History at WOU
Learning to think, research, and write about history is useful in a number of careers. Unlike some fields of study, history does not limit students to one job or technology. Foreign service officers, business executives, journalists, lawyers, librarians, archivists, and museum curators have majored in history as undergraduates. History also makes an exciting teaching career. In our society of dramatic change, most people change careers numerous times during their lifetime. Historical imagination and research skills provide students with a variety of options as jobs and technology change
Meet History Major Jen Hight
WOU History Students Win Awards
Learn more about this year's award winners.
Learn more about History Prizes, Grants, and Scholarships.
History students are working with our community partner, the Oregon Women’s History Consortium, to provide research and content for the Oregon 2020 project commemorating the centenary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 2020.
Interviews with leaders, activists, and scholars about the importance of the vote today, barriers to women’s voting, and social justice activism
Winter 2018: History/Honors Colloquium
Documents Projects: Women Across Oregon in 1920
August 1920 and Women Across Oregon
Winter 2019: Introduction to Public History
January 14, 1920: Oregon Ratifies the Nineteenth Amendment
January 1920 Around Oregon
Spring 2019: Women in Oregon History
Oregon Women Protest for Suffrage: National Woman’s Party Members in Oregon and Washington, D.C., 1917-1919
Oregon Women in the 1920 Census Born in Mexico
Donate to the Western Oregon University History Department:
Click here, and select “Support WOU” and for designation select “other” and then indicate History Department.
