Western History Association
Though we couldn’t connect with you in-person at the Western History Association conference this year, we would still like to highlight our new books and share our conference discount.
If you’re registered for the virtual conference, you can access our booth in the exhibit hall here.
We are pleased to offer WHA members a 40% discount with free shipping on all orders placed through December 31. Enter promo code WASH20 at checkout through our website or by calling 1-800-537-5487.
Our acquisitions editors are still eager to connect with current and prospective authors about new projects and book proposals. They have been working to transition their usual in-person conference appointments to virtual meetings by phone or Zoom. If you have a project you’d like to discuss, please get in touch with one of our editors:
Larin McLaughlin, Editor in Chief
Critical ethnic studies; American studies; Asian American studies; women’s, gender, and sexuality studies; Native and Indigenous studies; visual culture
Andrew Berzanskis, Senior Acquisitions Editor
Social justice, environmental history, general interest books about science, the environment, and the Pacific Northwest
Mike Baccam, Acquisitions Editor
Asian American studies, western US history, critical ethnic studies
We’ve curated a selection of our new and noteworthy books below, and you can find additional titles here.
New in Western History

Emerald Street
A History of Hip Hop in Seattle
$29.95
Paperback
320 Pages

The Great Quake Debate
The Crusader, the Skeptic, and the Rise of Modern Seismology
$29.95
Hardcover
328 Pages

The Port of Missing Men
Billy Gohl, Labor, and Brutal Times in the Pacific Northwest
$29.95
Hardcover
296 Pages

The Unsung Great
Stories of Extraordinary Japanese Americans
$29.95
Paperback
312 Pages

The River That Made Seattle
A Human and Natural History of the Duwamish
$29.95
Hardcover
240 Pages

Outriders
Rodeo at the Fringes of the American West
$27.95
Paperback
264 Pages

Nisei Radicals
The Feminist Poetics and Transformative Ministry of Mitsuye Yamada and Michael Yasutake
$29.95
Paperback
272 Pages

Becoming Nisei
Japanese American Urban Lives in Prewar Tacoma
$29.95
Paperback
312 Pages

Fire
A Brief History
$24.95
Paperback
240 Pages

Alaska
An American Colony
$34.95
Paperback
440 Pages

Oregon
This Storied Land
$24.95
Paperback
256 Pages

Seismic City
An Environmental History of San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake
$24.95
Paperback
376 Pages

Return to the Land of the Head Hunters
Edward S. Curtis, the Kwakwaka'wakw, and the Making of Modern Cinema
$35.00
Paperback
392 Pages

Proud Raven, Panting Wolf
Carving Alaska's New Deal Totem Parks
$29.95
Paperback
288 Pages

Defending Giants
The Redwood Wars and the Transformation of American Environmental Politics
$24.95
Paperback
384 Pages

Reclaiming the Reservation
Histories of Indian Sovereignty Suppressed and Renewed
$35.00
Paperback
424 Pages

Becoming Mary Sully
Toward an American Indian Abstract
$34.95
Paperback
336 Pages

We Are Dancing for You
Native Feminisms and the Revitalization of Women’s Coming-of-Age Ceremonies
$30.00
Paperback
208 Pages