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University of Washington Press @uwapress.uw.edu · Jul 14
Our Fall 2025 catalog is here! Get a sneak peek at upcoming releases and new-in-paperback books landing this September and beyond. Browse the catalog: ow.ly/FQNs50Wnn3H
Cover of the University of Washington Press Fall 2025 catalog. The top portion features a retro-inspired design with curved bands of tan, brown, orange, and pink. The text reads "University of Washington Press, Fall 2025" in a serif font. The bottom half shows a photograph of a group of women seated in a crowded auditorium—delegates representing Saipan Micronesia at the National Women’s Conference in 1977. The photo has a warm, slightly faded tone.
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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.
The cover of "Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon." It is a photograph of the skin of an orange pumpkin.
November 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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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
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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
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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.
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
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Join me & @mmuscolino.bsky.social discussing his book Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People: The Burden of Conservation in Modern China tomorrow (Monday, 27 October 2025) at 4pm Central European / 11am Eastern / 8am Pacific
Live talk details:
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October 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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"What makes FIGHTING FOR THE PUYALLUP TRIBE such a compelling work is its unwavering refusal to sanitize or sugarcoat history. Bennett does not romanticize activism or hide its conflicts or personal costs."

For American Indian Republic, Miguel Douglas reviews Ramona Bennett Bill's memoir:
Fighting for the Puyallup Tribe: Memory, Sovereignty, and Survival in Ramona Bennett’s Memoir
Ramona Bennett Bill’s Fighting for the Puyallup Tribe: A Memoir reminds us that sovereignty is not defined by court rulings alone but by the lived struggles of those who risked everything for their pe...
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October 22, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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In TAIWAN LIVES, Niki J. P. Alsford "has given Taiwan something many contested entities still lack: a history told from within," writes Mitchell Gallagher in a review for China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social.

Read the full review:
Taiwan Lives: A Social and Political History Niki J. P. Alsford. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2024. 302 pp. $35.00 (pbk). ISBN 9780295752167 | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Taiwan Lives: A Social and Political History Niki J. P. Alsford. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2024. 302 pp. $35.00 (pbk). ISBN 9780295752167
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October 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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That's a wrap for #WHA2025! Big thanks to the Western History Association and everyone who came by our booth. A reminder for all WHA members: our 40% off conference discount code, WWHA25, is valid through October 31!

Browse and save on books in #WesternHistory: uwapress.uw.edu/western-hist...
Author Caitlin Keliiaa showing off her book, Refusing Settler Domesticity, at the University of Washington Press booth. Additional books in western history are on display behind. Author Coll Thrush showing off his book, Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific, at the University of Washington Press booth. Additional books in western history are on display behind. Author Adrian De Leon showing off his forthcoming book, Balikbayan: A Revenant History of the Filipino Homeland, at the University of Washington Press booth. Additional books in western history are on display behind. Author Holly Miowak Guise smiling while displaying three framed award certificates for her book, Alaska Native Resilience, at the Western History Association Conference.
October 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Join us to celebrate the 2025 ACLS #OpenAccess Book Prize winners at The New York Public Library on October 22 at 4:15 PM!

This free event will feature discussions with winning publishers & authors moderated by Beth Daley of The Conversation

Register here: https://bit.ly/46wpxtk
Meet the 2025 ACLS Open Access Book Prize Winners. Wednesday, October 22, 4:15 PM. The New York Public Library, Celeste Auditorium, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 476 Fifth Ave.
October 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Congratulations to Holly Miowak Guise whose book ALASKA NATIVE RESILIENCE won three book awards from the Western History Association! #WHA2025
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“Alaska Native Resilience” Garners Western History Association Awards
Congratulations to Holly Miowak Guise whose book “Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II” was awarded three prizes from the Western History Association.
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October 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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It's a literal beach read! THE BEACH CURE by historian of medicine Meghan Crnic explores how physicians, tourists, and families transformed the Northeastern US shoreline into a medical and cultural landscape in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Learn more: uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
Book cover for The Beach Cure: A History of Healing on Northeastern Shores by Meghan Crnic, with a foreword by Paul S. Sutter. The cover features a vintage photo of a crowded beach with people in early 20th-century swimwear wading in the ocean, set against a teal sky.
October 14, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Listen to Timothy Thurston talk about "Satirical Tibet" on Ep. 25 of the China Books Podcast: chinabooksreview.com/2025/10/07/e...
October 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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"The book forces area studies scholars to think deeper about identity formation & the range of forces affecting #Taiwanese students’ choices" Meredith Oyen on "Island X" by Wendy Cheng

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October 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Thank you so much to everyone that came out last week to hear @collthrush.bsky.social talk on his newest @uwapress.uw.edu title Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific. And special thanks to UW History and UW Libraries for their support.
Author Coll Thrush stands at a podium in front of a large seated crowd and next to a projection of the Title Page information for his book Wrecked.
October 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Read Camelia Dewan's piece on climate-reductive development that threatens a complex waterscape for Bangladesh's The Daily Star.

Dewan is the author of MISREADING THE BENGAL DELTA, available #OpenAccess through the Sustainable History Monograph Pilot:
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Misreading Climate Change in Bangladesh
Perilously close to rising sea levels and vulnerable to floods, erosion, and cyclones, Bangladesh is one of the top recipients of development aid earmarked for adaptation to climate change.
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October 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Marking 50 years since the landmark Boldt Decision, Lynda V. Mapes and tribal leaders Jay Julius and Scott Schuyler discuss TREATY JUSTICE, the final work of legal scholar Charles Wilkinson.

📅 Wed. October 8 at 7 pm
📍 Third Place Books Lake Forest Park

RSVP: www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/treaty...
Promotional graphic for event at Third Place Books Lake Forest Park. Lynda Mapes, Scott Schuyler, and Jeremiah “Jay” Julius speak on Wed 10/8 at 7pm about Treaty Justice by Charles Wilkinson. Includes book cover and headshots of the three speakers.
October 1, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Don't miss this event sponsored by us, the UW Department of History, @uwapress.uw.edu and the University of Washington Libraries.

Tomorrow!
Thursday Oct 2nd 2025 at 3:30pm
Petersen Room of Allen Library North
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Join us for a talk by @collthrush.bsky.social, author of the recently published Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific.

Thursday October 2nd 3:30pm
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Allen Library North-Petersen Room
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October 1, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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We are mourning the loss of historian Quintard Taylor, who was the founder of BlackPast.org and an esteemed UW professor. It was our great honor to publish one of his landmark books, THE FORGING OF A BLACK COMMUNITY.
Quintard Taylor, UW professor and Black history archivist, dies at 76
Quintard Taylor Jr., professor emeritus of history at UW and founder of an online archive of Black history, died Sunday.
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September 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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It’s always a good day when we publish @octavia-cade.bsky.social on climate, and here she is on Benjamin Bigelow on ecohorror in Nordic cinema (@uwapress.uw.edu): “films … hold a mirror to human and environmental interaction, how the exploitation of natural resources is integrated into culture.”
Menacing Environments by Benjamin Bigelow
Nordic horror films, says Bigelow, hold a mirror to human and environmental interaction.
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September 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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"Among the Puyallup Tribe of Indians, elder Ramona Bennett Bill is a most notable historic figure and veritable force of nature to this very day."

Read an article on Ramona Bennett Bill's new memoir, FIGHTING FOR THE PUYALLUP TRIBE:
A living legend publishes her memoir
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September 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Now on our blog: Aaron Goings @aarongoings.bsky.social shares how RED HARBOR uncovers the forgotten history of lumber workers in a bastion of labor radicalism.
The Radical Roots of the Pacific Northwest Labor Movement: Q&A with Aaron Goings, Author of “Red Harbor”
In his new book, Red Harbor: Radical Workers and Community Struggle in the Pacific Northwest, leading Pacific Northwest labor historian Aaron Goings brings to life the fiery legacy of class conflic…
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September 9, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Congratulations to our members @ucpress.bsky.social @stanfordpress.bsky.social & @uwapress.uw.edu. Must be something in the water out West!
acls1919.bsky.social American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · Sep 9
ACLS is pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards. These prizes recognize and reward the authors and publishers of exceptional, innovative, and open access humanities books published from 2018 to 2023: bit.ly/4mS9oDX
ACLS Announces Winners of 2025 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards
$50,000 prizes award four open access books in the humanities and fund future open access publications
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September 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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The 2025 winner in Environmental Humanities is Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh by @cameliadewan.bsky.social (@uwapress.uw.edu, 2021)
Cover of Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh by Camelia Dewan
September 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Anthropologist and former mortician Ruth Toulson discusses NECROPOLITICS OF THE ORDINARY: Death and Grieving in Contemporary Singapore with Miranda Melcher for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social:
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Book cover of Necropolitics of the Ordinary: Death and Grieving in Contemporary Singapore by Ruth E. Toulson. The image shows a night scene of a funeral ritual with a large burning pyre surrounded by scattered paper offerings. In the background, a person in a white shirt throws paper joss money into the air, which glows orange against the dark sky. The title text is displayed prominently across the top and center in white capital letters.
September 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Are you in Seattle for #4S2025? Join us for a UW Social! As a Society + Technology at UW community partner, we are thrilled to cohost a gathering of #STS faculty and students on Friday, September 5 at 8:30 PM—free for 4S attendees. Register here: tinyurl.com/uwsocialat4s
Promotional flyer for UW Social, a University of Washington social event at the 4S 2025 Seattle conference. Top banner reads, "First 150 get a free drink sticker!" Event details: Friday, September 5, 8:30–10:00 PM, Garden Terrace at the Summit. Large "UW Social" logo in black with a dotted abstract design. 4S 2025 Seattle conference logo in the upper right. Link displayed in blue banner: https://tinyurl.com/uwsocialat4s Bottom row shows sponsor logos: UW Medicine, Cinema & Media Studies, DXArts, Department of Communication, Tech Policy Lab, Human Centered Design & Engineering, Society + Technology UW, University of Washington Press, UW Department of Philosophy, UW Bothell School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, and STSS.
September 3, 2025 at 4:24 PM