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About Margaret O’Mara, PhD

Dr. O’Mara is Professor and the Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Chair of American History at the University of Washington.

A leading historian of Silicon Valley, she is the author of two acclaimed books about the modern American technology industry: The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America (2019) and Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search For The Next Silicon Valley (2005). She is also a historian of the American presidency and author of Pivotal Tuesdays: Four Elections that Shaped the Twentieth Century (2015). She is a coauthor, with David Kennedy and Lizabeth Cohen, of the widely used college textbook on United States history, The American Pageant.

O’Mara’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, WIRED, MIT Technology Review, Foreign Affairs, and other outlets. She is an active public speaker, appears regularly in national and international broadcast media, and has contributed her expertise to development of Mattel's American Girl dolls.

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