Department of History

Professor Margaret O'Mara, who researches the history of tech companies, weighs in on Amazon's reaction to conflicts.

UW faculty members Christopher Parker and Margaret O'Mara weigh in on the 2020 presidential election. 

Margaret O’Mara, a UW history professor who has studied presidential campaigns, weighs in on Inslee’s chances of becoming president.

Learn more about how the UW's Sephardic Studies Program and the department of linguistics are collaborating to keep Ladino alive. 

Analysis from Professor Laurie Marhoefer of the UW Department of History. 

So proud of our College of Arts & Sciences Fulbright recipients! Check out all the exciting places they are headed in the year ahead.

Adam Warren is an associate professor of Latin American history at the University of Washington with a special focus in science, medicine, and the study of indigenous peoples in Peru.

Professor James Gregory on the power of public history and the centenary of the 1919 Seattle General Strike

Choices that Congress made decades ago allowed tech giants to become as powerful as they are according to UW history professor Margaret O'Mara. 

Margaret O'Mara, a professor at the UW who studies U.S. electoral history weighs in on the gender breakdown in the recent elections.

Opinion piece by UW Department of History Professor, Margaret O'Mara.

A new book by University of Washington history professor George Behlmer seeks to improve understanding of the British colonial era.

Margaret O'Mara explores the impact of a December 1968 computer presentation that came to be called “the mother of all demos” in an episode of a new podcast series.

Take a look inside UW Libraries' Labor Archives of Washington — home to 3,000 cubic feet of materials — with labor archivist Conor Casey. 

 A new $250,000 fellowship at the UW Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies has been named for labor leader Frank Jenkins