Lectures and Events

Christopher Bonura
A Prophecy of Empire
November 12, 2025
Cover of Transgender Tapestry magazine Issue 87, Summer 1999
UW History Undergrads Confront Ableism, Racism, and Transphobia Through Research
May 29, 2025
HLS 2025 River Histories
HLS 2025: River Histories
February 19, 2025
2024 History Lecture Series
Announcing the 2024 History Lecture Series
November 14, 2023
conference attendees sit around a long table in discussion
Rethinking the Conference: Jews Amidst the Embers  
August 2, 2023
Medieval Made Modern
Watch the 2023 History Lecture Series: Medieval Made Modern
February 22, 2023
Celebrate Black History Month
Black History Month Reading List
February 15, 2023
Assyrian men
Voices from the Margins: Assyrian History on Display at UW
December 1, 2022
Retirement reception, 2022
History Hosts Reception in Honor of Recent Retirees
May 27, 2022
image of a Tea Shop in Canton_visual for 2022 History Lecture Series
Announcing the 2022 History Lecture Series: Capitalism in Action: Culture, Power, History
November 4, 2021
Tiya Miles Headshot, photo credit: Kimberly Mitchell of the Detroit Free Press.
The 2021 Stephanie Camp Memorial Lecture with Tiya Miles (Harvard)
May 21, 2021
Sports and Civil Rights History Panel Zoom Screenshot
Sports & Civil Rights History Panel
May 14, 2021
Photo of Buck O’Neil courtesy of the Negro League Baseball Museum
Commemorating the Centennial of the Negro Baseball Leagues
December 4, 2020
Safari Nation Cover
"Safari Nation" Book Talk From Historian Jacob Dlamini
November 13, 2020
History Hosts Panel on Executive Power and Deploying Federal Officers
August 21, 2020
History Behind the Headlines panel discusses crises throughout history in light of COVID-19
June 9, 2020
Library of Congress
Nancy Bristow Lecture on the 1918 Influenza Pandemic and COVID-19
June 3, 2020
Recaptured Africans Book Cover Sharla Fett
6th Annual Stephanie Camp Memorial Lecture given by Professor Sharla Fett
June 2, 2020
Dr. Jennifer Thomson: Gaia Has A Fever
April 29, 2020
2020 History Lecture Series poster
History Lecture Series 2020: Life, Death, and the Gods. Poster Revealed and Tickets Available Now!
December 3, 2019
Poster for the Horn of Africa Initiative
History Students and Faculty Team Up with Local Communities for the Horn of Africa Initiative
November 18, 2019
This Years Award Winners
Celebrating Success at The 2019 History Awards Ceremony
May 30, 2019
Lecture: Transgender Identities and the Police in Nazi Germany by Dr. Laurie Marhoefer
May 7, 2019
portrait of woman
The Year So Far: Department News & Notes for 2018-19
April 18, 2019
Ancient Iran
Ancient Iran Day: Another Side of the Ancient World
April 18, 2019
Faculty Lecture
Faculty Lecture 2019: Professor Emeritus Quintard Taylor on African American Women Who Changed the World
April 17, 2019
HLS 2019 Banner
History Lecture Series 2019: Challenging Gender. Tickets Now on Sale!
November 20, 2018
HLS 2019 Banner
History Lecture Series 2019 Title Announced! Challenging Gender.  
November 9, 2018
Outstanding Students Recognized at Annual Department of History Awards Ceremony.
May 28, 2018
2018 HLS Logo with a raised fist on a blue background with sunbursts radiating from it
History that Speaks to Your Moment
April 6, 2018
W at the entrance of campus
Event Spotlight: Putting The Past to Use, #historyconnects.
February 20, 2018
HLS 2018
The Power of Protest? The 2018 History Lecture Series in Retrospect.
February 8, 2018
Professor Reid
History Lecture Series 2018 Comes to a Close - Final Video Here!
February 1, 2018
Lecture Series 3
History Lecture Series - Latest Video Here!
January 25, 2018
Lauri M
History Lecture Series Continues - Live Recording Here!
January 18, 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
'Why Race Matters' flyer
Event Spotlight: Continuing the Conversation “Why Race Matters: Resistance and Resilience” in 2017 America
October 10, 2017
The Pulitzer prize-winning historian Heather Ann Thompson is speaking with Julie Green, Chelsea Nelson, and Kelly Lytle Hernandez about mass Incarceration and the working class during the opening plenary session. Credit: Herman Gilman.
Labor and Working-Class History Association Holds Conference at the UW
July 28, 2017
Images from “Why Race Matters: U.S. Politics in the 2016 Elections.”
Race and Racial Justice in the Context of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election 
June 8, 2017
Doctoral student Jessica Bachman standing in front of the exhibit she curated, Bollywood and Bolsheviks
Bollywood and Bolsheviks Exhibit Opens at Allen Library
June 7, 2017
History TV setting up cameras at lecture
Lights, Cameras, History!
March 5, 2017
Excavating Seattle's Past: 2016 History Lecture Series in Retrospect
March 25, 2016
2016 Honors in History Presentations agenda
Winter 2016 Honors in History Presentations
March 1, 2016
Visiting Professor Christopher Browning
UW Welcomes Visiting Professor Christopher Browning
October 28, 2015
Stephanie Camp memorial poster, "Ever Closer to Freedom"
Conference Honoring the Work of Stephanie Camp: May 7 & 8
April 16, 2015
Organizers Stephanie Smallwood (right) and Ralina Joseph
History in Action: Department Supports Ferguson Teach-In
February 10, 2015
Alumni panel at "Careers Outside Academia" workshop
Life Outside the Ivied Walls: History Alumni Return to Share Their Experiences
February 9, 2015
Hanford B Reactor, 1940s
UW History Professors facilitate NEH workshops, Atomic West, Atomic World
September 13, 2014
Lecture poster: The Great War and the Modern World
Fall 2014 History Lecture Series, "The Great War and the Modern World" Begins Nov 5th
September 12, 2014