Past Preliminary Exam Digital Collection
Digitized versions of UIUC History Dept. past preliminary exams are now available for
download.
Click on the date range below a field of study for a .pdf containing the available exams in that
specific field for that decade.
For privacy reasons, examinee names have been masked. Original print copies are also available
on reserve at the HPNL Circulation desk.
History Prelims
Africa
Afro-American
American Intellectual and Culture
Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome
Britain and Empire - Commonwealth since 1688
British Isles to 1688
China
Colonial North America and Early US to 1830
Colonialism and Post-Colonialism
Comparative Labor/Working Class
Cultural and Intellectual
Eastern and Southeastern Europe
Europe 1648-1789
Europe since 1789
Global Histories
History of Medicine
History of Nationalism
History of Science
History of Women and Gender
Japan
Late Antiquity
Latin America
Middle Ages
Middle East
Military History
Race and Ethnicity
Religion in Pre-Modern Society
Renaissance and Reformation
Russia
United States since 1830
Miscellaneous History Prelims
Below are prelims that do not belong to one of the specific fields above.
