Lectures and Events

2024 History Lecture Series
Announcing the 2024 History Lecture Series
(November 14, 2023)
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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)
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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)
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History Hosts Panel on Executive Power and Deploying Federal Officers
(August 21, 2020)
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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)
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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)
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Lecture: Transgender Identities and the Police in Nazi Germany by Dr. Laurie Marhoefer
(May 7, 2019)
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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)
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History Lecture Series 2019: Challenging Gender. Tickets Now on Sale!
(November 20, 2018)
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History Lecture Series 2019 Title Announced! Challenging Gender.  
(November 9, 2018)
Outstanding Students Recognized at Annual Department of History Awards Ceremony.
(May 28, 2018)
Department of History 2018 Lecture Series Logo
History that Speaks to Your Moment
(April 6, 2018)
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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)
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History Lecture Series 2018 Comes to a Close - Final Video Here!
(February 1, 2018)
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History Lecture Series - Latest Video Here!
(January 25, 2018)
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History Lecture Series Continues - Live Recording Here!
(January 18, 2018)
HLS 2018
History Lecture Series 2018 begins - live recording here!
(January 11, 2018)
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Award Winning Faculty: Congratulations Laurie Marhoefer!  
(January 8, 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)
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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)
Organization of American Historians distinguished lecturers
Distinguished Lecturers
(July 7, 2014)
wooden boat
Research by UW History Students Helps Shape Exhibit on Seattle's Historic Wooden Fishing Boats
(February 13, 2014)