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Memorial bench commemorates 1990s graduate student cohort
The bench honors Katherine Aaslestad, Debra Allen, Charles Crouch, Louis Haas, and Daniel Soloff.
From history major to museum exhibit interpretation and visitor experience manager
Q&A with alumna Beth Watkins
The steaks of archival research
Graduate student Dale Mize explores beefy history
History Harvest revives Farm Aid memories in Champaign for Spurlock exhibit
A new Spurlock Museum exhibit commemorates the 1985 Farm Aid Relief Concert
A new model for learning about community history
Graduate student Alex Jacobs teaches by integrating physical spaces with history
Understanding movement, slavery, and freedom in the Caribbean
Professor Tayzhaun Glover joins the Department of History
Building software for history
Digital historian and medievalist Kalani Craig joins the Department of History
The (not) Fighting Illini: History alumnus helps lead group devoted to bridging contentious political divides
There’s a quote from Abraham Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address in 1861 that the East Central Illinois Alliance of Braver Angels likes to...
From history major to assistant editor: Q&A with alumnus Austin Justice
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...
History in the digital age: How digital humanities collective SourceLab is innovating new ways of publishing the past
How do we preserve and interpret the historical record in a digital age? Traditionally, archivists collect and preserve historical sources, historians interpret them through books or...