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Big Tech was first to send workers home. Now it’s in no rush to bring them back.
May 18, 2020
Lithograph depicting an allegorical female figure assisting plague victims
“We Can’t Not Talk about It”: History Instructors Teach the Virus
May 18, 2020
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Comparing the Great Depression in Washington to the COVID-19 crisis
May 14, 2020
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
May 13, 2020
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Faculty/staff honors: Distinguished contributions to Asian studies, social equity award, Swedish physical geography honor, new Cascade Public Media director
May 6, 2020
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Opinion: The Coronavirus Could Rewrite the Rules for Silicon Valley
April 30, 2020
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UW books in brief: Chinese funerary biographies, skin lighteners through history, NYC neighborhood gentrification study, Arthurian verse-novel in translation
April 29, 2020
Patricia Ebrey
Dr. Patricia Buckley Ebrey receives the 2020 Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies Award
April 27, 2020
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Field report: Honors course explores whether national parks are in progress or peril
April 22, 2020
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In Memoriam: William Rorabaugh
April 15, 2020
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ArtSci Roundup: Earth Day with the Department of History, Colloquia Series lecture returns online, Ask Your Farmer, and more
April 15, 2020
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Faculty Friday: Mira Green
April 9, 2020
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Coronavirus Will Change the World Permanently. Here’s How.
March 19, 2020
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Opinion: America Is at War, and There’s Only One Enemy
March 18, 2020
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Coronavirus: Three lessons from the AIDS crisis
March 16, 2020
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Life in Seattle, America’s Coronavirus Capital: The crisis is forcing a tech boomtown to hit pause
March 9, 2020
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Everything Is Innovative When You Ignore the Past
March 9, 2020
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There’s a complex history of skin lighteners in Africa and beyond
March 6, 2020
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There’s a complex history of skin lighteners in Africa and beyond
March 5, 2020
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Life in Seattle, America’s Coronavirus Capital
March 5, 2020
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Meet the mystery woman who co-founded Krusteaz in Seattle … and whose story has been lost to history
February 28, 2020
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Kickstarter union seen as a breakthrough for tech activists
February 20, 2020
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Jeff Bezos Commits $10 Billion to Address Climate Change
February 17, 2020
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The Day America Went Dry: Looking Back At Prohibition 100 Years Later
February 14, 2020
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These Amazon workers love Sanders even if he trash-talks their company
February 11, 2020
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Democrats Face Off in New Hampshire in the First of 3 February Presidential Primary Debates. Here's What to Know
February 2, 2020
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Faculty Friday: Patricia Ebrey
January 30, 2020
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A West Coast union faces bankruptcy. Here’s why unions nationwide are unnerved
January 28, 2020
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The Duwamish people were here first. Should Seattleites pay them rent?
January 27, 2020
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Amazon employees launch mass defiance of company communications policy in support of colleagues
January 27, 2020
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Seattle’s hidden housing crisis: Middle-class workers forced out of the city
January 22, 2020
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Developer demolishing Keiro gives short shrift to area’s history
January 16, 2020
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Studying Seattle’s Roaring ’20s history might help us get through this next decade
January 10, 2020
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By the numbers: UW in the media in 2019
January 9, 2020
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Mindful travel, Silicon Valley’s evolution, Schumann on viola, Seattle history — UW-authored books, music for the Husky on your list
December 19, 2019
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Why Microsoft is getting behind a revolutionary plan for high-speed rail in the Pacific Northwest
December 19, 2019
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The December Democratic Debate Airs Tonight From Los Angeles. Here’s What to Know
December 19, 2019
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The Imperial Powers of the Tech Universe
December 17, 2019
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Amazon Critics Rally at Bezos NYC Penthouse for Cyber Monday
December 2, 2019
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Don't Blame Tech Bros for the Housing Crisis
November 30, 2019
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Impact of WTO Protests in Seattle Still Felt 2 Decades Later
November 28, 2019
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Opinion: Can Amazon become a responsible urban citizen?
November 14, 2019
Book covers from left to right, Arbella Bet-Schlimon's City of Black Gold, Margaret O'Mara's The Code, and Alexandra Harmon's Reclaiming the Reservation.
History Faculty Hosts an Abundance of Book Launches
November 11, 2019
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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
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UW Books in Brief: US credit markets in history, ‘value sensitive’ design, the lasting effects of reproductive slavery, and more
July 11, 2019
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Facebook should be punished, not broken up
May 16, 2019
Charity Urbanski
Professor Charity Urbanksi wins the 2019 Honors Excellence in Teaching Award 
May 9, 2019
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Lecture: Transgender Identities and the Police in Nazi Germany by Dr. Laurie Marhoefer
May 7, 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