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Graduate Student Spotlight-Spring 2009
Civil War Memory - Bruce Levine on YouTube about Confederate Emancipation.
The MacArthur Foundation has awarded support for the next Ralph and Ruth Fisher Form, "Russia's Role in Human Mobility: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives," organized by John Randolph and Gene Avrutin. Further details: https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/jwr/www/mobility2009/ .
Peter Fritzsche's new book argues that FEAR OF GERMANY'S DESTRUCTION DROVE NAZISM'S APPEAL.
Seventy-five years after the Nazis rose to power, historians still struggle to explain how the Nazis could take such effective hold of Germany and bring it to such murderous extremes in war and in the Holocaust. (Read the full story by clicking: U. of I. News Bureau, June 17, 2008.)
Lincoln Bicentennial Lecture Series ***March 12, 2008 - James M. McPherson***
History at Illinois Winter 2008 Edition
BASEBALL HISTORY w/Adrian Burgos
June 1 (MBL.com) & June 3 (Orlando Sentinel, Florida) -- Stories attached as pdfs.
THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION: Research & Books 12/07/2007
"Turning On the Mind: French Philosophers on Television," written by Professor Tamara Chaplin.
Mellon Awards (History Faculty Recipients)
New Faculty in History, 2007-2008
llinois Sweeps the Title VI Center Awards, and Historians Lead the Way!