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Professor Joel Walker receives UW Honors Excellence in Teaching award.

June 4, 2018

Outstanding Students Recognized at Annual Department of History Awards Ceremony.

May 28, 2018

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Faculty Bookshelf

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  Anand Yang, Thirteen Months in China: A Subaltern Indian and the Colonial World
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  Polly Myers, Capitalist Family Values: Gender, Work, and Corporate Culture at Boeing
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  Margaret O'Mara, Pivotal Tuesdays: Four Elections That Shaped the Twentieth Century
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  Patricia Ebrey, Emperor Huizong
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  Matthew W. Mosca, From Frontier Policy to Foreign Policy: The Question of India and the Transformation of Geopolitics in Qing China
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  William Rorabaugh, Prohibition: A Concise History

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