History

Matthew Sutton, professor of history at Washington State University, was the featured author of the Wall Street Journal’s “Saturday Essay” on April 17, 2026.

The story of the United States is intertwined with the religion despite being a nation with a secular Constitution.

A team of Washington State University students is preparing to showcase a handcrafted ancient Greek sword at the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) Bladesmithing Competition, held during the society’s annual meeting next month.

The American Revolution is often remembered as a triumph of liberty, a clean break from empire that gave rise to a new republic built on universal ideals.

Portland Monthly: An exhibit curated by Peter Boag opened at the Oregon Historical Society.

To a growing contingent of right-wing evangelical Christians, Donald Trump isn’t just an aspiring two-term president. He’s an actual prophet. There’s a new entry in the warm-up material at Trump rallies, sandwiched between the classic-rock anthems and the demagogic diatribes of various local political leaders. It’s a two-minute video that Trump posted to his Truth […]

From the early 1940s, legal segregation and the attitudes of the Tri-Cities community made Black people feel unwelcome, according to Robert Bauman, a history professor at WSU Tri-Cities. “Kennewick was a sundown town…,” Bauman said. “There were some African Americans who worked there, not a lot. And Blacks could come to Kennewick to shop whatever […]

A conversation with historian Peter Boag about his book “Pioneering Death: The Violence of Boyhood in Turn-of-the-Century Oregon” on Writing Westward, a podcast hosted by Brenden Rensink, director of the Redd Center at Brigham Young University. Listen to the full show: Writing Westward

For most observers, the war in Gaza is a horrifying escalation of tensions in the Middle East, pitting a heavily armed Israeli state in a self-styled “existential” crusade against a stateless civilian population, bringing a brutal toll of casualties and the prospect of permanent displacement. Yet for many in the American evangelical world, the news […]

Associate professor of history Lawrence B.A. Hatter is among 99 people from across the globe recently elected a Fellow of the prestigious Royal Historical Society (RHS). The 153-year-old organization based in the U.K. recognized Hatter for his “contribution to the discipline of history.”