Announcements

UW History Celebrates LGBTQ History Month
Resources for LGBTQ History Month
October 15, 2025
profile image of Professor Quintard Taylor
Remembering Quintard Taylor
October 14, 2025
UW History Honors Hispanic Heritage Month
UW History Honors Hispanic Heritage Month
September 24, 2025
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Spring 2025 News Bites
May 21, 2025
2024 History Lecture Series
Announcing the 2024 History Lecture Series
November 14, 2023
History department Faculty and Students Win Numerous Simpson Center Awards 
June 9, 2023
Joan Ullman
In Memoriam: Joan Ullman
April 19, 2023
Dauril Alden
In Memoriam: Dauril Alden
April 17, 2023
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In Memoriam: Jere Bacharach
April 13, 2023
2022 History Department award winners
History Salutes the 2022 Department Award Winners
May 27, 2022
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Announcing the 2022 History Lecture Series: Capitalism in Action: Culture, Power, History
November 4, 2021
book cover of Menace to Empire by Moon-Ho Jung
New book forthcoming: Menace to Empire by Professor Moon-Ho Jung
November 3, 2021
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In Memoriam: Linda Nash
November 1, 2021
Madison Heslop
Graduate student Madison Heslop receives the Charles Gates Award for article in Pacific Northwest Quarterly
August 13, 2021
Suzzallo Library
The Historical Review at UW Publishes First Volume of Undergraduate Student Research
June 23, 2021
The History Department Celebrates the 2021 Student Award and Scholarship Winners
May 21, 2021
Reconstructed wall fragment from an Achaemenid palace at Susa, ca. 500 B.C., now housed at the Louvre.
Launching Ancient Iran: A Digital Platform
March 22, 2021
Statement of Solidarity
June 9, 2020
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In Memoriam: William Rorabaugh
April 15, 2020
2020 History Lecture Series poster
History Lecture Series 2020: Life, Death, and the Gods. Poster Revealed and Tickets Available Now!
December 3, 2019
Charity Urbanski
Professor Charity Urbanksi wins the 2019 Honors Excellence in Teaching Award 
May 9, 2019
Department of History Chair, Professor Anand Yang
Spring Message from Department Chair
April 29, 2019
Summer Study
Teaching Outside the Book in the Department of History: A Trio of Classes Emphasizing Nontraditional Media, Coming This Summer
April 18, 2019
Conlon's
Introducing the Frank and Joan Conlon Endowed Graduate Student Fellowship.
November 20, 2018
Graduate Program Welcomes New Cohort and New Director of Graduate Studies.
November 20, 2018
Karyl Winn
Preserving the Past with an Eye to the Future. Remembering Karyl Winn.
November 20, 2018
HLS 2019 Banner
History Lecture Series 2019: Challenging Gender. Tickets Now on Sale!
November 20, 2018
Library Books
A Banner Year For Faculty Books
October 19, 2018
Professor Joel Walker
Professor Joel Walker receives UW Honors Excellence in Teaching award.
June 4, 2018
Library Books
Could you be next? - Apply for The Library Research Award Today!
April 17, 2018
Husky 100 recipient Hannah Fumiko Takemori
Undergraduate Historian Makes the Husky 100
April 6, 2018
Department of History Chair, Professor Anand Yang
Spring Message from Anand Yang, Chair, Department of History
April 6, 2018
Department of History, Doctoral Candidate Michael Aguirre
Graduate Students Working Towards a More Democratic Society  
March 6, 2018
Serafin and Kum Cha at the Annual Awards of Excellence ceremony
Smith Hall Staff Recognized for Excellence
March 3, 2018
Quintard Taylor
Department of History's Quintard Taylor wins lifetime achievement award.
February 23, 2018
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Event Spotlight: Putting The Past to Use, #historyconnects.
February 20, 2018
HLS 2018
History Lecture Series 2018 begins - live recording here!
January 11, 2018
HLS 2018
History Lecture Series 2018. Speaking Truth to Power: Protest and Dissent in Modern History.
December 7, 2017
History Notebook
Upcoming Alumni Career Panel Encourages Huskies to Make History!  
November 8, 2017
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In Memoriam: Robert J. C. Butow (1924-2017)
November 3, 2017
'Why Race Matters' flyer
Event Spotlight: Continuing the Conversation “Why Race Matters: Resistance and Resilience” in 2017 America
October 10, 2017
Image of Haitian Vodou Flag depicting 2010 earthquake.
As We Begin Our Autumn Quarter
September 26, 2017
PhD Candidate Arna Elezovic
Antiquity, Empires, Artifacts, and Archaeologists Come Together in a New Summer Course
June 12, 2017
LGBTQ Activism in Seattle website screenshot
New History Project: LGBTQ Activism in Seattle
October 6, 2016
Anand Yang
Letter from the Chair, Spring, 2016
May 1, 2016
History Fellows with photo booth props
Declare Your History Major in Autumn 2016!
March 25, 2016
Lynn Thomas
Letter from the Chair, Spring, 2015
May 1, 2015
Stephanie Camp memorial poster, "Ever Closer to Freedom"
Conference Honoring the Work of Stephanie Camp: May 7 & 8
April 16, 2015
New hires collage
Department Announces Three New Faculty Members
March 27, 2015
Boycott German Goods poster
New Course: The Holocaust and American Life
March 19, 2015