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Wrecked: Sinking ships and colliding cultures on the Northwest Coast Historian Coll Thrush’s book titled “Wrecked” traces the history of iconic shipwrecks on the Pacific Northwest Coast and what impacts the wrecks have had on the Indigenous communities there.

Watch Northwest Public Broadcasting's short documentary based on Coll Thrush's book, WRECKED, at the link below.
Many thanks to senior correspondent Anna King, who joined the author on the Northwest Coast to explore how the echoes of shipwrecks still resonate today.

Book cover with people working in fields

Join me & @mmuscolino.bsky.social discussing his book Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People: The Burden of Conservation in Modern China tomorrow (Monday, 27 October 2025) at 4pm Central European / 11am Eastern / 8am Pacific
Live talk details:
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
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Fighting for the Puyallup Tribe: Memory, Sovereignty, and Survival in Ramona Bennett’s Memoir Ramona Bennett Bill’s Fighting for the Puyallup Tribe: A Memoir reminds us that sovereignty is not defined by court rulings alone but by the lived struggles of those who risked everything for their pe...

"What makes FIGHTING FOR THE PUYALLUP TRIBE such a compelling work is its unwavering refusal to sanitize or sugarcoat history. Bennett does not romanticize activism or hide its conflicts or personal costs."

For American Indian Republic, Miguel Douglas reviews Ramona Bennett Bill's memoir:

In TAIWAN LIVES, Niki J. P. Alsford "has given Taiwan something many contested entities still lack: a history told from within," writes Mitchell Gallagher in a review for China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social.

Read the full review:

Author Caitlin Keliiaa showing off her book, Refusing Settler Domesticity, at the University of Washington Press booth. Additional books in western history are on display behind.

Author Coll Thrush showing off his book, Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific, at the University of Washington Press booth. Additional books in western history are on display behind.

Author Adrian De Leon showing off his forthcoming book, Balikbayan: A Revenant History of the Filipino Homeland, at the University of Washington Press booth. Additional books in western history are on display behind.

Author Holly Miowak Guise smiling while displaying three framed award certificates for her book, Alaska Native Resilience, at the Western History Association Conference.

That's a wrap for #WHA2025! Big thanks to the Western History Association and everyone who came by our booth. A reminder for all WHA members: our 40% off conference discount code, WWHA25, is valid through October 31!

Browse and save on books in #WesternHistory: uwapress.uw.edu/western-hist...

Meet the 2025 ACLS Open Access Book Prize Winners. Wednesday, October 22, 4:15 PM. The New York Public Library, Celeste Auditorium, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 476 Fifth Ave.

Join us to celebrate the 2025 ACLS #OpenAccess Book Prize winners at The New York Public Library on October 22 at 4:15 PM!

This free event will feature discussions with winning publishers & authors moderated by Beth Daley of The Conversation

Register here: https://bit.ly/46wpxtk

“Alaska Native Resilience” Garners Western History Association Awards Congratulations to Holly Miowak Guise whose book “Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II” was awarded three prizes from the Western History Association.

Congratulations to Holly Miowak Guise whose book ALASKA NATIVE RESILIENCE won three book awards from the Western History Association! #WHA2025
@hollyguise.bsky.social

Book cover for The Beach Cure: A History of Healing on Northeastern Shores by Meghan Crnic, with a foreword by Paul S. Sutter. The cover features a vintage photo of a crowded beach with people in early 20th-century swimwear wading in the ocean, set against a teal sky.

It's a literal beach read! THE BEACH CURE by historian of medicine Meghan Crnic explores how physicians, tourists, and families transformed the Northeastern US shoreline into a medical and cultural landscape in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Learn more: uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

🎉 We’re excited to celebrate with you at WHA!

Listen to Timothy Thurston talk about "Satirical Tibet" on Ep. 25 of the China Books Podcast: chinabooksreview.com/2025/10/07/e...

"The book forces area studies scholars to think deeper about identity formation & the range of forces affecting #Taiwanese students’ choices" Meredith Oyen on "Island X" by Wendy Cheng

@uwapress.uw.edu

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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.

Misreading Climate Change in Bangladesh Perilously close to rising sea levels and vulnerable to floods, erosion, and cyclones, Bangladesh is one of the top recipients of development aid earmarked for adaptation to climate change.

Read Camelia Dewan's piece on climate-reductive development that threatens a complex waterscape for Bangladesh's The Daily Star.

Dewan is the author of MISREADING THE BENGAL DELTA, available #OpenAccess through the Sustainable History Monograph Pilot:
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Promotional graphic for event at Third Place Books Lake Forest Park. Lynda Mapes, Scott Schuyler, and Jeremiah “Jay” Julius speak on Wed 10/8 at 7pm about Treaty Justice by Charles Wilkinson. Includes book cover and headshots of the three speakers.

Marking 50 years since the landmark Boldt Decision, Lynda V. Mapes and tribal leaders Jay Julius and Scott Schuyler discuss TREATY JUSTICE, the final work of legal scholar Charles Wilkinson.

📅 Wed. October 8 at 7 pm
📍 Third Place Books Lake Forest Park

RSVP: www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/treaty...

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

Quintard Taylor, UW professor and Black history archivist, dies at 76 Quintard Taylor Jr., professor emeritus of history at UW and founder of an online archive of Black history, died Sunday.

We are mourning the loss of historian Quintard Taylor, who was the founder of BlackPast.org and an esteemed UW professor. It was our great honor to publish one of his landmark books, THE FORGING OF A BLACK COMMUNITY.

It’s always a good day when we publish @octavia-cade.bsky.social on climate, and here she is on Benjamin Bigelow on ecohorror in Nordic cinema (@uwapress.uw.edu): “films … hold a mirror to human and environmental interaction, how the exploitation of natural resources is integrated into culture.”

A living legend publishes her memoir

"Among the Puyallup Tribe of Indians, elder Ramona Bennett Bill is a most notable historic figure and veritable force of nature to this very day."

Read an article on Ramona Bennett Bill's new memoir, FIGHTING FOR THE PUYALLUP TRIBE:

Promotional graphic for Red Harbor book launch event. The Elliott Bay Book Company logo is at the top left with event information below: Aaron Goings w/ Conor Casey, Wednesday, 9/10, 7 pm.

Join us for the RED HARBOR launch event tomorrow, September 10, at 7 pm at Elliott Bay Book Co. Aaron will be in conversation with Conor Casey, head of the Labor Archives of Washington. Learn more: www.elliottbaybook.com/events/47680

The Radical Roots of the Pacific Northwest Labor Movement: Q&A with Aaron Goings, Author of “Red Harbor” In his new book, Red Harbor: Radical Workers and Community Struggle in the Pacific Northwest, leading Pacific Northwest labor historian Aaron Goings brings to life the fiery legacy of class conflic…

Now on our blog: Aaron Goings @aarongoings.bsky.social shares how RED HARBOR uncovers the forgotten history of lumber workers in a bastion of labor radicalism.

Congratulations to our members @ucpress.bsky.social @stanfordpress.bsky.social & @uwapress.uw.edu. Must be something in the water out West!

Cover of Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh by Camelia Dewan

The 2025 winner in Environmental Humanities is Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh by @cameliadewan.bsky.social (@uwapress.uw.edu, 2021)

Book cover of Necropolitics of the Ordinary: Death and Grieving in Contemporary Singapore by Ruth E. Toulson. The image shows a night scene of a funeral ritual with a large burning pyre surrounded by scattered paper offerings. In the background, a person in a white shirt throws paper joss money into the air, which glows orange against the dark sky. The title text is displayed prominently across the top and center in white capital letters.

Anthropologist and former mortician Ruth Toulson discusses NECROPOLITICS OF THE ORDINARY: Death and Grieving in Contemporary Singapore with Miranda Melcher for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social:
newbooksnetwork.com/necropolitic...

Promotional flyer for UW Social, a University of Washington social event at the 4S 2025 Seattle conference. Top banner reads, "First 150 get a free drink sticker!" Event details: Friday, September 5, 8:30–10:00 PM, Garden Terrace at the Summit. Large "UW Social" logo in black with a dotted abstract design. 4S 2025 Seattle conference logo in the upper right. Link displayed in blue banner: https://tinyurl.com/uwsocialat4s Bottom row shows sponsor logos: UW Medicine, Cinema & Media Studies, DXArts, Department of Communication, Tech Policy Lab, Human Centered Design & Engineering, Society + Technology UW, University of Washington Press, UW Department of Philosophy, UW Bothell School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, and STSS.

Are you in Seattle for #4S2025? Join us for a UW Social! As a Society + Technology at UW community partner, we are thrilled to cohost a gathering of #STS faculty and students on Friday, September 5 at 8:30 PM—free for 4S attendees. Register here: tinyurl.com/uwsocialat4s

Book cover of Contested Taiwan: Sovereignty, Social Movements, and Party Formation by Lev Nachman, featuring a close-up photograph of a bright yellow sunflower against a dark background. The title is in bold white capital letters across the flower, with the author’s name at the top left and the subtitle in smaller white text at the bottom left.

"Likely to be seen as a Taiwan studies classic." —Dafydd Fell, author of Taiwan's Green Parties: Alternative Politics in Taiwan

@lnachman32.bsky.social's exploration of Taiwan's political landscape after the 2014 Sunflower Movement brings a fresh perspective to understanding social movement mobilization and political party formation.

Learn more about CONTESTED TAIWAN: uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

#TaiwanAndTheWorld

The Understory: Journalist Lynda Mapes urges local solutions for local forests Now retired from The Seattle Times, Lynda Mapes examines the future of forests in her sixth book, “The Trees are Speaking.”

Now retired from The Seattle Times, Lynda Mapes examines the future of forests in her sixth book, “The Trees are Speaking.”

Book cover for "Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People: The Burden of Conservation in Modern China" by Micah S. Muscolino. Features workers digging on a barren hillside under a pale sky, with bold title text overlayed.

"A remarkably nuanced and textured picture of agricultural policies, and their implementation, in post-1949 China." —David Pietz, author of "The Yellow River: The Problem with Water in China"

REMAKING THE EARTH, EXHAUSTING THE PEOPLE by Micah S. Muscolino @mmuscolino.bsky.social examines how Chinese state-led conservation transformed Gansu's landscape—and how rural communities bore the costs.

Available now: uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

Woohoo! Look what came in the mail today. At long last, decades after I started my study of community and radicalism in Grays Harbor, “Red Harbor” is here.

Big thanks to the @uwapress.bsky.social and the coolest book blurbers around.

And that’s Sabo—named for you know who 15 sweet years ago

Book cover of The Not-Quite Child by Liina-Ly Roos. The top half has a cream background with the title in bold red text and the author’s name in small dark blue text. The bottom half shows a photograph of Sámi children in traditional clothing, with the subtitle in white text: “Colonial Histories, Racialization, and Swedish Exceptionalism.”

The newest release in our New Directions in Scandinavian Studies series, THE NOT-QUITE CHILD by Liina-Ly Roos examines Swedish depictions of childhood that expose the country's colonial past and racial hierarchies.

Learn more: uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

'Old trees matter.' Seattle author Lynda Mapes is writing to save them in her new book The KUOW Book Club is continuing its summer reading series with Seattle Public Library this month. We're reading environmental journalist and author Lynda V. Mapes' new book, "The Trees are Speaking: ...

THE TREES ARE SPEAKING is a @kuow.org Book Club pick! It's not too late to start reading along—then join us for a special conversation with author Lynda V. Mapes and KUOW Book Club host Katie Campbell on Wednesday, August 27 at 7 PM at the Seattle Public Library.