Department of History

It's very intense to teach the history of another recent pandemic that's still shaping our lives right now with a pandemic shaping out lives in historically unprecedented ways.

Parallels are drawn between the 1920s great depression and today's Coronavirus manufactured depression. James Gregory of the UW's History Department is quoted.

Lynn Thomas and Adam Warren published new books dealing with histories of health in "Beneath the Surface: A Transnationial History of Skin Lightners."

Various faculty and staff members are honored for their contributions to a variety of subjects, including social equity, Asian studies, and Swedish physical geography.

History Professor Margaret O'Mara looks back at the automobile industry's response to the Great Depression to predict how the coronavirus will effect big tech players.

Recent notable books by University of Washington faculty members look at gentrification and inequity in a New York neighborhood, skin lighteners though history, female agency in Arthurian legend and biographical epitaphs in China across many centuries.

Nine and faculty seized the opportunity in this course to explore national parks, analyze their findings, and decide whether or not those parks are in danger.

This week at the UW, one can virtually tune in to events surrounding Earth Day, art history, and Scandanavian studies.

Mira Green, history lecturer, is featured in this week's edition of "Faculty Friday."

Margaret O'Mara, history professor, explains the long-term effects the coronavirus epidemic could have on how we view big government.

Margaret O'Mara, history professor, discusses the Defense Protection Act and other extreme measures the US government could take to manage the coronavirus pandemic.

Associate professor of history, Laurie Marhoefer, discusses what lessons from the US government's management of the AIDS crisis can be applied to the coronavirus pandemic.

Margaret O'Mara, history professor, discusses how the tech industry often fails to look backward in history.

Margaret O'Mara, history professor, writes about what life is like in Seattle, epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in the US.

History Professor Lynn Thomas discusses the racist history of skin lightening products, many of which contain dangerous mercury.