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Dr. Susan Armitage, Washington State University, Pullman

WHC Advisory Board Member

Dr. Susan Armitage

Washington State University, Pullman

Sue Armitage is Professor of History and Women's Studies, Emerita, at Washington State University. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of London (London School of Economics and Political Science). An authority on women in the U.S. West, her publications include numerous articles on western women's history and women's oral history.

Publications

  • co-editor of The Women's West (1987)
  • co-editor of So Much to Be Done: Women Settlers on the Mining and Ranching Frontier (1990)
  • co-editor of Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women's West (1998)
  • She also is a co-author of the U.S. history textbook Out of Many (Prentice Hall) now in its fifth edition.
  • Co-Editor with Laurie Mercier of Speaking History: Oral Histories of the American Past 1865-Present (2009)
  • From 1995 to 2003, she edited Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies.
  • Currently she is finishing a history of the women in the Pacific Northwest to be published by the University of Washington Press.
Seattle General Hospital Nursery.

Three suffragists post signs advocating women's suffrage on the side of a low wood structure in Seattle. Asahel Curtis took this photogrpah for the Washington Equal Suffrage Association.

Ten raspberry pickers, all women, stand in a row at the edge of a raspberry field in Western Washington.

Three American Red Cross women wearing heavy coats and Red Cross caps, offer bottles of milk and doughnuts from baskets to rows of African American soldiers returning to Fort Lewis at the close of World War II. Photo by Turner Richards, Tacoma, WA.