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Rising Tides and Tailwinds
The Story of the Port of Seattle
ISBN: 9781933245713
more detailsAlaska Native Resilience
Voices from World War II
Alaska Native elders remember wartime invasion, relocation, and land reclamation
The US government justified its World War II occupation of Alaska as a defense against Japan’s invasion of the Aleutian Islands, but it equally served to...
ISBN: 9780295752525
more detailsOregon's Others
Gender, Civil Liberties, and the Surveillance State in the Early Twentieth Century
In the era of the First World War and its aftermath, the quest to identify, restrict, and punish internal enemy “others,” combined with eugenic thinking, severely curtailed civil liberties for many people in Oregon and...
ISBN: 9780295752587
more detailsA Will to Serve
Stories of Patience, Persistence, and Friends Made Along the Way
The autobiography of an indefatigable visionary and citizen activist
Jim Ellis was one of the most influential and impactful civic leaders of Seattle's and Washington's recent history. Though he never sought elected office, his vision and...
ISBN: 9781933245706
more detailsTreaty Justice
The Northwest Tribes, the Boldt Decision, and the Recognition of Fishing Rights
In 1974, Judge George Boldt issued a ruling that affirmed the fishing rights and tribal sovereignty of Native nations in Washington State. The Boldt Decision transformed Indigenous law and resource management across the United States...
ISBN: 9780295752723
more detailsHeartbreak City
Seattle Sports and the Unmet Promise of Urban Progress
How the city's marginalized communities have historically used sports as a tool for resilience and resistance
To cities, sports have never been just entertainment. Progressive urbanites across the United States have used athletics to address persistent...
ISBN: 9780295751993
more detailsBiking Uphill in the Rain
The Story of Seattle from behind the Handlebars
The rise of an improbable bike culture in the Emerald City
Seattle was recently named the best bike city in the United States by Bicycling magazine. How did this notoriously hilly and rainy city become so...
ISBN: 9780295751580
more detailsStomp and Shout
R&B and the Origins of Northwest Rock and Roll
Long before the world discovered grunge, the Pacific Northwest was already home to a singular music culture. In the late 1950s, locals had codified a distinct offshoot of rockin' R&B, and a surprising number...
ISBN: 9780295751252
more detailsSkid Road
On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in Seattle
A finalist for the Washington State Book Award
Affluent Seattle has one of the highest numbers of unhoused people in the United States. In 2021 an estimated 40,800 people experienced homelessness in Seattle and King County...
ISBN: 9780295751542
more detailsSeattle from the Margins
Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City
The creation of Seattle and the displacement of those who built it
From the origins of the city in the mid-nineteenth century to the beginning of World War II, Seattle's urban workforce consisted overwhelmingly of migrant...
ISBN: 9780295751863
more detailsHomewaters
A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound
Not far from Seattle skyscrapers live 150-year-old clams, more than 250 species of fish, and underwater kelp forests as complex as any terrestrial ecosystem. For millennia, vibrant Coast Salish communities have lived beside these waters...
ISBN: 9780295751009
more detailsFear No Man
Don James, the '91 Huskies, and the Seven-Year Quest for a National Football Championship
In 1984 the University of Washington Huskies won every game but one, ranking second in national polls. For most coaches, such a season would be a career pinnacle. But for Don James second place motivated...
ISBN: 9780295751214
more detailsThe Port of Missing Men
Billy Gohl, Labor, and Brutal Times in the Pacific Northwest
In the early twentieth century so many dead bodies surfaced in the rivers around Aberdeen, Washington, that they were nicknamed the “floater fleet." When Billy Gohl (1873–1927), a powerful union official, was arrested for murder,...
ISBN: 9780295751207
more detailsWriting Labor’s Emancipation
The Anarchist Life and Times of Jay Fox
Jay Fox (1870–1961) was a journalist, intellectual, and labor militant whose influence rippled across the country. In Writing Labor's Emancipation, historian Greg Hall traces Fox's unorthodox life to highlight the shifting dynamics in US labor...
ISBN: 9780295750583
more detailsPioneering Death
The Violence of Boyhood in Turn-of-the-Century Oregon
On an autumn day in 1895, eighteen-year-old Loyd Montgomery shot his parents and a neighbor in a gruesome act that reverberated beyond the small confines of Montgomery's Oregon farming community. The dispassionate slaying and Montgomery's...
ISBN: 9780295750637
more detailsThe River That Made Seattle
A Human and Natural History of the Duwamish
Restores the river to its central place in the city’s history
With bountiful salmon and fertile plains, the Duwamish River has drawn people to its shores over the centuries for trading, transport, and sustenance. Chief Se’alth...
ISBN: 9780295750989
more detailsUncle Rico's Encore
Mostly True Stories of Filipino Seattle
Winner of the Silver Prize 2022 PubWest Book Design Award (Adult Trade – Non-Illustrated)
A love note to the city and its once vibrant Pinoy community
From the 1950s through the 1970s, blue-collar Filipino Americans, or Pinoys,...
ISBN: 9780295749778
more detailsFeminista Frequencies
Community Building through Radio in the Yakima Valley
Beginning in the 1970s Chicana and Chicano organizers turned to community radio broadcasting to educate, entertain, and uplift Mexican American listeners across the United States. In rural areas, radio emerged as the most effective medium...
ISBN: 9780295749662
more detailsKenjiro Nomura, American Modernist
An Issei Artist’s Journey
Born in Japan, acclaimed Seattle artist Kenjiro Nomura (1896–1956) came to the United States as a child of ten, received artistic recognition by age twenty, and in the 1930s became the best-known artist of Japanese...
ISBN: 9780998911236
more detailsHiking Washington's History
A trail guide for history buffs—and a history book for hikers
For thousands of years people have traveled across Washington’s spectacular terrain, establishing footpaths and roads to reach hunting grounds and coal mines high in the...
ISBN: 9780295748528
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