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Why I Wrote This Is Not For You: An Essay by Richard Brown

This is Not For You: An Activist’s Journey of Resistance and Resilience is the memoir of activist and photographer Richard Brown, an…

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On the Blog with Author Cate Doucette

Catherine Doucette is a backcountry skier, horseback rider, and mountaineer—roles that have resulted in adventures where she is often the only…

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Cris Harris reads I Have Not Loved You With My Whole Heart

Cris Harris reads an excerpt from his memoir. It is a memoir of trauma, healing, faith, and violence. At its center is the author’s father, the…

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Canyon, Mountain, Cloud: Absence and Longing in American Parks

What do we seek and what do we find when we visit parks and protected areas? What does it mean to become so deeply attached to a beautiful, wild…

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Building a Whale & a Story: An Interview with Peter Wayne Moe

Can we ever know whales? Or is the human relationship with whales essentially one of distance, of not knowing?

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The Last Layer of the Ocean: Kayaking through Love and Loss on Alaska's Wild Coast

A memoir of navigating both marriage and the stormy Alaskan sea. A woman learns to paddle a small boat and to find her voice in a stark and…

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Bearing Witness

Kathleen Dean Moore on a new strategy for reclaiming the future

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Home of the OSU Press Offices

OSU Press staff are all working remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We miss our offices at the Valley Library and look forward to returning…

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Storm Beat: A Journalist Reports From the Oregon Coast

Anyone who has spent time at the Oregon Coast knows there’s nothing like it. The Pacific Ocean can fill you with a sense of wonder and awe on the…

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Since 1961

OSU Press Celebrates 60 Years

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Antiracist Resources

Want to make a difference, but don't know where to start? Here are some anti-racist resources that center BIPOC voices

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This Is Not For You

This Is Not For You tells the story of activist and photographer Richard Brown, a Black Portlander who has spent decades working to bridge the...

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Black Woman in Green

From an unlikely beginning as an agency transcriptionist in her hometown of Washington, DC, Gloria Brown became the first African American woman to attain the...

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Remembering the Power of Words

Remembering the Power of Words recounts the personal and professional journey of Avel Gordly, the first African-American woman elected to the Oregon State Senate. The...

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Willamette River Greenways

The Willamette River Greenway Program, first proposed in 1966 by future Oregon governor Bob Straub, envisioned a nearly two-hundred-mile assemblage of public lands along the...

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