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Spotlight on Amanda Quealy, undergraduate researcher
Editor's note: This story originally appeared on the Prairie Research Institute website.Amanda Quealy is a sophomore majoring in history and anthropology at the University of Illinois...
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Illinois historian, Erik S. McDuffie, says Midwest played a crucial role in Black freedom movements worldwide
The Midwest played a central role in the growth of Black freedom movements in the 20th century. It was a key site for incubating and expanding the ideas of political activist Marcus Garvey, not only in the U.S., but globally, said University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professor of ...
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Graduate student You Lan awarded 2024 CCWH/Berks Graduate Student Fellowship Award
We are pleased to announce that graduate student You Lan has been awarded the 2024 CCWH/Berks Graduate Student Fellowship Award. She will receive $1000 to support the completion of her dissertation.Lan's dissertation examines...
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Recently retired: Professor Kai-wing Chow
After 36 years of teaching at the University of Illinois, our colleague Kai-wing Chow retired in May 2024. Chow is a highly esteemed historian of China with an international reputation. His areas of expertise include Chinese...
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Humanities Research Lab courses provide community based research education: Spotlight on professor Yuridia Ramírez' oral history methods class
As an oral historian, Illinois history professor Yuridia “Yuri” Ramírez records the stories of people who have never been written about in history books. “These...
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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...
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Alexander Rushing (2024)
Alexander Rushing (BA, '24, History) is a Visiting Scientific Specialist in Historic Mining & Geology at the Illinois State Geological Survey.
Read full story about Alexander Rushing (2024)
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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. There...
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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 women'...