Department of History

The concepts of freedom, equality, evolution and democracy lie at the heart of “The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How they Changed the World.”

Seattle is known as home to some of the world’s most successful corporations, but also to some of the most vigorous anti-capitalist protests. UW history professor Margaret O'Mara is quoted.

Elena I. Campbell, a University of Washington associate professor of history, has published her first book, which studies Russia’s policies toward Muslims in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Joshua Reid talks about his new book, "My Country is the Sea: The Maritime World of the Makahs." Reid arrives in the fall to be a UW associate professor of history and American Indian Studies.

Ivan Doig, a history department alumnus whose books set in his native Montana made him one of the most respected writers of the American West, has died. He was 75.

To acknowledge the passing of beloved history professor Jon Bridgman (1930-2015), the College shares a 2001 profile in which he discusses his teaching, his colleagues, and more.

Details that came out during the trial may upend perhaps the most celebrated aspect of venture capitalism: investing on instinct. Margaret O'Mara, an associate professor of history is quoted.

The Labor Archives of Washington is creating an online resource called the Minimum Wage History Project to document the 2013-2014 campaign that succeeded in mandating a $15 minimum hourly wage.

In a new medieval history course, role playing is serious business as students learn about the past by living it.

Rita Zawaideh ('75), owner of a successful tour company, uses her talents and connections to organize medical missions in the Middle East.

KUOW's Speakers Forum provides audio from the debut event to open the series "Music from the War to End All Wars," planned by Robin McCabe, professor of piano. A talk by Robert Stacey, dean of arts and sciences, is featured.

In an op-ed piece, Carlos Gil, professor emeritus of history, looks at the "political tremors shaking" Mexico.

Would you have been eligible for U.S. citizenship in the late 1700s? The late 1800s? A new course looks at evolving citizenship laws and what they say about our nation.

A group of Italian American leaders this morning launched an aggressive campaign to fight the city's appropriation of Columbus Day, which on Monday the council renamed "Indigenous Peoples' Day." Adam Warren, associate professor of history, is quoted.

RadioActive youth reporter Maria Caoagdan interviewed Vicente Rafael, professor of history, for her story exploring Filipino supernatural creatures.