Subject Expert
Ielleen Miller
she/her
Contact:
Office: JFK Library, U02C
Email: imiller@ewu.edu
Text or phone: 509.818.0559
Meet with Me (Office Hours):Wednesdays & Thursdays 3-5pm or by appointment, in person or via zoom.
Use the Schedule Research Consultation button above, for Mon-Fri 9-6pm. If you need to meet during the evening or weekend, please email me.
Primary Sources - News Articles
Researching More Current Issues/Events
- Google NewsUse Google to sift through online news articles, including local tv news, though it will provide links to websites that want you to register or subscribe.
- Spokesman Review (ProQuest) 1994-presentKeyword search or browse by date.
- Pacific Northwest InlanderFree weekly newspaper for the Inland Northwest
- Black Lens 2015-January 2022Back issues of this "independent community publication, based in Spokane, Washington, that is focused on the news, events, people, issues, and information of importance to the African American community."
Since there's no built-in search engine, use this Google Advanced Search. Just erase EWU and put in your own search terms. - African American VoiceThe African American Voice was a Black-run newspaper covering news in Spokane and Pullman from 1996-2000.
Researching Historical Issues/Events
- Washington Digital Newspapers"Over 400,000 pages from our earliest online Washington Territorial newspaper collection with titles digitized by the Washington State Library."
Can keyword search, though the scanning is far from perfect and they're hoping that users will help with the errors, or browse by newspaper. - Chronicling AmericaSearchable database of American newspapers from 1777-1963. The Washington Digital Newspaper content can be found here, bit of a different interface.
- Google News ArchiveMix of historical newspapers Google scanned with other scanning projects. Most are free. Includes several historical newspapers from the region, including various versions of the Spokesman-Review/Chronicle.
Can keyword search, just click the Search Archive button, or browse a particular newspaper by date. - Ice Age Floods Institute Records, SPC 013-0708The Ice Age Floods Institute promoted education about the Ice Age floods that shaped the Pacific Northwest. These records include field guides, which identify landforms resulting from the floods and records about the organizations efforts for recognition of an Ice Age Floods Historic Trail.
- Otis Freeman Papers, SPC 988-0293Dr. Otis Freeman taught geography and geology at Eastern from 1924-1951 His papers include several photographs of geological formations in the region. Many of his photographs of the Channeled Scablands may be found online at: https://dc.ewu.edu/freeman.
- The Fair and the Falls: Spokane’s Expo ’74: Transforming an American Environment, by J. William T. Youngs, T902 1974. B1 Y68 1996While Dr. Youngs’ book focuses on Expo ’74, it provides a historical background detailing the relationship between the city of Spokane and the Spokane River. Youngs’ citations may be useful in locating primary sources.
- Spokane’s Building Blocks, Robert B. Hyslop, F899.S7 H93Spokane’s Building Blocks provides a brief history of downtown blocks and buildings from the late-1800s to the early-1980s when the book was published.
Historical Photographs
- Northwest Digital HeritageSearches digital collections across various Northwest institutions.
- EWU Digital Commons - Regional History CollectionKeyword search across the regional history collections that have been digitized
- Spokane Public Library's Northwest Room Digital CollectionsBrowse their 37 collections
- MAC's Digital Photograph CollectionNot searchable, but they have 11 collections you can browse. (And they need to update their URL security.)
- EWU Library Catalog's Records for Spokane Pictorial Works or Illustrated WorksThe LC Subject Heading for books, etc. with lots of pictures is "pictorial works" or "illustrated works." The older and more obscure titles are only in Archives.
- Artstor This link opens in a new windowImages of art, architecture, photographs and videos from art museums from around the world. Keyword search or browse by collection, type, or geography. Create an individual account to download the images. Downloaded images can be used in the classroom and non-commercial educational use.
Books & Articles
- EWU Library Catalog This link opens in a new window
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Records for books, videos, journals, but also articles. Never know what you'll find... The default for articles is only to display ones we have full text. To expand out, click the Include results with no full text on the upper left.
Browse Spokane History Books
You'll find the Spokane history books on the Upper Level F897 .S7, and/or in Special Collections on the Lower Level (the more rare, smaller press titles are usually only here).
The books on the Spokane Indians are E99 .S68
Talk to Our University Archivist
Our resident expert on local history is Steven Bingo, University Archivist.
Contact information:
Email: sbingo@ewu.edu
Phone: 509.359.2302
