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Letter from the Chair
Dear Friends of History at Illinois,
We begin the new academic year with a renewed sense of purpose about our twin missions: to equip undergraduate students with a keen and critical sense of the past and to train graduate students to be historians for the 21st century. We are especially pleased to be featuring a series of events around the theme of "Catastrophe" in the coming weeks and months. Even as the forces of global capital implode all around us, we remain convinced that humanists in general and historians in particular have much to tell us about how catastrophic events have unfolded in the past, how societies have dealt with them and, of course, what we in the present can and should learn from those experiences. In this respect, History at Illinois is carrying on a great tradition of civic humanism with a sense of urgency specific, if not unique, to these times. If you are interested in hearing more about this initiative or anything else we are doing, please don't hesitate to contact me. For information on events you can go directly to our department calendar. If you are ever in town and would like to stop by Gregory Hall, we would love to meet you and show you what we are doing.
All the best.
Antoinette Burton
Professor and Chair; Bastian Professor of Global and Transitional Studies
News & Announcements
- History @ Illinois Newsletter, Spring 2009
Published Date: June 30, 2009 - Military Historian Concludes a Career of Teaching and Bagpiping at LAS
Published Date: May 2009 - Jungwon Kim awarded ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowship
- National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship awarded to Craig Koslofsky
- Alumnus Mike Rosenow wins Herbert Gutman Dissertation Prize
View the news archive
Upcoming Events
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Dissertation Writing Workshop
Nov 10, 2009 | 4:00 pm
415 Gregory Hall -
HGSA General Meeting
Nov 11, 2009 | 3:00 pm
307 Gregory Hall -
Undergraduate Studies Committee Meeting
Nov 11, 2009 | 3:00 pm
300C Gregory Hall -
Robin Blackburn Lincoln Bicentennial Lecture, 'The Republican and the Revolutionary: Abraham Lincoln and Karl Marx'
Nov 11, 2009 | 4:00 pm
3rd Floor, Levis Faculty Center
View the event website
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Featured Links
Recent Faculty Publications
Winton Solberg, Professor Emeritus
Reforming Medical Education: The University Illinois College of Medicine, 1880-1920
(University of Illinois Press)
Article from Inside Illinois, Vol. 28, No. 199
Ron Toby
The Politics of 'Seclusion'
(Shogakukan)
Maria Todorova
Imagining the Balkans
(Oxford University Press)
Eugene Avrutin
Photographing the Jewish Nation: Pictures from S. An-sky's Ethnographic Expeditions
(Brandeis University Press)