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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

Portion of The painting Still Life with Chocolate Service by Luis Egidio Meléndez.
Culture and history celebrated at the International Food Symposium“Thought for Food in the Luso-Hispanic Transatlantic,” the International Food Symposium, aims to celebrate and examine the complex cultural, social, environmental, political, and economic interconnections that define food’s position within these regions.
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Women’s and Gender Studies Symposium, March 22Qwo-Li Driskill will give an address titled “Performing Revolution, Scholarship, and Decolonial Practice” at the Women’s and Gender Studies Symposium on Friday, March 22.
Noah Tang (right) and Jeanna Campbell were among the ISU students who helped start the food pantry.
Food Pantry seeks to solve student hunger problemWhen listing the struggles facing college students, people tend to think of homesickness or studying stress—many never consider hunger.

Events

Mar20
International Seminar Series: “Meaning Making and Control in Islamic Banking and Finance”3/20/19 at 12:00 PMBone Student Center
Mar27
International Seminar Series: “Afro-Brazilian Religions and the Contemporary Roles of Women”3/27/19 at 12:00 PMBone Student Center
Mar28
Surviving Stalin and the Nazis: Vladimir Rott to speak3/28/19 at 4:00 PMUniversity Galleries
Apr3
International Seminar Series: “Mormonism: The American Religion or the Next World Religion”4/3/19 at 12:00 PMBone Student Center
Apr10
International Seminar Series: “Image Makers and Image Breakers: Art and Iconoclasm in the Northern Renaissance”4/10/19 at 12:00 PMBone Student Center
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