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

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Faculty Excellence

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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

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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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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.
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Main Street College to explore canine behavior, behavioral psychology“Going to the Dogs: How our furry friends help us better understand human behavior” is the title of the spring Main Street College event scheduled for March 27.

Events

Apr24
International Seminar Series: “What I Learned About the Modern World from Teaching Comparative Global Fundamentalisms”4/24/19 at 12:00 PMBone Student Center
2017-06-23T13:50:33.888-05:00 2017