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Congratulations to Coll Thrush whose book WRECKED is a 2026 Pacific Northwest Book Awards winner! The awards committee praised the book as "groundbreaking, compassionate work and a valuable contribution to the historical canon of the Pacific Northwest."
“Wrecked” by Coll Thrush Wins 2026 Pacific Northwest Book Award
We are thrilled to share that Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific by Coll Thrush is a 2026 Pacific Northwest Book Awards winner! Sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Books…
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January 8, 2026 at 12:37 AM
Congratulations to Coll Thrush whose book WRECKED is a 2026 Pacific Northwest Book Awards winner! The awards committee praised the book as "groundbreaking, compassionate work and a valuable contribution to the historical canon of the Pacific Northwest."
PERFORMING VULNERABILITY by Emily L. Hue "reminds us that there is no expiration date for the trauma of migration; the emotional rupture of uprooting from one's homeland can reverberate across decades."
Read a review by Melissa Carlson in CAA Reviews:
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Read a review by Melissa Carlson in CAA Reviews:
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January 6, 2026 at 11:52 PM
PERFORMING VULNERABILITY by Emily L. Hue "reminds us that there is no expiration date for the trauma of migration; the emotional rupture of uprooting from one's homeland can reverberate across decades."
Read a review by Melissa Carlson in CAA Reviews:
www.caareviews.org/reviews/4353
Read a review by Melissa Carlson in CAA Reviews:
www.caareviews.org/reviews/4353
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Elizabeth Ferrer (LATINX PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE UNITED STATES) shares about her upcoming exhibition at the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum, "the first to fully survey photography by Chicanos from the Chicano Civil Rights Era to the present day." Read the Q&A:
Find Artists Where They Are: Talking with Elizabeth Ferrer | Glasstire
Joseph R. Wolin speaks with curator and art historian Elizabeth Ferrer about her decades-long interest in and scholarship on Latinx art.
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December 31, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Elizabeth Ferrer (LATINX PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE UNITED STATES) shares about her upcoming exhibition at the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum, "the first to fully survey photography by Chicanos from the Chicano Civil Rights Era to the present day." Read the Q&A:
REFUSING SETTLER DOMESTICITY "offers a unique approach to the longer history of Indigenous labor exploitation in California," writes Mary Klann for LABOR, praising the book's "vivacious, complex, and sometimes heartbreaking stories" of Bay Area outing participants. @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social
Refusing Settler Domesticity: Native Women’s Labor and Resistance in the Bay Area Outing Program
Caitlin Keliiaa’s Refusing Settler Domesticity not only provides a necessary additive to the historiography of Indian boarding schools but also offers a unique approach to the longer history of Indige...
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December 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
REFUSING SETTLER DOMESTICITY "offers a unique approach to the longer history of Indigenous labor exploitation in California," writes Mary Klann for LABOR, praising the book's "vivacious, complex, and sometimes heartbreaking stories" of Bay Area outing participants. @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social
As the year winds to a close, we're excited to share our Spring 2026 catalog of books being published in January 2026 and beyond—all available for preorder now.
Through January 2, 2026, use code WINTER25 at checkout on our website to receive 40% off plus free domestic shipping on all books.
Through January 2, 2026, use code WINTER25 at checkout on our website to receive 40% off plus free domestic shipping on all books.
Explore the UW Press Spring 2026 Catalog
The University of Washington Press is excited to share our Spring 2026 catalog. Browse books that will be published in January and beyond—all available for pre-order on our website now. The cover p…
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December 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
As the year winds to a close, we're excited to share our Spring 2026 catalog of books being published in January 2026 and beyond—all available for preorder now.
Through January 2, 2026, use code WINTER25 at checkout on our website to receive 40% off plus free domestic shipping on all books.
Through January 2, 2026, use code WINTER25 at checkout on our website to receive 40% off plus free domestic shipping on all books.
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@uwapress.uw.edu press had a very generously discounted book sale.
It would have been impolite of me not to make a purchase.
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It would have been impolite of me not to make a purchase.
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December 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
@uwapress.uw.edu press had a very generously discounted book sale.
It would have been impolite of me not to make a purchase.
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It would have been impolite of me not to make a purchase.
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WOMEN WRITERS OF HUIZHOU by Binbin Yang offers an innovative spatial analysis of Qing women's writing.
"In this perfect gem of a book the tumultuous worlds of China's long nineteenth century come alive." —Dorothy Ko
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"In this perfect gem of a book the tumultuous worlds of China's long nineteenth century come alive." —Dorothy Ko
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December 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
WOMEN WRITERS OF HUIZHOU by Binbin Yang offers an innovative spatial analysis of Qing women's writing.
"In this perfect gem of a book the tumultuous worlds of China's long nineteenth century come alive." —Dorothy Ko
Learn more: uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
#AsianStudies
"In this perfect gem of a book the tumultuous worlds of China's long nineteenth century come alive." —Dorothy Ko
Learn more: uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
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#ArtHerstory has published the "New Books about #WomenArtists" book round-up for Q3, 2025! Visit this link for a list of recently published monographs & exhibition catalogs, as well as novels & books for young readers:
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Books About Women Artists | Published July-Sept 2025
A list of books about women artists from the 3rd quarter of 2025: children's books, novels, adult non-fiction, and exhibition catalogs.
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December 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
#ArtHerstory has published the "New Books about #WomenArtists" book round-up for Q3, 2025! Visit this link for a list of recently published monographs & exhibition catalogs, as well as novels & books for young readers:
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Now available, QUEERING THE HMONG DIASPORA by Kong Pheng Pha offers a groundbreaking exploration of race, gender, and sexuality.
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December 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Now available, QUEERING THE HMONG DIASPORA by Kong Pheng Pha offers a groundbreaking exploration of race, gender, and sexuality.
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"Thrush spent six years combing through archives, oral histories and ship logs to unearth tales of sinking and survival, exploitation and tragedy."
Read more about WRECKED by historian Coll Thrush in UW Magazine:
Read more about WRECKED by historian Coll Thrush in UW Magazine:
Historian Coll Thrush researches the dark history of Northwest shipwrecks in “Wrecked”
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December 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
"Thrush spent six years combing through archives, oral histories and ship logs to unearth tales of sinking and survival, exploitation and tragedy."
Read more about WRECKED by historian Coll Thrush in UW Magazine:
Read more about WRECKED by historian Coll Thrush in UW Magazine:
At Outrider, Jessica Urwin, author of CONTAMINATED COUNTRY, discusses nuclear colonialism in Australia and the Aboriginal movement against out-of-sight, out-of-mind nuclear activity.
The Exploitation, Survival, and Resistance of Aboriginal Australians in ‘Contaminated Country’
Environmental historian Jessica Urwin talks about her new book on Australia’s nuclear weapons testing and its impact on the country’s indigenous people
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December 5, 2025 at 12:07 AM
At Outrider, Jessica Urwin, author of CONTAMINATED COUNTRY, discusses nuclear colonialism in Australia and the Aboriginal movement against out-of-sight, out-of-mind nuclear activity.
@historytoday.com names LIFE AND AFTERLIFE IN ANCIENT CHINA by Jessica Rawson a 2025 Book of the Year. This "richly evidenced book" on material life and burials in Chinese antiquity is available to North American readers from UW Press.
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Peasants and popes, free speech and fashion, sentimentality and special forces: the first 10 of 20 historians choose their favourite new #history books of 2025.
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Books of the Year 2025: Part 1
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December 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
@historytoday.com names LIFE AND AFTERLIFE IN ANCIENT CHINA by Jessica Rawson a 2025 Book of the Year. This "richly evidenced book" on material life and burials in Chinese antiquity is available to North American readers from UW Press.
Learn more: uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
Learn more: uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
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Happy to report that _Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People_ is now on JSTOR thanks to the Path to Open program. @uwapress.uw.edu @acls1919.bsky.social @jstor.bsky.social
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Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People: The Burden of Conservation in Modern China on JSTOR
State-led conservation transformed Gansu's landscape—rural communities bore the costs From the 1940s to the 1960s, soil and water conservation measures tra...
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November 30, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Happy to report that _Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People_ is now on JSTOR thanks to the Path to Open program. @uwapress.uw.edu @acls1919.bsky.social @jstor.bsky.social
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Today's featured title:
“Unsettled Ground: The Whitman Massacre and Its Shifting Legacy in the American West,” by Cassandra Tate, University of Washington Press, 2025
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“Unsettled Ground: The Whitman Massacre and Its Shifting Legacy in the American West,” by Cassandra Tate, University of Washington Press, 2025
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November 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Today's featured title:
“Unsettled Ground: The Whitman Massacre and Its Shifting Legacy in the American West,” by Cassandra Tate, University of Washington Press, 2025
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“Unsettled Ground: The Whitman Massacre and Its Shifting Legacy in the American West,” by Cassandra Tate, University of Washington Press, 2025
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On @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, Micah S. Muscolino discusses REMAKING THE EARTH, EXHAUSTING THE PEOPLE, tracing how state-led conservation transformed China’s countryside and how rural communities bore the costs.
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Micah S. Muscolino, "Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People: The Burden of Conservation in Modern China" (U Washington Press, 2025) - New Books Network
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November 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
On @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, Micah S. Muscolino discusses REMAKING THE EARTH, EXHAUSTING THE PEOPLE, tracing how state-led conservation transformed China’s countryside and how rural communities bore the costs.
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Hi all! Nice time to support Native writers during Native American Heritage Month with 40% off my book #AlaskaNativeResilience Voices from World War II when you order through UW Press website and use the code WINTER25
Quyaana!
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November 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Hi all! Nice time to support Native writers during Native American Heritage Month with 40% off my book #AlaskaNativeResilience Voices from World War II when you order through UW Press website and use the code WINTER25
Quyaana!
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📢 The annual UW Press Holiday Sale is here!
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November 17, 2025 at 10:09 PM
📢 The annual UW Press Holiday Sale is here!
November 17, 2025–January 2, 2026, get 40% off and free domestic shipping on all books sitewide with promo code WINTER25 at checkout.
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November 17, 2025–January 2, 2026, get 40% off and free domestic shipping on all books sitewide with promo code WINTER25 at checkout.
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Today in the ARB: @davidchaffetz reviews “The Poetic Way of Xie Lingyun: Literary Expression and the Natural World” by Ping Wang @UWAPress “highly readable and comprehensive” asianreviewofbooks.com/the-poetic-w...
“The Poetic Way of Xie Lingyun: Literary Expression and the Natural World” by Ping Wang
Not as well-known as the classic poets of the Tang era, Xie Lingyun (385-433) stands at a turning point in Chinese literature. The long-ruling Han dynasty had a conservative view of culture. Schola…
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November 16, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Today in the ARB: @davidchaffetz reviews “The Poetic Way of Xie Lingyun: Literary Expression and the Natural World” by Ping Wang @UWAPress “highly readable and comprehensive” asianreviewofbooks.com/the-poetic-w...
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Got to write about 2 books that examine indigenous sovereignty: Ryan Emanuel's ON THE SWAMP & the late Charles Wilkinson's TREATY JUSTICE. Wilkinson looks back at revolutionary work in the not-distant past while Emanuel shows a path forward. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
The Third Sovereign | Robert Sullivan
If there is hope for the earth, it will depend in part on acknowledging indigenous sovereignty in the face of insatiable resource extraction.
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November 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Got to write about 2 books that examine indigenous sovereignty: Ryan Emanuel's ON THE SWAMP & the late Charles Wilkinson's TREATY JUSTICE. Wilkinson looks back at revolutionary work in the not-distant past while Emanuel shows a path forward. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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"Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon" (2012) from @uwapress.uw.edu: Who would have known that a silly little vegetable has such an interesting story? 8/10.
November 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
"Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon" (2012) from @uwapress.uw.edu: Who would have known that a silly little vegetable has such an interesting story? 8/10.
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Tamiko Nimura's long-awaited memoir is set to release next year, and today she reveals its cover on Discover Nikkei! Find out why she chose such a personal photo for the book, and what the memoir is about.
Cover Reveal: A Place For What We Lose
I have been writing for Discover Nikkei since 2012—almost as long as I have been working on my forthcoming memoir, A Place For What We Lose: A Daughter’s Return to Tule Lake. It seemed fitting to publish a “cover reveal” here, one of my publishing homes. After I sent a few photos and ideas about …
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November 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Tamiko Nimura's long-awaited memoir is set to release next year, and today she reveals its cover on Discover Nikkei! Find out why she chose such a personal photo for the book, and what the memoir is about.
For Native American Heritage Month, Indigenous authors, scholars, and historians recommend five books that center Native voices and experiences. Find the reading list on our blog:
Five Recommended Reads for Native American Heritage Month
Every November, we mark Native American Heritage Month as a time to uplift the traditions, languages, and stories of Native American and Alaska Native communities, ensuring their contributions and …
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November 6, 2025 at 12:35 AM
For Native American Heritage Month, Indigenous authors, scholars, and historians recommend five books that center Native voices and experiences. Find the reading list on our blog:
Watch Northwest Public Broadcasting's short documentary based on Coll Thrush's book, WRECKED, at the link below.
Many thanks to senior correspondent Anna King, who joined the author on the Northwest Coast to explore how the echoes of shipwrecks still resonate today.
Many thanks to senior correspondent Anna King, who joined the author on the Northwest Coast to explore how the echoes of shipwrecks still resonate today.
Wrecked: Sinking ships and colliding cultures on the Northwest Coast
Historian Coll Thrush’s book titled “Wrecked” traces the history of iconic shipwrecks on the Pacific Northwest Coast and what impacts the wrecks have had on the Indigenous communities there.
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October 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Watch Northwest Public Broadcasting's short documentary based on Coll Thrush's book, WRECKED, at the link below.
Many thanks to senior correspondent Anna King, who joined the author on the Northwest Coast to explore how the echoes of shipwrecks still resonate today.
Many thanks to senior correspondent Anna King, who joined the author on the Northwest Coast to explore how the echoes of shipwrecks still resonate today.