2024-12-02
- As an oral historian, Illinois history professor Yuridia “Yuri” Ramírez records the stories of people who have never been written about in history books. “These people have, in some ways, made the most impactful legacies in their communities, and people don’t know...
2024-11-29 - After 36 years of teaching at the University of Illinois, our colleague Kai-wing Chow retired in May 2024. Chow is a highly esteemed historian of China with an international reputation. His areas of expertise include Chinese intellectual history, history of printing and publishing, and new cultural history. His works have been...
2024-11-19 - Editors note: This piece originally appeared on the Prairie Research Institute Website.Meet Alexander Rushing, who usually goes by Sasha, a Visiting Scientific Specialist in Historic Mining & Geology at...
2024-11-18 - Professor Peter Fritzsche recently wrote an op ed in The Forward about the 2024 presidential election.Voters elected Hitler because they liked his fascist promise. Trump’s reelection repeats that history"The end of the presidential campaign was characterized by broad charges that President-elect Donald Trump is a fascist. Vice President Kamala Harris and her surrogates invited...
2024-11-08 - When professor Leslie J. Reagan entered her graduate program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison she and the other students in her cohort were told they would never get a job. The field of women's history was virtually nonexistent at the time. “I thought, that's okay, I’ll work in a women's bookstore. Little did I know that most of those independent bookstores would disappear and that I...
2024-11-07 - The Department of History is pleased to announce that professor Marc Hertzman was awarded an honorable mention for the prestigious James Alexander Robertson Prize for the best article published in the Hispanic American Historical Review by the Conference on Latin American History. His article, ...
2024-11-05 - Professor Rosalyn LaPier wrote an op-ed in The Conversation about President Biden's apology for the US government policy of sending Native American children to Indian boarding schools.My family lived the horrors of Native American boarding schools–why Biden’s apology doesn’t go far enoughI am a direct descendant of family members...-
2024-11-04 - Newsweek recently interviewed historians about the loyalty of Hitler's generals. Professor Peter Fritzsche weighed in."Most of the military—from soldiers to officers to generals—were loyal and ideologically aligned with Hitler. The price of disloyalty was very high. There were differences over tactics, but these sorts of disagreements were also considered questions of...
2024-10-21 - Imagine it’s 1913 and you’re in a tiny basement restaurant called Polly’s in Greenwich Village, New York. Change is in the air and intellectuals, artists, and activists gather to debate the issues of the day: women’s suffrage, labor unions, socialism, birth control, and anarchism. The nightly crowd includes figures like Emma Goldman, Margaret Sanger, Bill Heywood, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Charlotte...
2024-10-17 - Stefan Djordjevic and Marco Jaimes wrote about the first year of our study abroad program HIST 354: 20th Century Europe in Prague. Applications are currently being accepted for the summer 2025 program. Tour one of Europe's most beautiful cities and visit locations where history was made: Wenceslas Square, the Jewish Quarter, Prague Castle, the Theresienstadt Ghetto, and the National...
2024-10-14 - The Department of History is pleased to announce that Professor Angela Diaz has been awarded the Michael V. R. Thomason Book Award from the Gulf South Historical Association for her book ...
2024-10-08 - This fall, the Department of History is excited to welcome Anna Jungeun Lee to our faculty as an assistant professor. Her primary appointment is in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, but she has a 25% appointment in the Department of History. Lee is a historian of Korean...
2024-10-01 - This fall, the Department of History is excited to welcome Chelsey Smith as a public humanities post-doctoral fellow. Smith is a historian of nineteenth-century Jamaican history and her research interests include education, race, and labor in the Caribbean and Latin America. The College of LAS Public Humanities Fellow program is a unique opportunity for Smith to pursue a public...
2024-09-26 - This fall, the Department of History is excited to welcome Deepasri Baul to our faculty as an assistant professor. Professor Baul is a historian of modern South Asia, specializing in urban history, property regimes, and religious politics. Her research analyses how urban space is produced through the intersection of religion...