Undergraduate students

A new Spurlock Museum exhibit commemorates the 1985 Farm Aid Relief Concert

Congratulations to our 2024 and 2025 seniors for completing their honors theses! The Department of History's Honors Program provides outstanding students with a high level of faculty and peer support and offers them numerous opportunities to present their work in public and to be recognized for...

Recent graduate Anthony Erkan (BA'25, history and economics) was one of five University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign students and recent graduates to receive a Fulbright grant to pursue international education,...

 In the Department of History, a new award will provide opportunities for undergraduate students to gain hands-on research experience in the community.The Kathryn Oberdeck Public History Award...

First generation students face a litany of unique challenges, ranging from a paucity of knowledge about higher education to identity and development-based concerns such as the weight of family expectations, economic insecurity, feelings of inadequacy, and social class differences. More than a...

 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 documentary editions, and publishers distribute them. Today, historical sources that once would have been only...

The Stamps Scholars program recently profiled scholarship recipient Graciela Best in their newsletter, Aspire. It has been reprinted with their permission.

Editor's note: This story originally appeared on the Humanities Research Institute website.Humanities in Action (HIA) is a semester-long, paid community engagement program for humanities students at the...

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...

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...