CSPN established by the University of Washington's Department of History.

Colloquium series: "Indians and Whites in the Pacific Northwest"
Summer Institute on State History for Secondary Teachers

Colloquium series: "City and Community in the Pacific Northwest"
Conference: "The Atomic West, 1942-1992: Federal Power and Regional Development"

Colloquium series: "Labor and Minorities in the Pacific Northwest"
Symposium: "Sacred Encounters: Indians, Non-Indians, and Religion in the American and Canadian Northwests"

Conference: "Power and Place in the American West"
Sick Lecture: Quintard Taylor, "From 'Freedom Now' to 'Black Power': Blacks, Asians, and Whites in Seattle's Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1970"

CSPN moves into its new home in Smith Hall.
Symposium: "World War II: What it Took to End the War"

Conference: "On Brotherly Terms: Canadian-American Relations West of the Rockies"
State History Curriculum Project initiated.

Lecture series: "The Frontier in American Culture"
Sick Lecture: Shelby Scates, "The Whole Load of Hay Falls on Maggie"

Symposium: "All Powers Necessary and Convenient" on the Canwell Committee

CSPN office renovations completed.
Symposium: "Mount Rainier National Park Centennial"

Conference: "The Nikkei Experience in the Pacific Northwest"
Sick Lecture: Robert Kaufman, "A Bridge Too Far: Senator Jackson's Quest for the Presidency"

CSPN receives the Governor's Award for Excellence in Teaching for its curriculum packets.
Summer course and lecture series: "A Sense of Where We Are"

Co-sponsored annual Pacific Northwest History Conference, "History on the Edge and at the Center"

Author talk: Jim Phillips and Rosemary Gartner, Murdering Holiness: The Trials of Franz Creffield and George Mitchell

Symposium: "Imagining the Trans-Pacific West"

Conference: "Pacific Northwest Indian Treaties in National and International Historical Perspective"
Sick Lecture: Albert Furtwangler, "Bringing Indians to the Book"

Sick Lecture: Katrine Barber, "Death of Falls"

Summer course and lecture series: "A Sense of Where We Are"

Co-sponsored Washington State History Day.
Lecture series: "U.S. Empire in Comparative and Historical Perspective"

Sick Lecture: Lorraine McConaghy, "The U.S. Navy in the Antebellum West"
Symposium: "Race and Empire at the Fair: A Centennial Symposium on the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition"

Lecture series: "The Crossroads of Empire"
Sick Lecture: Andrew H. Fisher, "Shadow Tribe: The Making of Columbia River Indian Identity"
Sick Lecture: Patricia Susan Hart, " A Home for Every Child: The Washington Children's Home Society in the Progressive Era"

Conference: "Race, Radicalism, and Repression on the Pacific Coast and Beyond" (PDF)