2025 is the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, and Professor Noriko Kawamura has been working with three international documentary film projects. 1) History Channel in the US is producing a new series on World War II (20 episodes) with Tom Hanks as narrator, and Kawamura has been working with three production teams […]
Shiloh Green Soto has been awarded the Arts & Humanities Process Grant by the WSU Office of Research to support initial work on her book project which explores the role of the real estate lobby in shaping climate risk. With this funding, she will hire a graduate student research assistant to collect and analyze official […]
The new book by Nathan Sowry (MA in History,WSU 2011), Turning the Power: Indian Boarding Schools, Native American Anthropologists, and the Race to Preserve Indigenous Cultures is coming out this April 2025. He received his MLIS in Archives and Records Administration from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2013, and his PhD in History from American […]
Jesse Spohnholz has been elected by the membership of the Central European History Society to serve on its Executive Board from 2025 to 2028.
On Monday, 2/3, Robert Franklin was the moderator at a panel discussion for Black History Month at Whitman University titled “Bridging the Past: A Conversation on History, Healing & Hope.” The panelists, Mariah Rocker from Oregon Black Pioneers and Taylor Stewart, founder of the Oregon Remembrance Project, discussed the importance of Oregon Black history, their […]
Lawrence Hatter published a new article this week contextualizing Trump’s Canadian delusions in Time magazine. https://time.com/7207723/trump-canada/. He continues to write a regular column connecting history to current events for the Inlander: https://www.inlander.com/author/lawrence-b-a-hatter.
The WSU Insider (2/3/25) showcased the work by Robert Franklin and Bob Bauman in Tri-Cities, on how architecture shaped and reflected the systemic racism in Tri-Cities during and after World War
Heather McNamee and Ashley Boyd will present “The Power of Story: Language as a Window into Social Justice” on February 4, 2025 at 6pm at the Paradise Creek Brewery.