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Essential Seattle
Essential Seattle
Welcome to Seattle! You can learn more about the city's histories and cultures in these excerpts from UW Press's Essential Seattle collection, available here through the month of June. Check out Seattle Walks for a few walking tours of the city, or Native Seattle for an atlas of Indigenous Seattle.
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The Forging of a Black Community
Seattle’s Central District from 1870 through the Civil Rights Era (excerpt)
Quintard Taylor
Heartbreak City
Seattle Sports and the Unmet Promise of Urban Progress (excerpt)
Shaun Scott
Jesintel
Living Wisdom from Coast Salish Elders (excerpt)
Children of the Setting Sun Productions
Native Seattle
Histories from the Crossing-Over Place (excerpt)
Coll Thrush
The River That Made Seattle
A Human and Natural History of the Duwamish (excerpt)
BJ Cummings
Seattle from the Margins
Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City (excerpt)
Megan Asaka
Seattle Walks
Discovering History and Nature in the City (excerpt)
David B. Williams
Stomp and Shout
R&B and the Origins of Northwest Rock and Roll (excerpt)
Peter Blecha