Spring 2011
Outside In—Architecture of the Pacific Northwest
Architecture in the Pacific Northwest has always had to contend with the environment. The results are enchanting. » More ...
WSM Spring 2011
Spring 2011
Mexican Women and the Other Side of Immigration: Engendering Transnational Ties
Luz Maria Gordillo
University of Texas Press, 2010
There are communities of people who live their lives in two places at once. Residents of Detroit, Michigan, and the small town of San Ignacio, Mexico, for example. In her book, historian Luz Maria Gordillo sets out to explain the history of this phenomenon, which dates back to the 1940s when the Bracero Program started bringing temporary Mexican laborers into the Midwest.
She hones that focus to … » More …
Spring 2011
Black Leapt In
Chris Forhan ’82
Barrow Street Books, 2009
In Chris Forhan’s latest collection of poems, Black Leapt In, the writer draws upon his childhood in Seattle, using striking natural images and startling honesty and insight. He balances straightforward description of the environment he grew up in with an older, wiser voice that recollects, sometimes sarcastically, that time in his life. Forhan dedicated Black Leapt In to his father, who died in 1973, and many of the … » More …
Spring 2011
A Marvelous Hundred Square Miles: Black Hills Tourism, 1880–1941
Suzanne Barta Julin ’01 PhD
South Dakota State Historical Society Press, 2010
The faces of four presidents gaze down on the Black Hills of South Dakota, a fitting vigil for a tourist destination carved, like Mount Rushmore itself, by public policy, political machinations, and private investments.
Historian Suzanne Barta Julin has documented the rise of the Black Hills tourism industry, which grew from the efforts of state and federal politicians at the shift to automobile-driven … » More …
Spring 2011
Friends of the Old Mill
Cody Beebe and the Crooks
Friends of the Old Mill, 2010
This new roots-rock album has compelling lyrics, musical variety, and an overall upbeat feel. Cody Beebe and the Crooks (most of whom are WSU alumni) offer up twelve tracks with titles such as “Nine to Chain,” “Change of Pace,” and “Hurricane,” a pleasing assortment of rock/jazz/funk songs that contrast nicely in their use of instruments and varying tempos. Guitar is prevalent throughout, but … » More …