New issue out now! "Jalando Parejo y Cambiando el Noroeste" (Shoulder to Shoulder, Changing the Pacific Northwest) spotlights Latinos/Latinas in the Pacific Northwest. Part 1 of this special 2-part issue includes articles on voting rights, school reform, and Quinceanera traditions.

University of Washington ablaze with color this afternoon when the sun popped out! Drumheller Fountain framed by The Mountain, from Red Square: 😎

Last week, western Alaska was hit by the powerful remnants of a typhoon. Recovery is just beginning for communities an airplane away building materials & other support. PBS has a good overview of this social-climate disaster. Ways to support linked below. m.youtube.com/watch?v=t5kz...

The Herbert G. Gutman Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in U.S. Labor and Working-Class History is now open for submissions! Full details here: go.illinois.edu/UIPGutmanPrize cc: @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social

Sharing some exciting news #AlaskaNativeResilience: Voices from World War II (my book!) published by @uwapress.uw.edu received the Robert M. Utley Book Prize for the best book published on military history of the frontier and western North America! #AKhistory, #Nativehistory, & #militarization

Thank you to the Pacific Northwest Historians Guild for having us, it was a great day of discussion and locally sourced historical thinking.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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-...

#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.

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

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.