You are here

News: In the Press

Read more
Life in Seattle, America’s Coronavirus Capital: The crisis is forcing a tech boomtown to hit pause
March 9, 2020
Read more
There’s a complex history of skin lighteners in Africa and beyond
March 6, 2020
Vancouver waterfront by C. Stenerson courtesy of flickr
Rogues Of Vancouver
March 6, 2020
Read more
Meet the mystery woman who co-founded Krusteaz in Seattle … and whose story has been lost to history
February 28, 2020
Read more
Kickstarter union seen as a breakthrough for tech activists
February 20, 2020
Read more
Jeff Bezos Commits $10 Billion to Address Climate Change
February 17, 2020
Prohibition AP Photo
The Day America Went Dry: Looking Back At Prohibition 100 Years Later
February 14, 2020
Read more
These Amazon workers love Sanders even if he trash-talks their company
February 11, 2020
Read more
Democrats Face Off in New Hampshire in the First of 3 February Presidential Primary Debates. Here's What to Know
February 2, 2020
Read more
Faculty Friday: Patricia Ebrey
January 30, 2020
Read more
A West Coast union faces bankruptcy. Here’s why unions nationwide are unnerved
January 28, 2020
Read more
The Duwamish people were here first. Should Seattleites pay them rent?
January 27, 2020
Read more
Amazon employees launch mass defiance of company communications policy in support of colleagues
January 27, 2020
Read more
Seattle’s hidden housing crisis: Middle-class workers forced out of the city
January 22, 2020
Read more
Developer demolishing Keiro gives short shrift to area’s history
January 16, 2020
Read more
Studying Seattle’s Roaring ’20s history might help us get through this next decade
January 10, 2020
Read more
By the numbers: UW in the media in 2019
January 9, 2020
Read more
Mindful travel, Silicon Valley’s evolution, Schumann on viola, Seattle history — UW-authored books, music for the Husky on your list
December 19, 2019
Read more
Why Microsoft is getting behind a revolutionary plan for high-speed rail in the Pacific Northwest
December 19, 2019
Read more
The December Democratic Debate Airs Tonight From Los Angeles. Here’s What to Know
December 19, 2019
Read more
The Imperial Powers of the Tech Universe
December 17, 2019
Read more
Exploring the Curious Sources of Medieval Law: An Interview with Acclaimed Historian Robin Chapman Stacey
December 3, 2019
Read more
Investigating Technology and the Remaking of America
December 3, 2019
Read more
Opinion: Don’t Blame Tech Bros for the Housing Crisis
December 3, 2019
Read more
Amazon Critics Rally at Bezos NYC Penthouse for Cyber Monday
December 2, 2019
Read more
Don't Blame Tech Bros for the Housing Crisis
November 30, 2019
Read more
Impact of WTO Protests in Seattle Still Felt 2 Decades Later
November 28, 2019
Read more
Opinion: Can Amazon become a responsible urban citizen?
November 14, 2019
Read more
University of Washington Named Best for History Majors in State
November 5, 2019
Racquel West
A Museum Mission
November 5, 2019
Racquel West framed by shelves of storage at the Burke Museum.
A Museum Mission
November 3, 2019
Read more
The Church of Techno-Optimism
October 1, 2019
Read more
Faculty Spotlight: Charity Urbanski
August 30, 2019
Read more
National attention, praise for new Silicon Valley history ‘The Code’ by UW historian Margaret O’Mara
July 15, 2019
Margaret O'Mara on MSNBC
'The Code' looks at big tech's role in remaking America
July 11, 2019
Read more
UW Books in Brief: US credit markets in history, ‘value sensitive’ design, the lasting effects of reproductive slavery, and more
July 11, 2019
Read more
Podcast | Biography of Silicon Valley
July 10, 2019
Read more
Letting the internet regulate itself was a good idea–in the 1990s
July 9, 2019
Read more
Facebook should be punished, not broken up
May 16, 2019
Omara
Why we need history majors to understand our future
April 24, 2019
QuinNita Gonzaga
A New Voice in Eastern Washington. Department of History alumni, Quin'Nita Cobbins-Modica, and her role at Gonzaga University. 
April 22, 2019
Urbanski
Raising their Voices: Seen Through the Eyes of Charity Urbanski, Senior Lecturer in History, the Women of Medieval Europe Have a Lot to Teach Today’s Students
March 25, 2019
Devin Narr
Department of History's Devin Naar featured in documentary at Seattle's Jewish Film Festival.
March 20, 2019
Read more
Amazon’s Hard Bargain Extends Far Beyond New York
March 5, 2019
Read more
Jay Inslee is running for president. Does he have a shot?
March 1, 2019
Read more
Jay Inslee announces climate-focused 2020 presidential run. Does he stand a chance?
March 1, 2019
Read more
Do you speak Ladino? Meet the folks trying to save a dying language
February 26, 2019
Read more
The Freddie Mercury story that goes untold in 'Bohemian Rhapsody'
February 26, 2019
Read more
The Freddie Mercury story that goes untold in ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’
February 25, 2019
the quad with cherry blossoms
University of Washington is a top producer of Fulbright recipients
February 21, 2019
Read more
Faculty Friday: Adam Warren
February 7, 2019
Read more
UW to mark centennial of 1919 Seattle General Strike
February 1, 2019
Read more
Ahead of its 100th anniversary, revisiting the Seattle General Strike and the city’s long legacy of organized labor
January 23, 2019
Read more
Even blue-chip companies fail. Here’s how to save their workers, and towns, when they do.
January 11, 2019
Read more
The deed to your Seattle-area home may contain racist language. Here’s how to fix it.
January 8, 2019
Read more
A Warning From Seattle to Amazon’s HQ2
January 8, 2019
Read more
Interview: New Books In The American West
January 8, 2019
Read more
The End of Privacy Began in the 1960s
January 8, 2019
Read more
How the Vietnam War Empowered the Hippie Movement
January 8, 2019
Read more
The Tech Talent is Rumbling in Silicon Valley
January 8, 2019
Read more
The End of Privacy Began in the 1960s
December 5, 2018
Map
Department of History Professor James Gregory on the history of 'Redlining' in Seattle. 
November 13, 2018
Read more
Electing a Record Number of Women to Congress Is Great. But It’s Not the Goal
November 7, 2018
Read more
Silicon Valley can't escape the business of war
October 29, 2018
Library Books
A Banner Year For Faculty Books
October 19, 2018
Professor George Behlmer
Race, empire, agency explored in UW history professor’s book ‘Risky Shores: Savagery and Colonialism in the Western Pacific’
October 10, 2018
Read more
UW historian Margaret O'Mara discusses famous 1968 computer mouse 'demo' – and the start of Silicon Valley – for new podcast by The Conversation
September 20, 2018
Read more
Working class heroes: A look inside the Labor Archives of Washington
August 31, 2018
Read more
Labor leader Frank Jenkins honored with UW fellowship
August 14, 2018
Read more
Amazon HQ2 bid is already paying off for some cities
August 1, 2018
Read more
How refugees in Britain went from living in old bunkers and stately homes to being detained in cells
July 19, 2018
Read more
Barbs for Bezos but Bill Gates largely admired in Seattle
July 3, 2018
Read more
Refugees, citizens and camps: A very British history
June 21, 2018
Department of History, Doctoral Candidate Michael Aguirre
Cinco de Mayo and Cultural Appropriation - an interview with graduate student Michael Aguirre 
May 5, 2018
Award Winnning Faculty Quintard Taylor and Laurie Marhoefer
Home of Award-Winning Faculty
April 6, 2018
Read more
Boomtown Seattle: Why we move here–and how we're all in it together
February 22, 2018
Laurie M
Award Winning Faculty: Congratulations Laurie Marhoefer!  
January 8, 2018
Read more
2018 History Lecture Series
January 4, 2018
Ross Coen in the archive
When History Has More To Say
January 3, 2018
Read more
Google to give #1 billion to nonprofits and help Americans get jobs in the new economy
October 16, 2017
Read more
Neo-Nazis 'provoke violence, get a media platform'
September 25, 2017
Read more
Professor Emeritus Quintard Taylor Awarded Robert Gray Medal by WA State Historical Society
September 14, 2017
Read more
A race to the bottom? Amazon stirs debate by soliciting tax credits for second headquarters
September 12, 2017
Read more
200 years later, Centralia celebrates its very own George Washington
August 15, 2017
Read more
Worried about a nuke dropping on Seattle? Old news — we spent the Cold War years preparing
August 15, 2017
Read more
Alt-right finds a new hero: ex-Googler James Damore
August 15, 2017
Read more
Run-up to revolution: Early American history seen through the stage in Odai Johnson’s book ‘London in a Box’
July 28, 2017
Read more
Military's transgender challenges are reminder of race, gender struggles
July 28, 2017
Read more
From gay Nazi to "we're here, we're queer": A century of arguing about gay pride
June 27, 2017
Read more
'Scales of Struggle'
June 8, 2017
Distinguished Teacher Awards 2017
Of the highest grade
June 5, 2017
Read more
Mark Zuckerberg has a Harvard degree and a mission: create a sense of purpose
May 31, 2017
Read more
Labor Archives: Everett Massacre
May 23, 2017
Read more
'My Family's Slave'– can Alex Tizon be forgiven for his sins?
May 19, 2017
Read more
The forgotten origins of the modern gay rights movement in WWI
May 15, 2017
Read more
The epic and bizarre first 110 days of the Trump presidency
May 12, 2017
Quintard Taylor teaching
Faculty Featured in Local, National News Media
April 24, 2017
Read more
'Panic' over Trump takes us to activism we haven’t seen in 157 years
April 13, 2017
Read more
Historical reference for US relations with Russia
April 12, 2017
Professor James Gregory
Professor James Gregory Interviewed by KUOW
March 28, 2017
Jessica Bachman with Indian actor-director Randhir Kapoor in India.
Bollywood & Bolsheviks Visit Suzzallo
March 14, 2017
History TV setting up cameras at lecture
Lights, Cameras, History!
March 5, 2017
Quintard Taylor teaching
Quintard Taylor Featured in Pacific NW Magazine
February 26, 2017
Read more
CBC's 'The National' | UW historian Margaret O'Mara on the historical significance of President Trump's executive orders
January 30, 2017
Read more
Has Seattle always been so progressive?
January 26, 2017
Read more
Startup stories: Join us for a discussion on what it is like in the entrepreneurial trenches
January 24, 2017
Read more
Why some protests change the world (and why they sometimes fail)
January 24, 2017
Read more
The historical problem with talking about a president's first 100 days
January 24, 2017
Read more
An open letter from urban affairs and housing scholars to the Senate: Reject Ben Carson as HUD Secretary
January 11, 2017
Read more
Historians in the Age of Trump
January 9, 2017
Read more
The best Northwest nonfiction of 2016
December 27, 2016
collage of scientific advancements
Science Through a Humanist Lens
December 14, 2016
Read more
Here’s Why You Should Attend Xconomy Intersect on Thursday
December 6, 2016
Read more
Seattle historian sees two reasons to hope in the face of hate
November 28, 2016
History Grad Student Jennifer Smith Featured by the College of Arts & Sciences
November 17, 2016
Read more
Here’s how Seattle became so segregated
November 7, 2016
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton
It's Not as Bad as You Think
November 2, 2016
Read more
Voter indecision: Follow two local voters struggling to select a presidential candidate
October 10, 2016
LGBTQ Activism in Seattle website screenshot
New History Project: LGBTQ Activism in Seattle
October 6, 2016
Read more
Get smarter than the spin after the first Clinton-Trump debate
September 28, 2016
Read more
Why is Seattle so racially segregated?
September 22, 2016
Read more
This environmentalist (grudgingly) sides with Trump on trade debate
September 19, 2016
Read more
Trump coming to enemy territory (aka Washington state)
September 1, 2016
Read more
Trump coming to enemy territory (aka Washington state)
August 29, 2016
Read more
UW will host 2017 summer institute on teaching urban environmental issues
August 22, 2016
Read more
Historians find UO’s founder held racist views, though not consistently
August 12, 2016
Read more
Think these conventions were bad for unity? You should have been watching in 1924
July 28, 2016
Read more
Seattle-area women: Clinton nomination an emotional milestone, but double standard endures
July 28, 2016
Read more
Why so few women have run for president of the United States
July 27, 2016
Read more
Former Oregon Lumber Town Rides Digital Wave to a Comeback
July 26, 2016
Read more
Post-convention, Washington Republicans still split over Trump
July 23, 2016
Read more
The Worst Convention in U.S. History?
July 22, 2016
Read more
A Year to Be Forgotten
July 22, 2016
Read more
Trump: The College Years
July 3, 2016
U.S. map of social movements
Digital History Initiative: Mapping American Social Movements Through the 20th Century
March 3, 2016
Quintard Taylor
Emeritus Professor Quintard Taylor Featured in KPLU Article
March 3, 2016
Devin Naar holding Ladino artifact
Professor Devin Naar is "almost single-handedly saving the Ladino language."
August 11, 2014
Kathleen Noll (Photo credit: Isaiah Brookshire)
History Student Kathleen Noll Named 2014 Dean's Medalist in Social Sciences
June 27, 2014
Arbella Bet-Shlimon
Op-Ed on the Fall of Kirkuk to Kurdish Forces
June 16, 2014
Professor Margaret O'Mara
History Professor Margaret O'Mara Talks Tech on "GeekWire" Radio Show
April 3, 2014
Professor Devin Naar
Reviving the Language and Culture of Sephardic Jews
March 10, 2014
Quintard Taylor
Prof. Quintard Taylor's African American History Website featured by USA Today
March 10, 2014
Professor Jung Interviewed About History of Sugar in America
February 18, 2014
Professor James Gregory
Prof. James Gregory featured in CNN piece on Washington State and Workers' Rights
February 7, 2014
Vicente Rafael being interviewed
Translation: An Interview with Vicente Rafael
January 6, 2014
Read more
Professor Vincente Rafael on rich history of Tacloban
November 14, 2013
Cover of "Plutopia"
History News Network Features UW Alum
October 29, 2013
Lecture poster
UW Today on the History Lecture Series
September 26, 2013
Read more
Cities are the Living Embodiments of Past Decisions
April 22, 2013
Share