UIUC’s History BA cultivates investigative thinkers who decode primary sources—manuscripts, film, material culture, oral testimony—to understand continuity and change across civilizations. Students craft narratives that connect Illinois coal towns to global labor movements, medieval plague outbreaks to modern pandemics, and Cold-War diplomacy to today’s cybersecurity politics. With archival practicums, museum internships, and digital-humanities labs, majors gain research rigor and public-facing communication skills prized in law, journalism, public policy, and cultural resource management.
3-D digital reconstruction of a 19th-century Champaign courthouse
Podcast on Midwestern suffrage activism and race
Data visualization of railroad expansion and Indigenous displacement
Curated museum pop-up on the Great Migration in Illinois
Text-mining study of Cold-War presidential speeches
GIS project on Black Civil War soldiers’ enlistment patterns
Interactive timeline of pandemics from 1347 to 2020
Oral-history collection on Vietnam-era draft resistance on campus
Comparative paper on empire decline: Rome vs. British Raj
Public-policy brief linking New Deal art programs to modern creatives-relief funding
Critical edition of a Progressive-Era reformer’s diaries
Virtual exhibit on Chicago world’s fairs and technological utopias
Environmental history research on prairie preservation movements
YouTube micro-documentary series on forgotten Illinois inventors
Crowdsourced transcription platform for frontier-era letters
Turn evidence into insight and engage the public with history at UIUC.
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