Research

Senate Republicans accuse tech CEOs of anti-conservative bias in hearing on ‘26 words that created the internet’

(October 30, 2020)

COVID-19. Social unrest. Election Day. Where does 2020 stack up against other chaotic times in U.S. history — and where do we go from here?

(October 30, 2020)

Glennys Young appears in documentary on Cold War CIA interrogation program in Spain

(October 16, 2020)

Citizens of Scandal: Journalism, Secrecy, and the Politics of Reckoning in Mexico by Vanessa Freije

Professor Vanessa Freije Publishes Citizens of Scandal: Journalism, Secrecy, and the Politics of Reckoning in Mexico

(October 15, 2020)

UW secures competitive $1 million Luce Foundation grant to advance Southeast Asian research and community engagement

(October 5, 2020)

ArtSci Roundup: Velvet Sweatshops and Algorithmic Cruelty, Social Movements & Racial Justice, the Vice Presidential Debate Preview, and More

(September 29, 2020)

Cover image of Professor George K. Behlmer's book "Risky Shores: Savagery and Colonialism in the Western Pacific" published by Stanford University Press in 2018

Professor George Behlmer's award-winning book receives Featured Review in AHR

(September 24, 2020)

What Science and Technology Owe the National Defense

(September 9, 2020)

UW professors give insights on the past, present, and future of Ladino

(August 11, 2020)

Podcast | What regulation of Big Tech might look like

(August 7, 2020)

UW Libraries publishes new online research guides on racial justice, African American experience in Pacific Northwest

(July 29, 2020)

UW books in brief: Chinese funerary biographies, skin lighteners through history, NYC neighborhood gentrification study, Arthurian verse-novel in translation

(April 29, 2020)

There’s a complex history of skin lighteners in Africa and beyond

(March 6, 2020)

Jeff Bezos Commits $10 Billion to Address Climate Change

(February 17, 2020)

Faculty Friday: Patricia Ebrey

(January 30, 2020)

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)

A Museum Mission

(November 5, 2019)

Dr. Michael Aguirre receives the Distinguished Dissertation in the Humanities & Fine Arts Award

(August 7, 2019)

'The Code' looks at big tech's role in remaking America

(July 11, 2019)

UW Books in Brief: US credit markets in history, ‘value sensitive’ design, the lasting effects of reproductive slavery, and more

(July 11, 2019)

Podcast | Biography of Silicon Valley

(July 10, 2019)

Exploring the Archives to Uncover New Pacific Northwest Histories

(April 18, 2019)

Amazon’s Hard Bargain Extends Far Beyond New York

(March 5, 2019)

Do you speak Ladino? Meet the folks trying to save a dying language

(February 26, 2019)

The Freddie Mercury story that goes untold in 'Bohemian Rhapsody'

(February 26, 2019)

Faculty Friday: Adam Warren

(February 7, 2019)

UW to mark centennial of 1919 Seattle General Strike

(February 1, 2019)

Silicon Valley can't escape the business of war

(October 29, 2018)

Race, empire, agency explored in UW history professor’s book ‘Risky Shores: Savagery and Colonialism in the Western Pacific’

(October 10, 2018)

UW historian Margaret O'Mara discusses famous 1968 computer mouse 'demo' – and the start of Silicon Valley – for new podcast by The Conversation

(September 20, 2018)

Working class heroes: A look inside the Labor Archives of Washington

(August 31, 2018)

The History Honors students present their research.

Encouraging the Historians of the Future

(April 6, 2018)

Department of History, Doctoral Candidate Michael Aguirre

Graduate Students Working Towards a More Democratic Society

(March 6, 2018)

Department Gradaute Students Awarded With Prestigious Grants.

(February 16, 2018)

When History Has More To Say

(January 3, 2018)

200 years later, Centralia celebrates its very own George Washington

(August 15, 2017)

The forgotten origins of the modern gay rights movement in WWI

(May 15, 2017)

Jessica Bachman with Indian actor-director Randhir Kapoor in India.

Bollywood & Bolsheviks Visit Suzzallo

(March 14, 2017)

Historians in the Age of Trump

(January 9, 2017)

Think these conventions were bad for unity? You should have been watching in 1924

(July 28, 2016)