We are pleased to include below the first post in an ongoing occasional series titled "From the Archives." Our first contribution...

Western Washington University’s Center for Pacific Northwest Studies welcomes applications for the James W. Scott Regional Research Fello...

The Charles Redd Center for Western Studies offers a number of awards, fellowships, and grant opportunities for folks doing research...

by Shari Rabin Over the last few years the Bancroft Library at the University of California at Berkeley has acquired the Magnes Collecti...

For those of you doing field research or archival research on (American) Western topic that requires travel and find yourself in needs ...

By Stan Thayne There are a number of online resources available to students and researchers interested in the study of the American West....

We recently received the announcement below. You may be interested. (Quincy says to tell you that what got her hooked on doing history was h...

by Dusty Hoesly When scholars write about religion in the Pacific Northwest, they often claim that its defining feature is a lack of relig...

The following announcement recently came across our desk here at the virtual offices of the RAW blog, and we thought you might be interested...

(I guess that should be "Workshops and Awards In Which You Might Be Interested," but our title is shorter.) Welcome to March! A co...

by Joshua Paddison With the proliferation of digital collections and archived newspapers in recent years, it can be difficult to keep track...

by James Bennett My summer consists mostly of being a stay-at-home dad this year. It is unquestionably time well spent, but that doesn’t m...