Margaret O’Mara

Margaret O’Mara

Margaret O’Mara is the author of "The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America." She is a professor of history at the University of Washington, where she writes and teaches about the history of U.S. politics, the growth of the high-tech economy, and the connections between the two.
8 min
If you're a great engineer, you can get ahead in Silicon Valley — to a certain extent.
4 min
Silicon Valley started as a Republican stronghold. How did it turn so liberal?
5 min
Historian Maragaret O'Mara explains why a tech utopia was, and still might be, a pipe dream.
10 min
The history of Silicon Valley: The rise of a technological unicorn.