Congratulations to our 2024 and 2025 seniors for completing their honors theses! The Department of History's Honors Program provides outstanding students with a high level of faculty and peer support and offers them numerous opportunities to present their work in public and to be recognized for...

 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...

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...

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,...

Professor Antoinette Burton, a professor of history and director of the Humanities Research Institute, received the Distinguished Award for Excellence in Public Engagement....

 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...

First generation students face a litany of unique challenges, ranging from a paucity of knowledge about higher education to identity and development-based concerns such as the weight of family expectations, economic insecurity, feelings of inadequacy, and social class differences. More than a...