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...
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,...
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...
2025-07-14 - Professor Yuridia Ramírez received a 2025 Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Award from the Institute of Citizens & Scholars. The award...
2025-07-10 - Meet Austin Justice (BA,'20, history), an assistant editor for the Papers of Abraham Lincoln (PAL) at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum. The PAL project is dedicated to publishing every document written by or addressed to Abraham Lincoln. In addition to his role at PAL, Justice...
2025-06-30 - Recent graduate Anthony Erkan (BA'25, history and economics) was one of five University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign students and recent graduates to receive a Fulbright grant to pursue international education,...
2025-06-26 - Professor Antoinette Burton, a professor of history and director of the Humanities Research Institute, received the Distinguished Award for Excellence in Public Engagement.
2025-06-16 - In the Department of History, a new award will provide opportunities for undergraduate students to gain hands-on research experience in the community.The Kathryn Oberdeck Public History Award...
2025-06-10 - Two history PhD students have been selected for the Humanities Without Walls Summer Bridge Program. The Humanities Without Walls (HWW) Summer Bridge Program is a collaborative...
2025-06-09 - Professor Marc A. Hertzman received an honorable mention for the best book in the 2024 Latin American Studies Association Brazil Section Prizes for his book After Palmares: Diaspora, Inheritance, and the Afterlives of Zumbi. In...