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Walking Washington's History

Ten Cities

By Judy Bentley

Walking Washington’s History: Ten Cities, a follow-up to Judy Bentley’s bestselling Hiking Washington’s History, showcases the state’s engaging urban history through guided walks in ten major cities. Using narrated walks, maps, and historic photographs, Bentley...

Hiking Washington's History

By Judy Bentley and Craig Romano

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...

Walking the High Desert

Encounters with Rural America along the Oregon Desert Trail

By Ellen Waterston

Former high desert rancher Ellen Waterston writes of a wild, essentially roadless, starkly beautiful part of the American West. Following the recently created 750-mile Oregon Desert Trail, she embarks on a creative and inquisitive exploration,...

Puget's Sound

A Narrative of Early Tacoma and the Southern Sound

By Murray Morgan. Introduction by Michael Sean Sullivan

With the same ability to make personalities and events come alive that characterizes his classic Skid Road, Murray Morgan here tells the colorful story of Tacoma, “the City of Destiny,” and southern Puget Sound, where...

A Will to Serve

Stories of Patience, Persistence, and Friends Made Along the Way

By Jim Ellis and Jennifer Ott. Foreword by Sally Jewell. Afterword by Gary Locke

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...

Feminista Frequencies

Community Building through Radio in the Yakima Valley

By Monica De La Torre

How Chicana and Chicano community radio strengthened a movement and transformed the airwaves

Beginning in the 1970s Chicana and Chicano organizers turned to community radio broadcasting to educate, entertain, and uplift Mexican American listeners across the...

Confederacy of Ambition

William Winlock Miller and the Making of Washington Territory

By William L. Lang

The promise of opportunity drew twenty-seven-year-old Illinois schoolteacher William Winlock Miller west to the future Washington Territory in 1850. Like so many other Oregon Trail emigrants Miller arrived cash-poor and ambitious, but unlike most he...

Seeing Seattle

By Roger Sale. Photographs by Mary Randlett and Peter Steinbrueck

From the time that Roger Sale’s interpretive history Seattle Past to Present was published in 1976 he has often served as an unofficial guide for friends and visitors to Seattle, and has also been asked...

Seattle Walks

Discovering History and Nature in the City

By David B. Williams

An updated and expanded new edition of the definitive walking guide to Seattle

One of America's most walkable cities, Seattle rewards urban trekkers with expansive scenery and architectural and historical riches. The second edition of this...

Revolution to Evolution

The Story of the Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity at the University of Washington

By Emile Pitre

Chronicles the creation of an institution dedicated to greater diversity, inclusivity, and equity on campus

Revolution to Evolution maps the journey of the University of Washington’s Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity (OMA&D), from its inception as a...

The Everyday Life of the State

A State-in-Society Approach

By Adam White, Joel S. Migdal

Today there are more states controlling more people than at any other point in history. We live in a world shaped by the authority of the state. Yet the complexion of state authority is patchy...

Robert B. Heilman

His Life in Letters

By Edward Alexander, Richard Dunn, Paul Jaussen

Robert Bechtold Heilman was a great literary figure of the twentieth century. This collection of his correspondence includes over 600 exchanges with more than 100 correspondents, among them Saul Bellow, Kenneth Burke, Malcolm Cowley, Richard...

Washington State

By Charles Pierce LeWarne

This revised, updated, and improved edition of the leading high school textbook on Washington State history brings the reader from the earliest known accounts of the region up to the present. Incorporating the newest data...