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07/31/2024
WIU History Professors Examine the History of War in New Book - WIU News MACOMB/MOLINE, IL - - A pair of Western Illinois University professors in collaboration with Marine Corps University Press published a new book focused on ho...
05/21/2022
Congrats to our new MA graduates of WIU History, Ryan and Leia!
Congrats to Leia Hastings and Ryan Lambert for receiving their MA degrees in History!
05/21/2022
Congrats to to newly minted Leatherneck historians!
Friends of the WIU History graduate program. We are consolidating our social media outreach and news about the History department. Please continue to follow achievements of our graduate students and graduate program news at the WIU History (main) page, URL https://www.facebook.com/wiuhistory/. Please follow and Like us there. Stay in touch! Tim Roberts
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11/05/2021
Congratulations to History Professors Lee Brice and Tim Roberts for their awards of 2022 WIU Summer Stipends. Stipends are competitive internal grants that fund faculty research. Prof. Brice's research project is a for a book, "Present but Not Accounted For: Women and the Roman Military." Prof. Roberts's research project is for a collaboration with AP US History teachers, "Can Historical Thinking Skills Be Taught with a Game? Using the Interactive Story "Lincoln's Decision" in the High School Classroom."
WIU Foundation Summer Stipend Award Recipients - Western Illinois University News - Office of University Relations MACOMB/MOLINE, IL -- The Western Illinois University Foundation and the Office of Sponsored Projects have awarded 12 stipends to WIU faculty for Summer 2022. "The WIU Foundation is proud to support our University faculty's scholarly activity," said Brad Bainter, executive officer of the WIU Foundati...
10/28/2021
The Damaging Myth of the Natural Teacher Despite decades of evidence, good teaching is still considered more art than science. That’s hurting faculty members and students alike.
10/15/2021
Prof Roberts presenting October 14, 2021 in Western's Learning Is Forever (LIFE) "Armchair Traveler" program, sharing about his family's year in China when he was a US Fulbright Lecturer.
10/13/2021
How Can Educators Teach Students To Spot Fake News? The usual methods teachers use for addressing online credibility are mostly unhelpful. Stanford's Sam Wineburg offers a better approach.
10/12/2021
Graduate student Jacob Wooldridge speaking (via Zoom) to high school teachers and public historians about his Twine interactive story, "Andersonville Prison," on October 8 at this year's Illinois State History Conference, hosted by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield. Jacob created the story for Tim Roberts's History of the Civil War class at Western in spring 2021.
10/08/2021
A Year After a Jobs Bust, College Students Find a Boom Seniors and graduates are again in demand as companies revive recruiting, underscoring the economic premium that comes with a diploma.
10/05/2021
Joe Klein Explains How the History of Four Centuries Ago Still Shapes American Culture and Politics David Hackett Fischer’s “Albion’s Seed,” published in 1989, describes today’s United States with stunning prescience.
10/02/2021
Federal jobs for historians -