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History in the digital age: How digital humanities collective SourceLab is innovating new ways of publishing the past
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Student spotlight: Graciela Best, Stamps Scholar
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Student spotlight: Lillian Webb, a Humanities in Action Scholar using humanities skills to support Reentry Project
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Spotlight on Amanda Quealy, undergraduate researcher
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Humanities Research Lab courses provide community based research education: Spotlight on professor Yuridia Ramírez' oral history methods class
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Inside HIST 203: Reacting to the Past
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Learning world history, making Illini history: Inside our study abroad in Prague program
Stefan Djordjevic and Marco Jaimes wrote about the first year of our study abroad program HIST 354: 20th Century Europe in Prague. Applications are currently being accepted for the summer 2025 program. Tour one of Europe's most beautiful cities and visit locations where history was made:...
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Undergraduate student Justin Wytmar awarded Beinecke Scholarship
Justin Wytmar, who recently completed his junior year at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, is among 20 students nationally who were awarded the Beinecke Scholarship. The Beinecke award supports graduate study in the arts, humanities or...