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Department of History

Special Events

Charles Ives Sesquicentennial Festival

Illinois State University/Chicago Sinfonietta

February 19-22, 2025 The Charles Ives Sesquicentennial Festival is multi-night musical event hosted Illinois State University. Each day features various live music and film productions highlighting the contributions of Charles Ives. Visit the festival website for a complete schedule and organizer contact information.

Festival Website

Other Special Events in the Department of History

  • History-Social Sciences Teacher Symposium

    This in-person symposium is open to all Illinois elementary, middle, and secondary level History-Social Science educators, community educators, pre-service and student teachers

    2025 Symposium flyer (keynote speaker)

    2025 Symposium flyer proposal submission

  • Listen to Dr. Barbara Fields delivers the lecture “Is Race Identity?”

    Dr. Barbara Fields, professor of history at Columbia University in New York, will focus on the expression “racial identity,” which Fields says typically does not strike most people as a contradiction in terms, but it should. Race is not an identity but a hostile identification imposed by others. For example, it was attached to persons of African descent as a way to account for their enslavement in the midst of a polity where most people took freedom for granted.

  • ISU Department of History Webstore

    ISU Department of History Webstore items that were pre-ordered will be available for pick up at the office in SCHROEDER HALL 301 after October 7.  Orders sent home will be received after this date.

    The store will re-open again in the SPRING of 2025 with some new items!

    Shop the Webstore