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Spring 2021

What to read: Offerings from WSU Press

Here’s a round-up of reading recommendations featuring 11 titles curated by the staff at WSU Press.

Be Brave, Tah-hy!: The Journey of Chief Joseph’s Daughter by Jack R. Williams with illustrations by Jo Proferes (2012). Exquisitely illustrated and rich with depictions of Nimiipuu Dreamer culture, Tah-hy’s young voice narrates this novel about the harrowing 1877 flight of the Nez Perce.

Edge of Tomorrow: An Arctic Year by Sam Wright (1998). Living in a hand-built, 12-foot-by-12-foot cabin in the Brooks Range of Alaska 100 miles inside the Arctic Circle, Wright records his experiences and thoughts through seasonal changes, as he and his wife spend … » More …

Fall 2019

Leading the Crimson and Gray

A review of an anthology of biographies of WSU's first ten presidents, published by WSU Press. » More ...

Fall 2019

Nowhere to Remember: Hanford, White Bluffs, and Richland to 1943

Review of "Nowhere to Remember: Hanford, White Bluffs, and Richland to 1943," by Robert Bauman and Robert Franklin and published by WSU Press in 2018. » More ...

Fall 2019

Interwoven Lives: Indigenous Mothers of Salish Coast Communities

Review of "Interwoven Lives: Indigenous Mothers of Salish Coast Communities," by Candace Wellman and published by WSU Press in 2018. » More ...

Fall 2019

Low Dose Radiation: The History of the U.S. Department of Energy Research Programs

Review of "Low Dose Radiation: The History of the U.S. Department of Energy Research Programs," by Antone L. Brooks and published by WSU Press in 2018. » More ...

Fall 2019

Citizen Jean: Riots, Rogues, Rumors, and Other Inside Seattle Stories

Review of "Citizen Jean: Riots, Rogues, Rumors, and Other Inside Seattle Stories," by Jean Godden and published by WSU Press in 2019. » More ...

Spring 2019

Monumental Seattle: The Stories behind the City’s Statues, Memorials, and Markers

Review of book, Monumental Seattle: The Stories behind the City’s Statues, Memorials, and Markers, by Robert Spalding and published by WSU Press » More ...

Spring 2019

Briefly noted

Brief reviews of books by WSU alumni, faculty, and the WSU Press, including "Governing the Evergreen State: Political Life in Washington," "Sponge Cake: A Mostly Made Up Story About A Completely Insane Town," "What’s in the Fridge?" and "52 Seattle Adventures With Kids: A four-season guide" » More ...

Winter 2018

Spirit in the Rock: The Fierce Battle for Modoc Homelands

Jim Compton

WSU Press: 2017

Descending a great bluff towering above an endless sea of black in early 1873, the militiamen clench their rifles tighter as they wade into a thick gray fog among southern Oregon lava beds. A deafening crack and the flash of gunpowder pierces the dense mist. War paint-clad Modoc snipers poke their muzzles out between cracks in the blackened rock and fire unseen upon their adversaries. The bewildered U.S. troops search frantically through the … » More …

Winter 2018

Complexity in a Ditch: Bringing Water to the Idaho Desert

Hugh T. Lovin ’56 MA History

WSU Press: 2017

Growing up on a farm near Inkom, Idaho, the young Hugh Lovin would engineer ways to divert water to the crops he produced for his livestock. Later in life, after years of writing histories of labor, Lovin turned his attention again to irrigation. In a number of articles, collected for the first time in this volume, he traced the history of the “dreamers, schemers, and doers” who brought water … » More …