Summer 2019
Olympos to Olympia
The director of the Office of the Chief Information Officer of Washington, Sue Langen, applies the lessons of history to some of the most crucial information technology projects in the state. » More ...
History
Summer 2019
Hardship to Homeland: Pacific Northwest Volga Germans
Histories of migration and struggle come alive in "Hardship to Homeland: Pacific Northwest Volga Germans" by Richard D. Scheuerman and Clifford E. Trafzer. » More ...
Summer 2019
Conserving Hanford’s visual history
Architect Harley Cowan photographs historic sites within the new Manhattan Project National Historical Park as part of a research fellowship in 2017. » More ...
Summer 2019
Gallery: Images of Hanford
Architect, photographer, and alumnus Harley Cowan photographed Hanford Site as part of a fellowship to document the historic location, now part of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park.
Read more about Cowan and the project.
Photos by Harley Cowan
Spring 2019
Inside outside
As children have more access to smartphones and other devices, it's imperative that we expose them to more time in the natural world. The movement known as biophilia and policies like Washington state's No Child Left Inside can increase the opportunities to see and play in nature. » More ...
Spring 2019
Stark Mad Abolitionists
Review of book, Stark Mad Abolitionists, by Robert K. Sutton » 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 ...
Winter 2018
Bison
The day the bison herd swam across the river says it all.
About 80 of the legendary mammals, known for hardiness and stubbornness, decided to cross the half-mile wide Pend Oreille River in 1994—bulls, cows, and even calves—and all survived the crossing, recalls Ray Entz, natural resources director of the Kalispel Tribe of Indians in northeast Washington.
That same rugged strength of the wooly North American bovines—whether you call them bison or buffalo—helped the entire resilient species survive. Although bison are now the national mammal of the United States, they once balanced on the cliff of extinction … » 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 …