Summer 2021
Significantly Washington
Washington’s iconic and classic architecture » More ...
Humanities
Summer 2021
A conversation about Difficult Fruit with Kate Lebo
Kate Lebo’s lyrical and literary Book of Difficult Fruit—part memoir, part cookbook, wholly wonderful—published April 6.
The compilation of essays, one for each letter of the alphabet, uses different fruits as key ingredients for recipes and storytelling. Each piece stands on its own. Collectively, though, the entries present an associative work that is altogether delightful, insightful, witty, surprising, and often deeply personal.
Lebo finished the final draft while working … » More …
Summer 2021
Twelve more significant buildings of Washington state
The Washington Classic Buildings project, led by Washington State University faculty, selected 235 structures across the state for the Society of Architectural Historian’s Archipedia. Below are 12 examples of that list.
Read more about the Washington Classic Buildings.
Lake Quinault Lodge, Quinault
J. Philip Gruen/SAH Archipedia
Nestled in the Olympic National Forest, the rustic, timber-framed, V-shaped Lake Quinault Lodge draws upon Colonial Revival traditions and features natural wood-stained shingles, gabled ends, dormers, and a cupola. Built … » More …
Spring 2021
Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War
An excerpt from the previously untold history of missionary spies in World War II » More ...
Spring 2021
How history offers comfort in a pandemic
History can remind us we're not alone and that we shouldn't forget. » More ...
Spring 2021
Sins of the Bees
Review of Annie Lampman's novel Sins of the Bees » More ...
Spring 2021
Remote: Finding Home in the Bitterroots
DJ Lee
Oregon State University Press: 2020
Places can possess us. Think of the stubbled, ochre hills of the Palouse in the chaffy light of October. No place possesses me more than the landscape defined by two rivers, the Lochsa and the Selway, where the rumpled land of the Bitterroot Mountains lies in the V between them.
Nearly 20 years ago, I told the writer DJ Lee, a Regents Professor of » More …
Spring 2021
Legacies of the Manhattan Project: Reflections on 75 Years of a Nuclear World
Edited by Michael Mays
WSU Press: 2020
Many of the academic essays in this book, the second in the Hanford Histories series, were first presented in 2017 at the Legacies of the Manhattan Project at 75 Years conference in Richland, situated along the southern edge of the Hanford Site. In his introduction, Michael Mays — professor of English at WSU Tri-Cities, director of the Hanford History … » More …
Spring 2021
Briefly noted
Books by WSU faculty and alumni on Black history, Montaigne, road trips, and pandemic survival » More ...
Spring 2021
Working forward
Stefan Bradley, Washington State University alumnus, studies diversity in the history of Black people. He works for that goal as a history professor and writer. » More ...