Undergraduate students

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...

Recent graduate Anthony Erkan (BA'25, history and economics) was one of five University of Illinois Urbana-...

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

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...

 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...

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 Prairie Research Institute website.Amanda Quealy is a sophomore majoring in history...

As an oral historian, Illinois history professor Yuridia “Yuri” Ramírez...

Imagine it’s 1913 and you’re in a tiny basement restaurant called Polly’s in Greenwich Village, New York. Change is in the air and intellectuals, artists, and activists gather to debate the issues of...