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...- 2017-03-07 - Professor Rana Hogarth gave expert commentary for an AP story about Housing Secretary Ben Carson's recent comments characterizing slavery as a form of immigration....
2017-03-01 - CHECK OUT www.lavidabaseball.com It's a brand new website launched by the National Baseball Hall of Fame with our own ...- 2017-03-01 - Professor Emeritus John Lynn has been awarded the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize, the highest award that the Society for Military History ...
2017-01-17 - The History Department is deeply committed to the scholarly exchange of ideas and people across national borders and divisions. The department has been immeasurably enriched by international students, faculty and visiting scholars, who hail from countries and regions around the world. Their...
2016-12-16 - Congratulations to Professor Peter Fritzsche whose newest book, An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler, just had a fabulous review in The Wall Street Journal....
2016-12-12 - PROFESSOR ADRIAN BURGOS, JR. is featured in the premiere of "Cuba: Island of Baseball". Don't miss it on December 13th, 9 pm ET on the MLB Network.Watch the...
2016-11-16 - The Windy City Times recently spoke with Professor Kevin Mumford regarding his newest book, Not Straight, Not White.- 2016-11-04 - Join us in Congratulating Professor Ikuko Asaka who was just named as a Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors Scholar.Read Full...