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Alumni spotlight: Alexander Rushing ('24), Historic mining specialist
Editors note: This piece originally appeared on the Prairie Research Institute Website.
Meet Alexander Rushing, who...
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Alexander Rushing (2024)
Editors note: This piece originally appeared on the Prairie Research Institute Website.
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"Voters elected Hitler because they liked his fascist promise. Trump’s reelection repeats that history," op-ed by professor Peter Fritzsche in The Forward
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...
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Were Hitler's generals loyal? Interview with professor Peter Fritzsche in Newsweek
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....
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Leslie J. Reagan named Robert W. Schaefer Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences
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...
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History professor’s book looks at Brazil’s longest-lasting maroon society, its influence today: Interview with professor Marc Hertzman
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 ...
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Professor Marc Hertzman receives honorable mention for James Alexander Robertson Prize from Conference on Latin American History
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...
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"My family lived the horrors of Native American boarding schools–why Biden’s apology doesn’t go far enough," op-ed by professor Rosalyn LaPier
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...
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Inside HIST 203: Reacting to the Past
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...
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Learning world history, making Illini history: Inside our study abroad in Prague program
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:...