Department of History

The prestigious prize recognizes Taylor’s distinguished career and his commitment to researching, preserving, and promoting the history of African Americans in the PNW.

Amazon's announcement that it's searching for a second HQ is generating a backlash in Seattle and elsewhere. Margaret O'Mara, a UW associate professor of history, is quoted. 

Quintard Taylor, professor emeritus of history, on Centralia's founding father and his unique place in history.

We've been through this drill before–for at least three decades during the Cold War years. John Findlay, professor of history at UW, is quoted.

The alt-right has an unlikely new martyr in the culture wars: A Harvard-educated engineer in the heart of Silicon Valley. Margaret O'Mara, a history professor at the UW, is quoted. 

The true cultural tipping point in the run-up to the American Revolution might not have been the Boston Tea Party, but Congress' decision to close the theaters in British America.

For UW History professor, Nathan Roberts, past is prologue. 

Assistant Professor of History, Laurie Marhoefer, on the history of gay pride marches and movements.
 

Historians of labor, working class to convene at UW

Each spring, a handful of outstanding faculty earn a special spotlight: a Distinguished Teaching Award (DTA).

UW History Department professor, Margaret O'Mara, weighs in on Mark Zuckerberg's recent commencement speech.

Relive the one-hundredth anniversary of the Everett Massacre and learn how that tragic event helped shape the labor history of Washington.

Vicente Rafael, a UW professor of Southeast Asian history, weighs in on a recent controversial essay.

Laurie Marhoefer, UW Assistant Professor of History, on a forgotten legacy of WWI: the modern gay rights movement.

Margaret O'Mara of the UW History Department weighs in.