History Department

With Egypt's future unsettled after the ouster of President Mubarak, The Herald asked professor Leonard Helfgott to share his thoughts about the pivotal country.
Helfgott teaches Middle Eastern, Jewish and American cultural history at Western Washington University, where he has been a…

Media's role in democracy and the nature of people and politics were the topics of the League of Women Voters of Whatcom County's meeting Saturday, Jan. 15.
The discussion drew more than 50 people to the Bellingham Public Library's lecture room to hear about the importance…

The spread of political information and democracy will be the topic of discussion at the League of Women Voters of Bellingham/Whatcom County's event Saturday, Jan. 15.
The talk, called "Why Deliberation Matters: Politics past and present in our democracy," will run from 9:30…

Dr. Mike Kugler, professor of history at Northwestern College, contributed a chapter to Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian’s Vocation, published in November by the University of Notre Dame Press.

NOW that the midterm elections are over, we can better grapple with the true costs of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United vs. the Federal Election Commission and the immediate outpouring of cash that shaped the elections' outcome.

The…