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Recent Awards
Many of our department's faculty and students have received awards and Recognition
Events
History Department to host Southern Illinois Regional History Fair
The department will sponsor the annual event in which middle and high school students demonstrate their knowledge of history. The 2012 fair will be held on April 2 in the SIUC Student Center.
Cairo Then and Now (a project of the History Department's Preservation Summer)
The History Graduate Student Association (HGSA)
American Historical Association
Professor Jonathan Wiesen's new book.
When the Nazis came to power in 1933, they promised to build a vibrant consumer society. But they faced a dilemma. They recognized that consolidating . . . read more
Professor Gray Whaley's new book.
Modern western Oregon was a crucial site of imperial competition in North America during the formative decades of the United States. In his book, Prof. Whaley . . . read more