2017-11-15 - Thomas Dowling, a double-major in history and political science, has been named Lincoln Academy Student Laureate Award, which recognizes university seniors for their excellence in curricular and extracurricular activities.
2017-11-15 - Several outstanding professors in the College of LAS have been selected by their peers to receive named professorial positions, which provide financial assistance to support their research and teaching duties. The positions were created through gifts to the college. For example, Richard Romano (BS...
2017-11-10 - Matt Eisenbrandt, a history alumnus, has spent his career litigating against perpetrators of abuse and atrocities in foreign countries who thought they had found safe haven in the United States and Canada.
2017-10-26 - Russia’s world-changing revolution came 100 years ago this November, but our view of it has been shaped by the repression and massive death that came in its wake, as well as by decades of Russian-U.S. conflict. History professor Mark Steinberg is taking a fresh look at the events of 1917, both in a...
2017-09-28 - When and where professional athletes have the right to voice their political opinions became an issue following comments by President Donald Trump aimed at players in the NFL. History professor Adrian Burgos Jr. focuses his research on the history of U.S. sports, specifically as it relates to...- 2017-09-20 - Hear Prof. Leslie Reagan and PhD candidate Nathan Tye talking about Illinois' connection to Agent Orange in the Vietnam War on WILL radio program, The 21st. From the 21st: "During the...
2017-09-14 - Health issues arising from Agent Orange exposure during the Vietnam War have altered ideas about war wounds and the cause of birth defects, says U. of I. history professor Leslie Reagan, who specializes in medical history. Her future book on the subject will examine the history of the herbicide’s...
2017-06-26 - Emeritus Professor Winton Solberg has been one of three awarded the highest campus honor. The Chancellor's Medallion has only been awarded six times since it was first presented in 1999. Ellen Swain, the Stewart S....
2017-06-21 - Professor Adrian Burgos, Jr. was featured in a segment on ESPN regarding Cuban baseball defectors who are left stranded in the Dominican Republic when their baseball dreams...
2017-05-15 - Courtney Cain is a future three-time graduate of Illinois with a bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degree in history. After she officially graduates in August, she will be teaching at Lake Forest College as an assistant professor of history and...
2017-04-14 - Congratulations to UIUC History student, Thomas Dowling, on receiving the 2017 Truman scholarship! What an outstanding achievement! Thomas is majoring in both political science and history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-...
2017-04-13 - Join us in congratualating Professor Maria Todorova, who has been awarded an Honorary Doctor by Panteion University in Athens, Greece,...
2017-04-05 - Another huge congratulations goes out! This one to Professor Erik McDuffie who is the recipient of a 2017 fellowship from the American Council of Learned...
2017-03-21 - Ten professors, staff members and students associated with the department of history will each make their case for the book they think changed everything. Each presenter gets six minutes. Then a jury will vote and declare a winner. It’s the third annual “History Soapbox,” scheduled for 7 p.m....
2017-03-13 - Emeritus Professor Fred Hoxie was recently interviewed on ciLiving by Matt Metcalf about the...