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Alan Lessoff
University Professor of History
Mailing address:
Department of History
Illinois State University
Campus Box 4420
Normal, IL 61790-4420
Office:
Schroeder 327
Spring 2024 office hours
MWF, 11-12:30
or by appointment
Phone:
309-438-8083
Email:
ahlesso@ilstu.edu
Specialties:
U.S. Gilded Age & Progressive Era
Comparative Urban History
HIS 135: US to 1865
HIS 200: Doing History
HIS 242: Chicago History
HIS 247: The Gilded Age, 1869-1898
HIS 248: US History, 1898-1945
HIS 300: Comparative Urban History
HIS 322: US Urban History
HIS 424: The US in Transnational Perspective
HIS 432: Local and Public History
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