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History alumnus receives 2025 Alumni Achievement Award
Retired colonel Bradley Harms will be honored during Homecoming Week 2025
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Memorial bench commemorates 1990s graduate student cohort
The bench honors Katherine Aaslestad, Debra Allen, Charles Crouch, Louis Haas, and Daniel Soloff.
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From history major to museum exhibit interpretation and visitor experience manager
Q&A with alumna Beth Watkins
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The steaks of archival research: Graduate student Dale Mize explores beefy history
During summer 2025, graduate student Dale Mize went on a research trip for his dissertation, which explores how health concerns shaped the beef industry in the United States from 1945 to 1995.
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Professors Roderick Wilson and Adrian Burgos Jr. receive named scholar positions
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...
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History Harvest revives Farm Aid memories in Champaign for Spurlock exhibit
A new Spurlock Museum exhibit commemorates the 1985 Farm Aid Relief Concert
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Graduate student Alex Jacobs teaches by integrating physical spaces with history
“Kids need this project now more than ever,” said history graduate student Alex Jacobs as she reflected on her summer working with a...
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A new model for learning about community history
Graduate student Alex Jacobs teaches by integrating physical spaces with history
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Understanding movement, slavery, and freedom in the Caribbean
Professor Tayzhaun Glover joins the Department of History