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  With innovative and popular courses this Fall Quarter such as Global Health Histories, Modern North Africa, and World Wars I and II Digital Histories, there’s a history class for every interest.

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  Black and Indigenous History is centered in these sample lesson plans created by UW History faculty and students for high schools, community colleges, and independent study.

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News & Events

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  Undergraduate Estey Chen publishes research on telecommunications and civil liberties in Myanmar
  August 26, 2021
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  Introducing Prof. Bianca Dang
  August 23, 2021
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  Graduate student Madison Heslop receives the Charles Gates Award for article in Pacific Northwest Quarterly
  August 13, 2021
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  Undergraduate Wendi Zhou receives the 2021 Excellence in Scholarship Holocaust Paper Prize
  July 15, 2021

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Faculty Bookshelf

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  Margaret O'Mara, THE CODE
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  Robin Chapman Stacey, Law and the Imagination in Medieval Wales
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  Arbella Bet-Shlimon, City of Black Gold
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  William Rorabaugh, Prohibition: A Very Short Introduction
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  Adam Warren, Baptism through Incision: The Postmortem Cesarean Operation in the Spanish Empire
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  James Felak, The Pope in Poland: The Pilgrimages of John Paul II, 1979-1991

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