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Boston sheds more light on its relationship to slavery

The image of Northern cities like Boston as centers of abolitionist activity has overshadowed the history of their role in slavery,鈥 said Jared Hardesty, an associate history professor at Western Washington University 补苍诲鈥

Report: Test-Optional Trends in Pandemic Year for College Admissions

Dr. Johann Neem, a history professor at Western Washington University and author of What鈥檚 the Point of College? Seeking Purpose in an Age of Reform, stressed the importance of understanding the history of standardized testing versus its controversial reality today.鈥

Public Education After the Pandemic: A Q&A with Professor of History Johann Neem鈥
草榴社区 History student Hannah Swartos wins coveted Harry Fritz prize
The man who taught millions of Americans to read before being forgotten

Story on William Holmes McGuffey quotes Johann Neem, chair of Western's History Department.

Smallpox and urban nature in 1860s San Francisco

Features the research of Associate Professor of Jennifer Seltz via the Organization of American Historians.

草榴社区聽to host Susan Burch May 18 for 'Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions'
A famous act of resistance counsels caution as we address right-wing violence

Political leaders and FBI officials are frantically rushing to address the renewed threat of White Supremacist violence in the wake of the January 6 Capitol insurrection. But as they do so it is worth recalling the lessons of one of the most consequential acts of nonviolent resistance in鈥

A famous act of resistance counsels caution as we address right-wing violence

Political leaders and FBI officials are frantically rushing to address the renewed threat of White Supremacist violence in the wake of the January 6 Capitol insurrection. But as they do so it is worth recalling the lessons of one of the most consequential acts of nonviolent resistance in鈥

Remember: The FBI Declared War on and Tried to Destroy Martin Luther King

During the debate after Garrow鈥檚 essay, the most interesting criticism by far came in  in an article written by FBI historian (and 草榴社区 Visiting Assistant Professor of鈥

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