Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest

Flyer for "This Is Native Land Contemporary teachings from Tribal traditions, history, and culture" exhibition.

New permanent exhibition opening at the Washington State Historical Society Museum: This Is Native Land Contemporary
teachings from Tribal traditions, history, and culture. Check out www.washingtonhistory.org/exhibit/this... for more info.
#PNWHistory #Tacoma #WAHistory

Author Coll Thrush stands at a podium in front of a large seated crowd and next to a projection of the Title Page information for his book Wrecked.

Thank you so much to everyone that came out last week to hear @collthrush.bsky.social talk on his newest @uwapress.uw.edu title Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific. And special thanks to UW History and UW Libraries for their support.

so happy to have this conversation with ever brilliant chrystel oloukoï for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

Don't miss this event sponsored by us, the UW Department of History, @uwapress.uw.edu and the University of Washington Libraries.

Tomorrow!
Thursday Oct 2nd 2025 at 3:30pm
Petersen Room of Allen Library North

A text box on top of a website home page for the Seattle National Archives location. Text box explains that due to the government shutdown National Archives are closed except for a few exceptions.

Hopefully no one had any important research they were hoping to do soon!

The 2025 Pacific Northwest Historians Guild History Conference is coming up next month!

pnwhistorians.org/guild/index....

#HistoryConference #PNWHistory

Left red text "Resist, Reclaim, Restore: Preserving an Inclusive Heritage". Right said black and white photo of people in a demonstration holding banners.

Don't miss the Marion Dean Ross/Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians' third annual "mini" conference in Tacoma, WA on October 10-12, 2025.

sahmdr.org/conference

#HistoricalSociety #HistoricalConference #PNW

Part of the Emil and Kathleen Sick Series in Western History and Biography at the University of Washington, this event is sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, the Department of History, University of Washington Press, and the University of Washington Libraries.

Cover of "Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific" by Coll Thrush

More than 2,000 ships have gone down along the coasts of BC, Washington, and Oregon, earning the area the nickname “Graveyard of the Pacific.” The stories found within that stretch of water offer opportunity to examine colonialism, Indigenous survivance, and shaping of the region’s history.

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Join us for a talk by @collthrush.bsky.social, author of the recently published Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific.

Thursday October 2nd 3:30pm
University of Washington
Allen Library North-Petersen Room

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Did you know that you can subscribe to the Pacific Northwest Quarterly directly on our website😉?! Link in bio!

Lummi dugout canoe, Bellingham, ca. 1930

#OnThisDay in 1989, tribal canoes participating in the Paddle to Seattle arrived at Golden Gardens Park. historylink.org/File/20269

Are Species Timeless?: Talking with Bathsheba Demuth About the Arctic “There was an interdependence that was very clear in the animal relationships in the Arctic.”

New at PB: In the latest in our Public Thinker series, Gabriel N. Rosenberg interviews Bathsheba Demuth (@brdemuth.bsky.social) about her book "Floating Coast," which narrates the Arctic not as an edge, but as a center.

Sunset behind St. Joseph Medical Center, Tacoma, June 27, 2021

Four years ago today, a heat wave broiled Western Washington, shattering Seattle and regional temperature records. historylink.org/File/21266

Mount Rainier

#OnThisDay in 1981, an avalanche killed 11 climbers as they ascended Mount Rainier. historylink.org/File/10796

Seattle Gay Pride event poster, hosted by Shelly's Leg, 1974

A Seattle walking tour of Pioneer Square’s LGBTQ+ History: historylink.tours/tour/pioneer... #PrideMonth

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Gregor Craigie spoke with author Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa and contributor xwməθkwəỷəm Debbie Sparrow about their new book, The Teachings of Mutton: A Coast Salish Woolly Dog. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Great Seattle Fire, June 6, 1889

#OnThisDay in 1889, the Great Seattle Fire destroyed much of the city's commercial core and waterfront. historylink.org/file/21090

The US Pacific Northwest leg of the Wrecked book tour is now set. Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia, Bellingham, Beaverton, Astoria, and Coos Bay. Details at collthrush.com.

Promotional graphic for event featuring Coll Thrush with Joshua L. Reid, on June 3 at 7:30 PM. Headshots of both speakers are included with event details listed on a purple background. The book cover for "Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific" is to the right of the event details. The Town Hall Seattle and University of Washington Press logos are at the top.

6/3 at 7:30 PM | With Joshua L. Reid (citizen of the Snohomish Indian Nation), historian and author @collthrush.bsky.social shares tales of shipwrecks in the Northwest and what they reveal about colonization.

Presented in partnership with @uwapress.bsky.social

🎟 Get tickets: buff.ly/qXe99Et

Green background with white lettering upper left hand corner "Pacific Northwest Quarterly: New Issue out now" Image of green magazine cover repeated three times in lower right hand corner

Kimberly Jensen on the process of researching and writing "Oregon’s Others". Nathan Bradshaw and Michael Allen on the history of the Ellensburg tree saddle across the American West. Ken Mather examines Joel Palmer’s trips to BC, and Lionel Youst compares oral and written records in Coos Bay, Oregon.