Department of History

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.

UW history professor, Jim Gregory, on the election, activism, and historical perspective.

KOMO Radio's Herb Weisbaum interviews Glennys Young, professor of history and international studies at the UW, about U.S. relations with Russia.

UW senior Rhoya Sarikhani Selden explored her Persian heritage in a play that celebrates Iranian Americans from diverse backgrounds. 

A Suzzallo Library exhibit created by history grad student Jessica Bachman highlights Cold War-era cultural ties between India and the USSR. 

UW professor Quintard Taylor is blowing students’ minds in class and with his website devoted to black history.

Margaret O'Mara, associate professor of history, is interviewed on "The National" on the history of signing executive orders in a president's first week in office.