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Were Hitler's generals loyal? Interview with professor Peter Fritzsche in Newsweek
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Leslie J. Reagan named Robert W. Schaefer Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences
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History professor’s book looks at Brazil’s longest-lasting maroon society, its influence today: Interview with professor Marc Hertzman
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Professor Marc Hertzman receives honorable mention for James Alexander Robertson Prize from Conference on Latin American History
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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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Professor Anna Jungeun Lee joins the Department of History at the University of Illinois
This fall, the Department of History is excited to welcome Anna Jungeun Lee to our faculty as an assistant professor. Her primary appointment is in the Department of East Asian Languages and...
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Chelsey Smith joins the Department of History as a public humanities post-doctoral fellow
This fall, the Department of History is excited to welcome Chelsey Smith as a public humanities post-doctoral fellow. Smith is a historian of nineteenth-century Jamaican history and her research interests include education, race, and labor in the Caribbean and Latin America. The College...
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Professor Angela Diaz awarded Michael V.R. Thomason Book Award from Gulf South Historical Association
The Department of History is pleased to announce that Professor Angela Diaz has been awarded the Michael V. R. Thomason Book Award from the Gulf South Historical...