2025-10-13 - Lecturer Shannan Mason joins the Department of History
2025-10-07 - Q&A with alumnus Benjamin Zavell
2025-09-30 - Professor Peter Fritzsche publishes new book "1942: When World War II Engulfed the Globe"
2025-09-23 - Professor Chelsey Smith joins the Department of History
2025-09-18 - Retired colonel Bradley Harms will be honored during Homecoming Week 2025
2025-09-15 - The bench honors Katherine Aaslestad, Debra Allen, Charles Crouch, Louis Haas, and Daniel Soloff.
2025-09-11 - Q&A with alumna Beth Watkins
2025-09-08 - Graduate student Dale Mize explores beefy history
2025-08-18 - Two history professors received named scholar positions for their contributions in education and research in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.Professor Roderick Wilson, an associate professor in the Department of History and the Department of East Asian Languages and...
2025-08-14 - A new Spurlock Museum exhibit commemorates the 1985 Farm Aid Relief Concert
2025-08-14 - Graduate student Alex Jacobs teaches by integrating physical spaces with history
2025-08-14 - Professor Tayzhaun Glover joins the Department of History
2025-08-11 - Emeritus professor David Prochaska passed away on January 6, 2025 at the age of 79. Prochaska was a historian of colonialism and visual culture with a specialty in colonial Algeria. He was also interested in France and the Mediterranean, the anthropology of tourism, museum studies, urban history, and colonial urbanism. “David was a force. He traveled the world (33 countries) and spent a...
2025-08-05 - Digital historian and medievalist Kalani Craig joins the Department of History
2025-07-15 - There’s a quote from Abraham Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address in 1861 that the East Central Illinois Alliance of Braver Angels likes to remember as it works to bridge partisan divides: “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of...