Fall 2023
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Politicians
Winter 2010
Gallery: Washington’s First Women
The Washington Secretary of State’s office and the Washington State Heritage Center presented an exhibit on Washington state’s first women in state government. Here are the posters from that “Moving Forward, Looking Back” exhibit in the state capitol building during Fall 2010.
Fall 2020
Exchanging solutions
Earning a college degree, securing a better life while under the specter of deportation—our politicians seek solutions. » More ...
Fall 2019
I can do it!
Washington State University alumnus Andaya Sugayan's passion for getting women into politics led to voter registration drives, and inspires her own future plans. » 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 ...
Fall 2016
Staying a jump ahead
Long before he was elected to the New Zealand Parliament, served as immigration minister, and held other national cabinet positions, Tuariki “John” Delamere ’74 was a long jumper with an attention-grabbing technique.
Delamere, a fixture on Washington State’s track team in the early 1970s, didn’t invent The Flip. But he so excelled at the leaping mid-air forward somersault it sometimes seemed as if he had.
His style was so gravity-defyingly smooth that when Sports Illustrated wanted to learn more about The Flip, and the debate that would eventually lead to the technique’s prohibition, the magazine sent a crew to the 1974 national qualifiers to … » More …
Summer 2015
Global War and Christian Nationalism
An excerpt from American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism
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Spring 2014
Civility and Democracy in America: A Reasonable Understanding
Cornell W. Clayton and Richard Elgar
WSU Press, 2012
This collection of essays from WSU professors and other scholars takes a hard look at the historical and contemporary state of civility in the country, probing the complexities and the causes of the current “crisis.”
The articles cover not just history, but religion, architecture, ethics, philosophy, and media studies, as the writers discuss the context of incivility and heated rhetoric surrounding major issues of social movements, civil rights, immigration, and other matters long affecting American democracy.
The collection of essays emerged from a 2011 conference on civility … » More …
Summer 2013
Dan ’44 and Val ’46 Ogden—Staying activist in older age
Last fall in Vancouver, with the voter registration deadline looming, Dan Ogden ’44 wasn’t about to be held up by Parkinson’s disease or two artificial hips.
He pushed his walker around his new apartment complex and through a recently completed cul-de-sac to make sure his neighbors could take part in the November general election. At his side was Val Ogden ’46, his partner in Democratic Party politics and wife of 66 years. She was spry enough to negotiate steps and stairways to ring doorbells beyond her husband’s reach.
The Ogdens are in their seventh decade of political and social activism—with roots going back to their … » More …
Summer 2012
Dan Newhouse ’77—Farm to director’s office
In 2009, Dan Newhouse ’77 was walking through the wings of the state House of Representatives when the governor’s chief of staff approached him with a surprising offer.
Newhouse was a four-term Republican representative from Sunnyside and floor leader for his caucus, so he didn’t expect to be asked to be director of the Washington State Department of Agriculture by a Democratic governor. “At the time, everyone knew there was a vacancy, but being from a different political party I didn’t think I would be considered for that position,” he says.
Soon after, Newhouse visited with Gov. Chris Gregoire about agriculture once. Then he … » More …