{"id":16618,"date":"2024-02-16T13:05:25","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T21:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librarywp.whatcom.edu\/guides\/?p=16618"},"modified":"2025-07-22T12:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T19:59:07","slug":"history-washington-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librarywp.whatcom.edu\/guides\/history-washington-state\/","title":{"rendered":"History &#8211; Washington State"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finding historical research sources for local history can sometimes be particularly difficult. This guide is an attempt at highlighting some of those resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Background Research<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:15% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"484\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/librarywp.whatcom.edu\/guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/484px-Seal_of_Washington.svg_.png\" alt=\"Washington State seal - G. Washington's face surrounded by a yellow circular border.\" class=\"wp-image-15895 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/librarywp.whatcom.edu\/guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/484px-Seal_of_Washington.svg_.png 484w, https:\/\/librarywp.whatcom.edu\/guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/484px-Seal_of_Washington.svg_-300x298.png 300w, https:\/\/librarywp.whatcom.edu\/guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/484px-Seal_of_Washington.svg_-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.historylink.org\/\">Encyclopedia of Washington State History<\/a>\u00a0Full Text. HistoryLink.org. Over 8000 essays touching on all aspects of the State\u2019s history. Most essays include images; some have audio and video exhibits.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Primary Sources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/washingtondigitalnewspapers.org\/\">Washington Digital Newspapers<\/a>&nbsp;Full Text. Scans of early newspapers printed in Washington State. From the Washington State Library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonruralheritage.org\/digital\/\">Washington Rural Heritage <\/a> Digitized primary sources documenting the early culture, industry, and community life of Washington State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.primarilywashington.org\/\">Primarily Washington<\/a>. Washington&#8217;s gateway to Pacific Northwest primary source materials<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding historical research sources for local history can sometimes be particularly difficult. This guide is an attempt at highlighting some of those resources. Background Research Encyclopedia of Washington State History\u00a0Full Text. HistoryLink.org. Over 8000 essays touching on all aspects of the State\u2019s history. Most essays include images; some have audio and video exhibits. Primary Sources [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":15895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[348],"tags":[209,364],"class_list":["post-16618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-guides","tag-history","tag-wa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/librarywp.whatcom.edu\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/librarywp.whatcom.edu\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/librarywp.whatcom.edu\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librarywp.whatcom.edu\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librarywp.whatcom.edu\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16618"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/librarywp.whatcom.edu\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18848,"href":"https:\/\/librarywp.whatcom.edu\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16618\/revisions\/18848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librarywp.whatcom.edu\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/librarywp.whatcom.edu\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librarywp.whatcom.edu\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librarywp.whatcom.edu\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}