VivaCity: Summer 2021 – A Seattle History & Preservation-Related Reading List
Last month, in celebration of summer, we asked you to share what Seattle history or preservation-related books you recommend, or have on your summer reading list. Here is a list of all of the excellent titles that were suggested. Happy reading!
Building Tradition: Pan-Asian Seattle and Life in the Residential Hotels by Marie Rose Wong
The Cayton Legacy – An African American Family by Richard S. Hobbs
Crossing Puget Sound: From Black Ball Steamer to Washington State Ferries by Steven J. Pickens
Distant Corner: Seattle Architects and the Legacy of H. H. Richardson by Jeffrey Karl Ochsner and Dennis Alan Andersen
Emerald Street – A History of Hip Hop in Seattle by Daudi J. Abe
The Forging of A Black Community Seattle’s Central District, From 1870 Through the Civil Rights Era by Quintard Taylor
The Gang of Four: Four Leaders. Four Communities. One Friendship by Bob Santos
Gay Seattle by Gary Atkins
Ghosts of Seattle Past – An Anthology curated by author/editor Jaimee Garbacik
The Good Rain by Timothy Egan
Hill with a Future – by Jacqueline B. Williams
High Voltage Women Breaking Barriers at Seattle City Light by Ellie Belew
I’m Down by Mishna Wolff
Jackson Street After Hours -The Roots of Jazz in Seattle by Paul De Barros
Lost Seattle by Rob Ketcherside
Madison House by Peter Donahue
My People Are Rising: Memoir of a Black Panther Party Captain by Aaron Dixon
My Unforgotten Seattle by Ron Chew
Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place by Coll Thrush
Nisei Daughter by Monica Stone
Olmsted in Seattle: Creating a Park System for a Modern City by Jennifer Ott
Overground Railroad: The Green Book and The Roots of Black Travel in America by Candacy Taylor
The River That Made Seattle A Human and Natural History of the Duwamish by BJ Cummings
Seattleness: A Cultural Atlas by Tera Hatfield, Jenny Kempson, and Natalie Ross
Seattle Prohibition: Bootleggers, Rumrunners and Graft in the Queen City by Brad Holden
Seattle’s Women Teachers of the Interwar Years: Shapers of a Livable City by Doris Hinson Pieroth
Shared Walls: Seattle Apartment Buildings 1900-1939 by Diana James
Skid Road – An Informal Portrait of Seattle by Murray Morgan
Sons of the Profits by William C. Speidel
Too High and Too Steep by David Williams
Tradition and Change on Seattle’s First Hill: Propriety, Profanity, Pills, and Preservation by Lawrence Kreisman
Women In Pacific Northwest History edited by Karen J. Blair
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