Everything and Everyone has a History
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Chart Your Own Path
Our program empowers you to explore your interests and passions within history and gives you the flexibility to pair the major with advanced language study, internships, study abroad experiences, undergraduate research, and community engagement.
Black Music
From African spirituals to Beyoncé, you’ll answer “What really is Black music?”
The President and the People
A chronological survey of the US presidency that examines individual presidents and the times in which they lived.
A History of Everything: The Big Bang to Big Data
Explore different scales of time and place human history in larger geological, ecological, and cosmic contexts.
Constructing Race in America
Explores the complex and intricate pursuit of multiracial and multicultural democracy.
Madness and Modern Society
Learn how the diagnosis and treatment of "madness" in its many forms has been shaped through the interaction of social, political, economic, and cultural factors from roughly 1750 to the 1990s.
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Conduct Your Own Research
Research is embedded in the history curriculum with an emphasis on transforming students from consumers of history to critical producers of it. All students have access to the resources of the second largest university library in the country.
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Alumni Spotlight: Kristen L Allen (2016)
Kristen's enthusiasm for research, public history and the digital humanities convinced her to pursue a career in museum studies and becoming Museum Coordinator of the Illinois Distributed Museum. As a History major, Kristen honed her research and writing skills and took advantage of multiple opportunities to pursue undergraduate research.