2025-02-20 - Leaving the Fight: Surrender, Prisoners of War, and Detainees in Western Warfare, a new book by emeritus professor of history...
2025-02-18 - History PhD students Grace Maria Eberhardt and B.W. Lawton wrote an op-ed in the News Gazette about Trump's federal ban on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Eberhardt is also a graduate minor in Latina/Latino studies. Movement from the margins: Trump’s federal ban on DEI and...
2025-02-10 - History professor Antoinette Burton recently published Biocultural Empire: New Histories of Imperial Lifeworlds, a collection of essays that she co-edited with Renisa Mawani and Samantha Frost.
2025-02-04 - Editor's Note: The School of Information Sciences profiled history alumnus Adam Beaty and we have reshared it here with their permission. Adam Beaty (BA, '21, history) decided to pursue an MSLIS degree to combine his love of history, the arts, and community-centered...
2025-01-27 - Professor Marsha Barrett recently joined fellow historians Julian Zelizer and Nicole Hemmer in a roundtable discussion on CBS Mornings to discuss Trump's lasting impact as he begins his second term....
2025-01-23 - Editor's Note: This story originally appeared on the College of LAS website in September 2022. We're resharing it to celebrate the recent publication of professor Chaplin's book, Becoming...
2025-01-16 - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign history professor Kristin Hoganson has been awarded a 2024 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship.“An NEH...
2025-01-16 - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign history professor Robert Morrissey traveled to a Paris museum in November to see four ...
2025-01-09 - In the 1950s, the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco) partnered with the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) to conduct medical research on the eye disease trachoma. Aramco spent over $2 million on the project with the goal of developing a vaccine. In her new book,...
2025-01-07 - The Stamps Scholars program recently profiled scholarship recipient Graciela Best in their newsletter, Aspire. It has been reprinted with their permission.
2024-12-19 - The Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has appointed professor Peter Fritzsche to its permanent faculty. CAS professors are selected...
2024-12-19 - Editor's note: This story originally appeared on the Humanities Research Institute website.Humanities in Action (HIA) is a semester-long, paid community engagement program for humanities students at the...
2024-12-16 - Editor's note: This story originally appeared on the Prairie Research Institute website.Amanda Quealy is a sophomore majoring in history and anthropology at the University of Illinois...
2024-12-12 - The Midwest played a central role in the growth of Black freedom movements in the 20th century. It was a key site for incubating and expanding the ideas of political activist Marcus Garvey, not only in the U.S., but globally, said University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professor of ...
2024-12-09 - We are pleased to announce that graduate student You Lan has been awarded the 2024 CCWH/Berks Graduate Student Fellowship Award. She will receive $1000 to support the completion of her dissertation.Lan's dissertation examines...