Courses

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UW History Undergrads Confront Ableism, Racism, and Transphobia Through Research
May 29, 2025
How medieval monsters got their meaning
How medieval monsters got their meaning
November 4, 2024
Professor Aditya Ramesh
Getting to Know Aditya Ramesh, Professor of South Asia and Environmental History
May 15, 2024
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Rethinking the Conference: Jews Amidst the Embers  
August 2, 2023
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New Huskies 2023 Arts and Sciences Events
March 3, 2023
Honoring American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month
Honoring American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month
November 13, 2022
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Celebrating Pride Month
May 31, 2022
2022 History Honors cohort
History Honors and a Focus on Local History
May 27, 2022
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Explore Your World - Check out these Autumn 2022 courses
May 26, 2022
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Lessons from Bollywood
March 8, 2022
Washington University Students Posing
New Huskies 2022 Arts and Sciences Events
March 1, 2022
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Department of History and UW Continuum College Team Up for Distance Learning Innovation
November 22, 2021
"The Church of Techno-Optimism" by artist Michael DeForge
Cool History Courses in Winter 2022
November 4, 2021
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Cool history courses forthcoming Autumn 2021
May 22, 2021
2020: The Course
2020: The Course
December 1, 2020
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Teaching digital history on the two World Wars
November 24, 2020
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History faculty debut brand new courses in Winter 2021
November 2, 2020
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“We Can’t Not Talk about It”: History Instructors Teach the Virus
May 18, 2020
Field report: Honors course explores whether national parks are in progress or peril
Field report: Honors course explores whether national parks are in progress or peril
April 22, 2020
Summer Study
Teaching Outside the Book in the Department of History: A Trio of Classes Emphasizing Nontraditional Media, Coming This Summer
April 18, 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
UWcourses
A Deep Dive into History’s Spring Quarter Course Catalog
February 14, 2019
Winter books
Winter is Here. Where Will it Take You? Exciting Courses on Offer Next Quarter.
November 20, 2018
The History Honors students present their research.
Encouraging the Historians of the Future
April 6, 2018
HSTAA 345 - US Political and Economic History 1920 - Present
Historicizing Our Own Political and Economic Worlds: HSTAA 345 US Political and Economic History 1920-Present
March 12, 2018
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Course Spotlight: HSTCMP 313 Science in Civilization: Physics and Astrophysics Since 1850
October 16, 2017