The UIHistories ProjectRead about the founding years of the University, early milestones and student life of yesteryear, the histories of nearly 300 buildings, major class gifts, or simply spend some time reading through the more than 70,000 pages of digitized maps, course catalogs, building dedications, and booklets from the past century and a half. This site and its contents were created as a student project and neither the site nor its contents are an official University of Illinois publication on University history and are not managed or produced by any University unit. The University Illinois Archives holds the official primary source documents on the University's history, from which this project was compiled.