In celebration of the new exhibit, A Thousand Words Worth: Washington Authors Tell Stories Through Objects, the Washington State History Museum is hosting its first ever book fair, and WSU Press will be there! Meet WSU Press authors Christopher Murray, Richard Waitt, Candace Wellman, and Robert Wright, and get your books signed! The event is Included with museum admission, and is FREE for members. We'll have great discounts on a variety of titles.  

In the book industry, when bookstores and distributors return books, it is inevitable that some are damaged. Most of the time it’s just a bent corner or a bit of rubbing on the covers, but it means WSU Press can’t resell them to other bookstore customers. So what do we do? We collect them and have a damaged book sale—usually only once a year. This year, it’s on WSU’s Mom’s Weekend. So come on out to our offices in the…

Candace Wellman will present "Inside the Archives: Exploring Whatcom County's 19th Century Cross-Cultural Marriages." She will discuss her research process and subsequent discoveries. The talk is free and open to the public. While helping researchers at the Washington State Archives, Candace Wellman discovered that 80-90 percent of all marriages in Whatcom County’s early decades were cross-cultural. The husbands included nearly every community founder and official, yet history authors mentioned only white women as founding mothers. She became determined to illuminate the…

Candace Wellman will be the featured local author for Indie Bookstore Day at Village Books in Lynden (Waples Room). She is the author of "Peace Weavers: Uniting the Salish Coast Through Cross-Cultural Marriages" and "Interwoven Lives: Indigenous Mothers of Salish Coast Communities." While helping researchers at the Washington State Archives, Wellman discovered that 80-90 percent of all marriages in Whatcom County’s early decades were cross-cultural. The husbands included nearly every community founder and official, yet history authors mentioned only white women…

It’s a LAUNCH PARTY! Meet the authors and celebrate the release of Leading the Crimson and Gray: The Presidents of Washington State University, a new title from WSU Press. Leading the Crimson and Gray chronicles the lives and legacies of those who served in one of WSU’s most visible roles—president. The outstanding gathering of chapter authors includes professors, editors, an archivist, an associate dean, graduate and doctoral students, an assistant vice president, and a chancellor. All have strong ties to…

Learn about early railroads on the Palouse at a presentation by Philip F. Beach, author of Wheat Country Railroad: The Northern Pacific’s Spokane & Palouse and Competitors. Racing for regional economic supremacy, the Oregon Railway & Navigation Co., Union Pacific, and Northern Pacific Railroad laid rail, invested capital, speculated, and built a remarkable infrastructure—competition that played a critical role in agricultural and population growth on the Palouse. Wheat Country Railroad offers the most comprehensive and detailed study ever compiled on their intense…

Meet Candace Wellman, author of Peace Weavers: Uniting the Salish Coast Through Cross-Cultural Marriages and Interwoven Lives: Indigenous Mothers of Salish Coast Communities. While helping researchers at the Washington State Archives, Wellman discovered that 80-90 percent of all marriages in Whatcom County’s early decades were cross-cultural. The husbands included nearly every community founder and official, yet history authors mentioned only white women as founding mothers. She became determined to illuminate the hidden history surrounding these relationships. Over twenty plus years, and working with…