Oregon State University Press
For fifty years, Oregon State University Press has been publishing exceptional books about the Pacific Northwest—its people and landscapes, its flora and fauna, its history and cultural heritage. The Press has played a vital role in the region’s literary life, providing readers with a better understanding of what it means to be an Oregonian. Today, Oregon State University Press publishes distinguished books in several academic areas from environmental history and natural resource management to indigenous studies.
Land Snails and Slugs of the Pacific Northwest
- Copyright year: 2013
Escaping into Nature
The Making of a Sportsman-Conservationist and Environmental Historian
- Copyright year: 2013
Ellie's Log
Exploring the Forest Where the Great Tree Fell
- Copyright year: 2013
Lincoln and Oregon Country Politics in the Civil War Era
- Copyright year: 2013
The Columbia River Treaty Revisited
Transboundary River Governance in the Face of Uncertainty
- Copyright year: 2012
Voyage of a Summer Sun
Canoeing the Columbia River
- Copyright year: 2012
The Indian School on Magnolia Avenue
Voices and Images from Sherman Institute
- Copyright year: 2012
Standing at the Water's Edge
Bob Straub's Battle for the Soul of Oregon
- Copyright year: 2012
Oregon Geology
- Copyright year: 2012
Aurora, Daughter of the Dawn
A Story of New Beginnings
- Copyright year: 2012
Multnomah
The Tumultuous Story of Oregon's Most Populous County
- Copyright year: 2012
Comrades of the Quest
An Oral History of Reed College
- Copyright year: 2012
Asserting Native Resilience
Pacific Rim Indigenous Nations Face the Climate Crisis
- Copyright year: 2012
To the Promised Land
A History of Government and Politics in Oregon
- Copyright year: 2012
Wild Delicate Seconds
29 Wildlife Encounters
- Copyright year: 2012
Wet Engine
Exploring the Mad Wild Miracle of the Heart
- Copyright year: 2012
Songs of Power and Prayer in the Columbia Plateau
The Jesuit, the Medicine Man, and the Indian Hymn Singer
- Copyright year: 2012
Public Lands, Public Debates
A Century of Controversy
Nineteen essays from an environmental historian that explore the U.S. system of public lands, the subject of historical struggle and contemporary debate.
- Copyright year: 2012
Oregon Plans
The Making of an Unquiet Land Use Revolution
- Copyright year: 2012
Finding the River
An Environmental History of the Elwha
- Copyright year: 2011
Artisan/Practitioners and the Rise of the New Sciences, 1400-1600
- Copyright year: 2011
Wild in the City
Exploring the Intertwine: The Portland-Vancouver Region's Network of Parks, Trails, and Natural Areas
- Copyright year: 2011
Wading for Bugs
Exploring Streams with the Experts
Field stories from aquatic biologists that reveal what it’s like to study stream insects and to make discoveries that could help stream health and conservation.
- Copyright year: 2011
Up the Capitol Steps
A Woman's March to the Governorship
- Copyright year: 2011
Light on the Devils
Coming of Age on the Klamath
- Copyright year: 2011
Life Histories of Cascadia Butterflies
The first book to present the life histories of the entire butterfly fauna of a North American geographic region.
- Copyright year: 2011
Toward One Oregon
Rural-Urban Interdependence and the Evolution of a State
Pathfinder
Blazing a New Wilderness Trail in Modern America
Pacific Northwest Trail founder Ron Strickland shares his stories about and from the trail.
Dragonflies and Damselflies of Oregon
A Field Guide
Thunder Tree
Lessons from an Urban Wildland
Remembering the Power of Words
The Life of an Oregon Activist, Legislator, and Community Leader
Discovering Main Street
Travel Adventures in Small Towns of the Northwest
A unique guidebook to exploring small towns, “the last frontier of American tourism."
No Small Potatoes
How a Family Potato Salad Recipe is Fast Becoming a Billion Dollar Business
Reflections of a Pragmatic Economist
My Intellectual Journey
To the Woods
Sinking Roots, Living Lightly, and Finding True Home
The true story of a couple who, in their late fifties, traded modern conveniences for life in a tent and trailer without electricity or indoor plumbing.
A River Without Banks
Place and Belonging in the Inland Northwest
The Lumberman's Frontier
Three Centuries of Land Use, Society, and Change in America's Forests
A Force for Change
Beatrice Morrow Cannady and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Oregon, 1912-1936
A Force for Change is the first full-length study of the life and work of one of Oregon’s most dynamic civil rights activists, African American journalist Beatrice Morrow Cannady. Between 1912 and 1936, Cannady tirelessly promoted interracial goodwill and fought segregation and discrimination.
She gave hundreds of lectures to high school and college students and shared her message with radio listeners across the Pacific Northwest. She was assistant editor, and later publisher, of The Advocate, Oregon’s largest African American newspaper. Cannady was the first black woman to graduate from law school in Oregon, and the first to run for state representative. She held interracial teas in her home in Northeast Portland and protested repeated showings of the racist film The Birth of a Nation. And when the Ku Klux Klan swept into Oregon, she urged the governor to act quickly to protect black Oregonians’ right to live and work without fear. Despite these accomplishments—and many more during her twenty-five-year career—Beatrice Cannady fell into obscurity when she left Oregon in about 1938.
A Force for Change illuminates Cannady’s important role in advocating for better race relations in Oregon in the early decades of the twentieth century. It describes her encounters with the period’s leading black artists, editors, politicians, and intellectuals, including W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, A. Philip Randolph, Oscar De Priest, Roland Hayes, and James Weldon Johnson. It dispels the myth that African Americans played little part in Oregon’s history and enriches our understanding of the black experience in Oregon.
A Force for Change is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of women’s history, gender studies, African American history, journalism history, and Pacific Northwest history. It belongs on the shelf of any reader interested in a richer understanding of the civil rights movement in Oregon and across the country.
Another Way the River Has
Taut True Tales from the Northwest
Cody’s prose rings with a sense of place. He is a native speaker who probes the streams and woods and salmon that run to the heart of what it means to live and love, to work and play, in Oregon.