In the Press

Podcast: Revisiting Microsoft's startup years, in search of new insights

(November 15, 2024)

If free trade isn't free, what's next for Washington's economy?

(November 13, 2024)

How medieval monsters got their meaning

(November 4, 2024)

Montage image featuring seven past presidents, from George Washington to Barack Obama.

Is This Presidential Campaign Different?

(October 28, 2024)

UW historian on medieval European monsters, and the meaning of monsters

(October 23, 2024)

Podcast: Uber + Expedia? Ballmer on 60 Minutes; 1980s Silicon Valley revisited; What's next for AI

(October 21, 2024)

Arts & Sciences Guide to UW Family Weekend

(October 18, 2024)

Christopher Columbus may have been a Spanish Jew, documentary claims

(October 16, 2024)

Dawg Daze 2024 Digest

(September 12, 2024)

Why we’re obsessed with killer AI like in the new movie “AfrAId”

(September 3, 2024)

Analysis: Remembering the longest journey to Auschwitz — the deportation of Rhodes’ Jews decimated a small but vibrant community with centuries of Mediterranean history

(August 6, 2024)

Throughline: The Creeping Coup

(July 18, 2024)

Analysis: Behind America’s first comprehensive federal immigration law

(July 9, 2024)

News Bits: Spring 2024

(May 28, 2024)

What a 32-hour workweek looks like in San Juan County

(May 28, 2024)

A ship at the center of the Gulf of Tonkin incident brings naval history to life in Bremerton

(May 17, 2024)

2024 Husky 100

(May 1, 2024)

Washington seeks to fix discrimination from racially restrictive property deeds

(April 30, 2024)

Election may push people to move for cheaper homes, similar neighbors

(March 22, 2024)

Yes, JK Rowling, the Nazis did persecute trans people

(March 21, 2024)

It seems like everyone you know is moving — they're not

(February 12, 2024)

Washington state researching racist property covenants from past

(January 26, 2024)

How are vice presidential picks usually selected?

(January 24, 2024)

What happened to Seattle's relationship with Boeing?

(January 19, 2024)

Professor John Findlay presents lecture on history of immigration and citizenship in Seattle

(January 17, 2024)

WA’s Sudanese community suffering amid war that’s displaced millions

(January 4, 2024)

Americans dislike tech billionaires, but still want to be like them

(December 27, 2023)

Prominent women in tech say they don't want to join OpenAI's all-male board

(November 29, 2023)

Opinion: Social media and mental health –– seeing through the fog in the midst of conflict

(November 8, 2023)

Faculty News Bits

(November 6, 2023)

There will be another Sam Bankman-Fried

(November 3, 2023)

Tacoma police trial in Manuel Ellis' death holds echoes of 1938 killing

(November 2, 2023)

Sam Altman warns AI could kill us all — but he still wants the world to use it

(October 31, 2023)

I am First-Generation: Andrea Woody

(October 19, 2023)

Understanding the Hamas-Israel war through history and human rights

(October 18, 2023)

I am First Generation: Sariah Burdett

(October 7, 2023)

Portraits of first generation students UW faculty and staff

We are First-Generation: College of Arts & Sciences Faculty and Staff

(October 5, 2023)

Why Silicon Valley falls for frauds

(October 2, 2023)

Dawg Daze Digest: Planetarium Shows, Art Tours, Trivia, Information Sessions and more!

(September 8, 2023)

Opinion: Filipinos exhibited at 1904 World's Fair docked in Tacoma

(September 6, 2023)

How 'Oppenheimer' connects back to Washington state

(July 21, 2023)

Redlining continues to reverberate in Seattle nearly a century later in pedestrian deaths

(July 5, 2023)

Four Dean's Medalists, Working Toward Change

(June 26, 2023)

Analysis: Historians are learning more about how the Nazis targeted trans people

(June 5, 2023)

An ariel view of the University of Washington Quad during cherry blossom time looking out towards the downtown Seattle

The Wide World of History: Updates from the History Community

(May 16, 2023)

Who is Sam Altman? The man behind ChatGPT is about to have his moment on Capitol Hill

(May 15, 2023)

The Unexpected Journey of Tevye's Ottoman Daughter

(May 15, 2023)

History of deadly Japanese balloon bomb in World War II

(May 4, 2023)

Analysis: Sudan's plunge into chaos has geopolitical implications near and far - including for US strategic goals

(April 30, 2023)

Silicon Valley can't quit Saudi Arabia money, even after Jamal Khashoggi murder

(April 30, 2023)