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Department of History

Special Events

Black History Month speaker:  Is Race Identity?

Dr. Barbara Fields, professor of history at Columbia University in New York, delivered the lecture “Is Race Identity?” at  6 p.m. Wednesday, February 28, 2024 , in Prairie Room III, Bone Student Center, as part of events for Black History Month at Illinois State University.

You can listen to the lecture and read about Dr. Fields in this news article. 

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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.

  • Do It Scared with Dr. Anna Reser

    Join Dr. Anna Reser for a journey into the twilight zone of historical practice on October 15, 2024.

  • 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