Summer 2023
Inventing Idaho: The Gem State’s Eccentric Shape
Historical book by Keith C. Petersen » More ...
History
Spring 2023
The Edgewater Hotel: Legend of the Sound
The Edgewater Hotel in Seattle hosted rock and roll royalty from the Beatle to Led Zeppelin and Nirvana. Students from Washington State University Everett pulled together photos and stories to share that incredible musical history.
Read more in “Encoring Seattle’s Edge.”
Produced by the Edgewater Hotel, with material gathered by WSU students
Stories from the Edgewater
History and legends at the Edgewater. Here’s a sample:
The Beatles
In 1964, at the height of Beatlemania, few hotels would host the Fab 4. During their world tour, however, The Edgewater welcomed them. An ambulance was used to … » More …
Spring 2023
Encoring Seattle’s Edge
The Seattle Edgewater Hotel has a storied place in rock and roll history. » 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
Empire of Ice and Stone: A chat with author Buddy Levy
The treacherous Arctic is the setting of a harrowing true story of shipwreck, disaster, and survival in the early twentieth century. Acclaimed adventure writer Buddy Levy, also a creative writing and English professor at Washington State University, talks with Washington State Magazine associate editor Adriana Janovich about his latest book, Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk.
The second of three nonfiction historical narratives by master storyteller Levy about survival and exploration in the Arctic wilderness, this book tracks the voyage of the Karluk to the Bering Sea and its destruction in the ice, leaving crew, Inuit guides, and … » More …
Winter 2022
Unforgotten: Fallen Cougars Project at Washington State University
The mission of the Fallen Cougars Project is to create a digital memorial to the 250 Washington State College World War II war dead. By researching and displaying short biographical portraits, the Fallen Cougars Project aims to reintroduce these largely forgotten WSC students into the 21st century Cougar Nation.
Through historical film footage and interviews, student researchers and project director Ray Sun, associate professor of history at Washington State University Pullman, explore the meaning of the project and what it means to them personally.
Visit the Fallen Cougars Project website.
Also read about the project, veterans, and some … » 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 …
Fall 2022
…and the pursuit of happiness
Five Washington State University scholars on what happiness and well-being means in the twenty-first century: A need for trust » More ...
Summer 2022
Rethinking a virtue at long last
Building for permanence or not in architecture may matter less than how we transition between the two. » More ...