in the history of civil rights
2019-04-19 - Good Morning Illini interviewed Professor Tamara Chaplin to discuss the tragedy of the Notre Dame fire and the role of the legendary cathedral in French history and national memory. To view the interview in full, visit this link...
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...
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...- 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...
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...- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
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...