Portland’s Lost Waterfront Reviewed by Willamette Week

“Barney Blalock, Portland’s Lost Waterfront: What do you do with a drunken sailor?” Of course you’ve heard the stories of victims disappearing in the night: drunken and drugged tourists shipped through Portland’s vast network of turn-of-the-century Shanghai tunnels and sent as sailor slaves on boats to China, never to be seen again. Families wept; children […]

Interview with Sherry Monahan, Author of California Vines, Wines & Pioneers

This spring, the History Press will toast to the deep roots of the West’s wine heritage with a new addition to the American Palate series. In this interview with History Press West, Sherry Monahan, author of the forthcoming book California Vines, Wines & Pioneers, shares insights about her writing process and California’s wine industry. HPW: […]

New from History Press Aviation: A History of Flight in Riverside

History Press announces The Aviation History of Greater Riverside by Marge Bitetti and Tony Bitetti–a new title in our growing collection of Riverside histories. Look for the book in stores this month! Ever since aircraft changed the scope of the First World War, flight became both a passion and business in Riverside. Early barnstormers needed […]

Napa’s Criminal Vintage

Cold cases, murder mysteries, and western justice. This summer, The History Press teams up with Todd L. Shulman, Napa Police Detective and founder of the Napa Police Historical Society, to provide a taste of Napa Valley’s criminal vintage in Murder & Mayhem in the Napa Valley. As foreword author John Boessenecker notes, although the “bucolic Napa […]

“Every weekend night became a spontaneous parade called the K Street cruise”

Throughout its tenure in the heart of the River City, K Street has boasted everything from the Grand Electric Carnival and Days of ’49 celebration to Christmas spectacles and the K Street cruise. As William Burg notes in his introduction, “This book stretches, like K Street, from the birth of Sacramento at the river’s edge […]