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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


NU Declassified: The student becomes the professor

May 3, 2022

    For some Northwestern professors, purple pride extends beyond the classroom. Across almost all of NU’s undergraduate schools, there are professors who attended the University...

On this day in 1851, Northwestern was chartered

January 28, 2021

On Jan. 28, 1851, the state of Illinois chartered Northwestern University. Learn about the beginning of Northwestern’s history and about the land it sits on. Closed captions available. Email: [email protected]  Twitter:...

Weinberg sophomore Carolina Débora Stutz. She described her summer research project in the fourth part of a series of student features.

Weinberg sophomore Carolina Débora Stutz conducts historical research on religious toleration

August 11, 2020

This article is the fourth in a series featuring Northwestern students and their research projects during the summer of 2020. As a recipient of the Leopold Fellowship in the Chabraja Center for Historical...

Shirola: It’s time to end birthright citizenship

February 24, 2020

In the final years of the Civil War and the subsequent Reconstruction Era, a debate was raging in Congress in regard to the rights of former slaves newly freed by the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation. The...

Thuillier: History is repeating itself — right before our eyes

Thuillier: History is repeating itself — right before our eyes

May 2, 2019

History has a tendency to repeat itself. As memory fades, events from the past can become events of the present. Some, like author William Strauss and historian Neil Howe, argue that this is due to the...

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