I was searching for an up-to-date account of the events and issues surrounding Boldt Decision on the 50th anniversary of that momentous court case, and Treaty Justice was just the ticket. While I learned what I had hoped to about the so-called “fish wars,” I found the book to offer an outstanding overall account of the …
Trailblazing Black Women of Washington State Saturday, March 9, 2024 1:00PM – 2:00PM Skyway King County Library 12601 76th Avenue S Seattle WA 98178 Join author and historian Marilyn Morgan as she chronicles the incredible lives and contributions of Washington’s Black women. Marilyn Morgan is an author, historian, and photographer. Her published books include Careers in Criminology, …
The violent events that took place near what is now Walla Walla on November 29, 1847 served for at least a century as a creation myth for the state of Washington, a legend of heroic sacrifice to noble ideals. But the traditional story of the Whitman Mission and the attack on its occupants is just …
In the Don’t Eat the Dirt In Your Backyard Department, we have Steve Olson’s The Apocalypse Factory, which is about plutonium and Hanford and what’s still out there in Eastern Washington. Of course, this may be old news to long-time residents of this state, but if you’ve read Adam Higgingbotham’s Midnight in Chernobyl and Kate …
