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Boston researchers have compiled what may be the country’s first city-commissioned database of enslaved people

Jared Ross Hardesty, an associate history professor at Western Washington University who’s written about slavery in Boston, said the records can help decipher details of enslaved people’s everyday lives, and tell of the prevalence of…

2023-10-13
WWU announces new path to becoming a secondary education teacher 2023-10-11
WWU’s Ray Wolpow Institute to host international symposium on Holocaust literature 2023-09-25
Poet Jane Wong to Read from New Memoir About Growing Up in Atlantic City

Jane Wong, whose debut memoir “Meet Met Tonight in Atlantic City” has received rave reviews, will be the first speaker for this academic year at Stockton University’s Stephen Dunn Reading Series.

The 2023 book is “an incandescent, exquisitely written memoir about family, food, girlhood,…

2023-09-21
Peter Faneuil: Boston benefactor and slave trader

“Boston is built on the business of slavery, whether that’s slave trading or trading with the slave economies in the Caribbean,” added Jared Ross Hardesty, a history professor at Western Washington University.

2023-09-13
Journey to Justice: A Law Clerk’s 10-Week Adventure at the Alaska Native Justice Center

Zoë’s educational journey was a diverse one, commencing with an English degree from Western Washington University and culminating in a Master’s of Fine Arts in creative writing from University of Alaska Fairbanks. Initially, she considered pursuing a career in academia as an…

2023-08-16
Meet 2023's Outstanding Graduate Students 2023-07-24
Whatcom primary ballots burst with candidates

“It was the norm around here to have incumbents run unopposed,” said Todd Donovan, a professor of political science at Western Washington University and a sitting county council member. Donovan is not up for election this year.

“Even with open seats, a lot of the time…

2023-07-17
2023 Outstanding Graduates: CHSS Humanities 2023-06-30
2023 Outstanding Graduates: CHSS Social and Behavioral Sciences 2023-06-30
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