Department of History

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

Professor Margaret O'Mara weighs in on the impact of Amazon on cities that bid to be the location of its HQ2.

Jere L. Bacharach Endowed Professor in International Studies Jordanna Bailkin on how mass movements of refugees have turned into mass detention in many liberal democracies.

 UW History Professor Margaret O'Mara is quoted in  this op-ed comparing the reputations of Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates.

UW history professor, Jordanna Bailkin, on how Britain's past refugee camps shed light on today's global refugee crisis.

Department of History Professor, Margaret O'Mara weighs in on a changing Seattle. 

Jan. 10 Trace the development of Gandhi's legacy through history to the present. With UW Department of History's Anand Yang.

Google will invest $1 billion over the next five years in organizations helping people adjust to the changing nature of work. Margaret O'Mara, a history professor at the UW, is quoted.

Laurie Marhoefer, a historian of Nazi Germany at the UW, gives commentary on the recent controversy over KUOW's interview with a Neo-nazi.