Oregon State University Press has recently published three books by alumni of Washington State University’s Department of History.
Greg Hall’s (’94 M.A., ’99 Ph.D.) Harvest Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World and Agricultural Laborers in the American West, 1905-1930 examines the role of migratory farm workers in the newly industrializing agriculture of the early 20th century and explains the social and cultural history of their efforts to organize into an industrial union.
Robert Hadlow (’87 M.A., ’93 Ph.D.) documents the professional life of the architect whose remarkable bridges grace the Oregon coast in Elegant Arches, Soaring Spans: C.B. McCullough, Oregon’s Master Bridge Builder. McCullough designed and built nearly 600 bridges in Oregon during the 1920s and ’30s, and Hadlow explains the significance of his legacy.
OSU Press has also reissued River of Life, Channel of Death: Fish and Dams on the Lower Snake by Keith Petersen ’73. The four lower Snake River dams stand at the center of a continuing national debate over the fate of salmon in the Pacific Northwest, and Petersen’s book remains the most important scholarly study of the history of those dams. Originally published by Confluence Press, this edition includes a new preface by Petersen.
For more information, go to osu.orst.edu/dept/press