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Hong Kong Media and Asia’s Cold War
Po-Shek Fu, author, Oxford University Press, 2023
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Stigma: Marking Skin in the Early Modern World
Craig Koslofsky, co-editor, Penn State University Press, 2023
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Inka Bird Idiom: Amazonian Feathers in the Andes
Claudia Brosseder, author, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023
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People of the Ecotone: Environment and Indigenous Power at the Center of Early America
Robert Michael Morrissey, author, University of Washington Press, 2022
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The Intimate State: How Emotional Life Became Political in Welfare-State Britain
Teri Chettiar, author, Oxford University Press, 2022
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Racism in Modern Russia: From the Romanovs to Putin
Eugene M. Avrutin, author, Bloomsbury, 2022
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How are states altering higher education by redefining academic freedom? Interview with Professor Carol Symes
Carol Symes, a professor of history at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, is vice president of the campus chapter of the American Association of University Professors....
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Professor Rosalyn LaPier interviewed on WILL The 21st about returning land to Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation
Professor Rosalyn LaPier was interviewed on April 25, 2024 on WILL's The 21st about the return of land to Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation. On April 19, the U.S. Department of the Interior placed portions of the Shab-eh-nay Reservation land into trust for Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, making...
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94% of recent Illinois history majors secure first destination
An annual study of recent alumni reports 94% of history majors who graduated during the most recent 2022-2023 period secured their first destination within six months of commencement.
Of that figure, 56% of new graduates found employment, and 38% sought further education such as...
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Three new faculty members will join the Department of History this fall
The Department of History is pleased to announce that three new faculty members (subject to board approval) will join our ranks this fall. Our new colleagues will add to our strengths in South and East Asian history, and nineteenth century United States history.
Deepasri Baul
Deepasri Baul...