By Nella Letizia, WSU Libraries PULLMAN, Wash. – More than two decades ago, a small parking lot and 140,000 cubic yards of dirt and trees inhabited the spot where Washington State University’s Terrell Library and iconic dome stand. Terrell celebrates its 20th anniversary and kicks off a new academic year this week with a retrospective […]
PULLMAN, Wash. – Baseball, family history and Mexican American community identity load the bases in a peer-reviewed article by a Washington State University administrator in the recent issue of the Indiana Magazine of History.
PULLMAN, Wash. – Cougar Gold namesake and former Washington State University professor Norman Shirley Golding is not as famous as the cheese he helped develop. But he should be.
PULLMAN, Wash. – The public is invited to a planting ceremony for a small tree with a big history at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 22, at the Washington State University Arboretum and Wildlife Center. The location is on Terre View Road between the Moscow-Pullman Highway and Grimes Road.
By Nella Letizia, WSU Libraries PULLMAN, Wash. – The impact of the Depression-era Works Progress Administration often is measured by the millions of jobs it created, the billions of dollars spent on national public works projects and even a song about the Grand Coulee Dam by folksinger Woody Guthrie. In the Pacific Northwest, one WPA […]
By J. Adrian Aumen, College of Arts & Sciences PULLMAN, Wash. – William Cronon, one of the country’s foremost environmental writers, thinkers and historians, will be the featured speaker at two free, public events March 26-27 as part of Washington State University’s Visiting Writer Series.
By Alli Benjamin, College of Nursing SPOKANE, Wash. – Intricate birth stories of interest to midwives, nurses, doctors and students combine with rugged Seattle pioneer history and some fictional characters in a new book by Washington State University assistant professor of nursing Susan Fleming.
By Nella Letizia, WSU Libraries PULLMAN, Wash. – From sewing a miniature book binding to watching a demonstration of shaping a stone tool, nearly 200 eighth-graders from Lincoln Middle School recently took a whirlwind tour of library sciences and anthropological research at Washington State University to prepare for their final history project this spring.
By Adriana Aumen, College of Arts and Sciences RICHLAND, Wash. – When Miles Pasch began working at the Hanford nuclear plant in 1945 most of his job in communications involved openly installing telephone lines throughout the site. One project, however, was top secret.
By Linda Weiford, WSU News PULLMAN, Wash. – From the grassy knoll in Dallas to the wheat-covered hills of the Palouse, President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963 remains a whodunit that stumps the old and young alike. Or maybe not.