Join our Brownbag this Wednesday, March 13, 2019, from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. Our Northwestern colleague Daniel Immerwahr will be here to talk about his new book, How to Hide an Empire: A History of…
Professor Lynn Hudson is extensively quoted in a recent article in the New York Times. Hudson is interviewed in a profile of Mary Ellen Pleasant, who was entrepreneur, financier, real estate magnate and abolitionist.…
Professor Robert Johnston has been awarded the Roger D. Bridges Distinguished Service Award for Exemplary Service for the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. The SHGAPE Executive Committee unanimously…
Join us on Wednesday, January 23, 2019, 12 pm – 1 pm in UH 950 for our weekly BrownBag! We will discuss the new format of the exams, which goes into effect in March. In…
William Hoisington, Professor Emeritus in the Department of History has been awarded membership in the Ordre des Palmes académiques (Order of Academic Palms) at the rank of Chevalier, in recognition of his distinguished career as a…
Barbara Ransby, a University of Illinois at Chicago historian, writer, and activist, is the recipient of the American Studies Association’s 2018 Angela Y. Davis Prize for Public Scholarship, which recognizes scholars who have…
Robert Johnson has recently completed a five-year term as co-editor of the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. According to Dr. Kristin Hoganson, President of the Society for Historians of the Gilded…
On November 7, Professor Keely Stauter-Halsted will be presenting our weekly brownbag series on: “Violence by Other Means: Citizen Denunciations and Internment Camps in Post World War I Poland.”
Our Esteemed Faculty member and colleague, Elizabeth Todd-Breland will discuss her findings and the related ongoing implications during an Oct. 26 event hosted by UIC’s Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy; Social Justice Institute,…
Congratulations to the UIC Department of History for being selected to be part of two American Historical Association-led initiatives funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. You can read the full article here.