Editors note: This piece originally appeared on the Prairie Research Institute Website. Meet Alexander Rushing, who...

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...

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....

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...

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 ...

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...

 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...

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...