Spring 2023
A Little Bit of Land
Review of a lyrical memoir by Jessica Gigot » More ...
Adriana Janovich
Spring 2023
Highest and Hardest: A Mountain Climber’s Lifetime Odyssey to the Top of the World
Review of mountain climbing memoir by Chris Kopczynski » More ...
Spring 2023
From simple acts—great things come
A recent recipient of the Diana Award, Nam H. Nguyen struggled in his own life and now he gives back to others. » More ...
Spring 2023
Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk
A review of the Arctic adventure by Buddy Levy » More ...
Spring 2023
From Refugee to Consul: An American Adventure
Review of a memoir by Helen Szablya » More ...
Spring 2023
Seattle’s Streetcar Era: An Illustrated History, 1884–1941
Review of book by Mike Bergman, published by WSU Press » More ...
Spring 2023
The biggest reunion
In 2023, the WSU Alumni Association will host a record-breaking number of class reunions. » More ...
Spring 2023
Scapes and scallions
Garlic scapes and their younger cousins scallions offer a hint of what’s to come in the garden. » More ...
Winter 2022
Making Space for Women: Stories from Trailblazing Women of NASA’s Johnson Space Center
Edited by Jennifer M. Ross-Nazzal ’04 PhD History
Texas A&M University Press: 2022
One made the coffee every morning. “That was just standard operating procedure,” she explains, noting one boss never called her by her name. It was always “Young Lady.”
Another, in her first job out of high school, babysat for astronauts after work. Still another, a mathematician, was asked to fill in for two weeks for a secretary who was on her honeymoon. When she … » More …
Winter 2022
Pioneering Death: The Violence of Boyhood in Turn-of-the-Century Oregon
Peter Boag
University of Washington Press: 2022
His father slapped him, commanding him to tend to his chores. Instead, the 18-year-old marched into the farmhouse where he lived with his parents and siblings, grabbed his father’s rifle, and shot him in the back of the head before turning the weapon on his mother and a community member who had stopped to chat.
The more historian Peter Boag learned about the killing in west Linn County—and its place in the larger social … » More …