History Department
Rayson Alex, Fulbright Scholar in residence at Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies during the fall quarter and the first part of winter quarter, says that the common denominator of his experience at Western has been “community.”
Alex, whose teaches courses in the…
Last month a professor at Weber State University in Utah asked a new artificial-intelligence chatbot to write a tweet in his voice.
Within a few minutes the application, called ChatGPT, had spit out a dozen messages that captured Alex Lawrence’s tone and personality. His first reaction…
WWU will host poet Paul Hlava Ceballos to campus for a public performance at 3 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 2 at 3 p.m., in Carver 104. This event is free and open to the entire campus community.
Ceballos' award-winning new book, banana [], out of the University of Pittsburgh Press, is steeped…
Remind Students to Think.
Johann N. Neem, professor of history, Western Washington University
With ChatGPT, a student can turn in a passable assignment without reading a book, writing a word or having a thought. But …
About a quarter of all white Bostonians who had estate inventory taken between 1700 and 1775 owned enslaved people, according to Western Washington University history professor Jared Ross Hardesty, who is quoted in the resolution. At the peak of slavery in…
Nearly a decade ago, Boston’s Old North Church opened a Colonial-themed chocolate shop named for Captain Newark Jackson, a prominent early member of the historic church and a pillar of Boston’s lucrative chocolate trade with the British in the 1700s.
For years, Colonial…
It was the evening before the Fourth of July in the last year of his tumultuous presidency, and I sat in front of my television transfixed and horrified as Donald Trump delivered a speech at Mount Rushmore, ostensibly a celebration of American independence but in fact a call for resistance.…
National conservative media is again targeting Bellingham Public Schools over its efforts to foster equity, diversity and inclusion in its teaching — this time over a proposed drag show at Whatcom Middle School.
But so far, school staff and officials aren’t seeing the same kind of…
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine enters its second week, Bellingham-area residents are standing in solidarity with people of Slavic descent by demonstrating for peace, and scholars are helping make sense of the war.
To help Whatcom County residents understand the roots of the conflict…
Western will host the third annual Latin American Studies Forum Thursday, March 3, from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
The event will kick off with a virtual Latinx Linguistic Special Session from 10-11:30 a.m., titled "Landscaping the Linguistic of University Campuses as a Culturally Sustaining…