Illinois State University history alum Samuel Wheeler ’00, an expert on the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln, was named Illinois state historian by the trustees of the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency.
Unit: History
Ask a Redbird Scholar: Is political partisanship worse than ever?
Has partisanship increased in the past decades, is this a good or bad thing, what is the solution, and what should we expect to see going forward?
Reactions: Affirmative action has history with labor
Associate Professor of History Touré Reed discusses the history of affirmative action, and called it a hard-won victory that must be defended.
Ciani and Hoff named 2016 Strand diversity award winners
Kyle Ciani and Pamela Hoff have been named joint recipients of the 2016 David A. Strand Diversity Achievement Award at the Founders Day Convocation.
Holocaust survivors’ guilt spreads through generations
Illinois State University faculty look at Holocaust survivors’ guilt as it is passed from generation to generation, and comment on the idea that no one could see the Holocaust coming.
Qiliang He to explore journalism in China
Assistant Professor of History Qiliang He will present “The Use of Newspapers: Some Reflections on the History of Journalism in China” at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, April 21.
Photos: Redbird scholars at Illinois State Research Symposium
More than 500 Illinois State undergraduate and graduate students distilled months of hard work into posters that they displayed Friday at the University Research Symposium.
My student teaching abroad story: Brandon Diericks
So far, this study abroad experience in Europe has been exciting, eye-opening, and very interesting from a historical standpoint.
My student teaching abroad story: Kelly Papanicholas
So far on this trip I have loved my experience in England!
Our town of Eastbourne is along the sea a few towns away from Brighton. Eastbourne has a nice town center that has a vast amount of tiny shops and bigger department stores such as Primark, Next, and Marks and Spencer.
My student teaching abroad story: Jessica McKenzie
An Illinois State University history-social sciences teacher education major recently shared this dispatch from England, where she is studying abroad during the spring 2016 semester.