History

WSU Vancouver researcher analyzes The Great Drought — the most devastating in the past 800 years — and the Global Famine.

WSU Tri-Cities will launch its first book in a new series known as the Hanford Histories at 5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4.

Wyatt Wineinger, whose father piloted the Day’s Pay B-17 bomber, will donate artifacts from the Hanford employee-funded airplane to WSU Tri-Cities.

The recent discoveries may hold the key to an ongoing American West conflict.

WSU librarian Trevor Bond has been selected by Washington State Historical Society as the recipient of the 2018 Charles Gates Memorial Award.

WSU Vancouver professor Sue Peabody’s book about slavery in the Indian Ocean world is being called “both biography and global history at their very best.”

Two Hollywood production companies have optioned English instructor’s epic tale of the Aztecs’ last stand.

$60,153 awarded to support projects focusing on faculty professional goals to advance universitywide arts and humanities initiatives.

PULLMAN, Wash. – Celebrated mariner Captain James Cook set sail on his third exploratory venture in July 1776. The British Admiralty produced an official record shortly after the expedition’s 1780 return.

By Maegan Murray, WSU Tri-Cities

RICHLAND, Wash. – Washington State University Tri-Cities’ Hanford History Project will celebrate Black History Month on Saturday, Feb. 3, with the kick-off of a project that will document African American History at the Hanford Site.