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Big Tech was first to send workers home. Now it’s in no rush to bring them back.
Lithograph depicting an allegorical female figure assisting plague victims
“We Can’t Not Talk about It”: History Instructors Teach the Virus
Comparing the Great Depression in Washington to the COVID-19 crisis
Book cover for Lynn Thomas's Beneath the Surface: A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners
UW History Professors Investigate Global Histories of Health in New Books
Portrait photo of Racquel West
Husky 100 Recipient Racquel West on Being a History Major and Graduating in a Pandemic
Faculty/staff honors: Distinguished contributions to Asian studies, social equity award, Swedish physical geography honor, new Cascade Public Media director
Opinion: The Coronavirus Could Rewrite the Rules for Silicon Valley
Dr. Jennifer Thomson: Gaia Has A Fever
UW books in brief: Chinese funerary biographies, skin lighteners through history, NYC neighborhood gentrification study, Arthurian verse-novel in translation
Patricia Ebrey
Dr. Patricia Buckley Ebrey receives the 2020 Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies Award
Field report: Honors course explores whether national parks are in progress or peril
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In Memoriam: William Rorabaugh
ArtSci Roundup: Earth Day with the Department of History, Colloquia Series lecture returns online, Ask Your Farmer, and more
Faculty Friday: Mira Green
Coronavirus Will Change the World Permanently. Here’s How.
Opinion: America Is at War, and There’s Only One Enemy
Coronavirus: Three lessons from the AIDS crisis
Life in Seattle, America’s Coronavirus Capital: The crisis is forcing a tech boomtown to hit pause
Everything Is Innovative When You Ignore the Past
There’s a complex history of skin lighteners in Africa and beyond
Vancouver waterfront by C. Stenerson courtesy of flickr
Rogues Of Vancouver
There’s a complex history of skin lighteners in Africa and beyond
Life in Seattle, America’s Coronavirus Capital
Meet the mystery woman who co-founded Krusteaz in Seattle … and whose story has been lost to history
Kickstarter union seen as a breakthrough for tech activists