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Study Abroad is an experience you will never forget

Learn more about study abroad opportunities within the Department of History.

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Study History

Our global and multidisciplinary focus makes Illinois State's History programs ideal for those interested in any number of future careers.

The unexamined subject is not worth studying.

- Socrates

History is the memory of a nation. Just as memory enables the individual to learn, to choose goals and stick to them, to avoid making the same mistake twice-in short, to grow-so history is the means by which a nation establishes its sense of identity and purpose.

- John F. Kennedy

Of all our studies history is the best qualified to reward our research.

- Malcom X

A historian is a prophet in reverse.

- Friedrich von Schlegel

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.

- John Gardner

The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.

- John Still

News

Illinois State has been an important part of CHSI from the beginning of the program: Here are a few current CHSI leaders: Illinois State Professor Chris Merrill (left), Illinois State students Blake Whittle and Thomas Moore, and CHSI Director Paul Ritter
Celebrating High School Innovators program helps students drive innovationIllinois State University is part of Celebrating High School Innovators, a program designed to encourage, award, and showcase innovative students from across the state.
Noah Tang and Zack Maslanka in front of St. Catherine's College
Education differences between the U.S. and EnglandIllinois State University students Noah Tang and Zack Maslanka present their impressions of the differences in education between the U.S. and England from their experiences student teaching in the UK.
Four men standing in prison uniforms
New book looks at southern prisons and the legacy of Jim CrowAmy Wood's new book, Crime and Punishment in the Jim Crow South, looks at the role criminal justice played as a tool of racial oppression in the southern United States.

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