2024-11-07 - The largest and longest-lasting society formed by people who escaped slavery and their descendants endured for a century in northeastern Brazil, and it continues to be a potent political symbol of Black pride today. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
2024-09-10 - Graduate student Grace Maria Eberhardt didn’t think she would become a historian when she began as an undergraduate student at the University of Puget Sound. She initially wanted to study STEM, but after taking an African American studies class, she became more interested in ethnic studies and the...
2024-09-05 - This fall, the Department of History is excited to welcome Angela Diaz to our faculty as an associate professor. Professor Diaz is a Civil War era southern historian. Her research interests include the Gulf South, U.S. territorial...
2024-08-29 - Professor Marsha Barrett has received national media attention for her new book Nelson Rockefeller’s Dilemma: The Fight to Save Moderate Republicanism. Barrett has...
2024-08-26 - Researching is like putting together a puzzle you don’t have all the pieces for, according to history professor Anna Whittington. Sometimes you don’t even know what the puzzle...-
2024-08-20 - Politician and businessman Nelson Rockefeller was seen as a moderate or liberal Republican even as he embraced conservative policies as the Republican Party shifted to the right in the 1960s and ‘70s.University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign history...