Media Mentions

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...

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...

 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...

Professor Marsha Barrett has received national media attention for her new book Nelson Rockefeller’s Dilemma: The Fight to Save Moderate Republicanism. Barrett has...

Professor Marsha Barrett, an expert on the political and social history of the US during the 20th century, was recently interviewed on NPR's All Things Considered. The NPR piece asked if our current political and social climate is a mirror of 1968. Barrett told NPR "it makes sense that people are...

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...

Dr. Adrian Burgos, Jr., a professor of history at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, studies individuals from Latin America came to, worked in, and were recruited to play baseball in the U.S.  Read more: ...

When huge herds of bison roamed the Great Plains... Read more:  https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/859024435.

Professor Dave Beck discusses the history of Native American boarding schools in Illinois with Northern Public Radio.

An educational read by Professor Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua on Juneteenth has been published on the Library of Congress website.