Tacoma Community History Project

Projects by Year

1991

• A Brief Study of Land Use by Indian and Pioneer Communities on the Key Peninsula (CHP 1991 #01)
• The Timber Challenge (CHP 1991 #02)
• Italians in Hilltop (CHP 1991 #03)
• Why Internment? The Story of Japanese-Americans During World War II (CHP 1991 #04)
• The Tacoma Rescue Mission: Hope for the Homeless (CHP 1991 #07)
• Oral history interview with Thomas Shoji Takemura (CHP 1991 #08)
• The Slavic Fishermen of the Puget Sound (CHP 1991 #09)
• The Changing Peoples of Hilltop (CHP 1991 #10)
• An Interview with Luke Joinette (CHP 1991 #12)

1992

• Hillside Community Church: A Path to Liberalism (CHP 1992 #01)
• The History of Council 28: The Washington Federation of State Employees (CHP 1992 #02)
• History of the Tacoma Smelter and Its Workers (CHP 1992 #04)
• Tacoma Judaism: One Hundred Years (CHP 1992 #05)
• The Tacoma Buddhist Temple - 1717 South Fawcett, Tacoma, WA: A Brief Historical Perspective (CHP 1992 #06)
• Tacoma Friends Meeting (CHP 1992 #07)
• St. Leo the Great Parish - Tacoma, Washington (CHP 1992 #08)
• From Tules to Tiaras: A History of the Masonic Temple Building and Temple Theatre (CHP 1992 #09)

1993

• Squaxin Island Lives (CHP 1993 #01)
• A Blue Collar Town: The Tacoma Labor Movement (CHP 1993 #02)
• Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Helen Cecile Beck Stafford (CHP 1993 #03)
• American Lake Veterans Affairs Medical Center (CHP 1993 #04)
• The History of the Kitsap County Young Women's Christian Association (CHP 1993 #05)
• The Community of Day Island (CHP 1993 #06)
• Tacoma's Nihon Go Gakko: Japanese Language School (CHP 1993 #08)
• Civil Rights and Civic Pride: The Story of Harold G. Moss and the City of Tacoma (CHP 1993 #09)

1994

• The Safe Streets Campaign: Tacoma and Pierce County Respond to Youth Violence (CHP 1994 #01)
• African American Life in Tacoma (CHP 1994 #03)
• Swiss Immigration (CHP 1994 #04)
• Winning the Hearts and Minds of Fort Lewis and McChord GIs During the Vietnam Era (CHP 1994 #05)
• A Concrete Look at Our Community (CHP 1994 #06)
• A Tradition of Excellence: The Sonntags and Public Service (CHP 1994 #08)
• An Honorable Man (CHP 1994 #10)

1995

• Senator Rosa D. Franklin: Small-Town Person, Big-City Activist (CHP 1995 #02)

1998

• Peter C. Stanup: A Leader Among the Generous People (CHP 1998 #03)
• The History of Murray and Rosa Morgan (CHP 1998 #04)

2007

• Mexican-Americans from Mexico to Washington State: Discrimination and Segregation in the Memory of One Witness (CHP 2007 #02)
• La-Sy-El: Daughter of Swinomish (CHP 2007 #03)
• The U.S. Navy During World War II: One Man's Experience (CHP 2007 #04)
• Activism is about taking Action (CHP 2007 #08)
• Discrimination is the Bosses Tool: Tacoma Longshore Unions and African Americans (CHP 2007 #09)

2008

• Lorraine Elizabeth Joseph: Puyallup Tribal Elder (CHP 2008 #01)

2009

• Dawn Lucien (CHP 2009 #02)
• Women and Tacoma's Civil Rights Movement: Mrs. Bil Moss (CHP 2009 #04)

2011

• Nurses Need to be Taken Care of, Too: Stories of Black Nurses in the Workplace (CHP 2011 #01)
• Patty Rose, Pierce County Central Labor Council (CHP #2011 02)
• Splendid Gestures: Gloria Stancich and the Gay/Lesbian Community in Tacoma (CHP 2011 #04)
• Guadalupe House (CHP 2011 #05)
• Serving on the USS Mason: Breaking Racial Barriers in the U.S. Navy (CHP 2011 #06)
• Carrie Little and the Tacoma Community Gardening Movement (CHP 2011 #07)

2014

• Mid-Knight Run: The Story of One Family's Journey to the Northwest from the Deep South (CHP 2014 #01)
• What We Built Came Out Of That Basement: Brian Skiffington on Hardcore Punk in Tacoma (CHP 2014 #02)
• Father Bill Bichsel and Disarm Now Plowshares (CHP 2014 #03)
• An Interview with Dr. Maxine Mimms Ph.D.: Building a Learning Comunity in Tacoma's Hilltop Neighborhood (CHP 2014 #04)
• James Walton: From Texas to Tacoma (CHP 2014 #05)
• Robert Elofson: The Lower Elwha Klallam and the Return of Their River (CHP 2014 #06)
• The Greek Community in Tacoma, Washington (CHP 2014 #07)

2015

• The Burley Community: Preserving the Past (CHP 2015 #01)
• The Puyallup Land Claims Settlement: A Lesson in Struggle (CHP 2015 #03)
• Alicia Pike, Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium, and Point Defiance AAZK: Wildlife Conservation in Tacoma (CHP 2015 #04)
• Morris McCollum: Tacoma's Hilltop Community Icon (CHP 2015 #05)
• Upholding the Hippocratic Oath: A Story of Medicine in Tacoma and its Fight Against AIDS (CHP 2015 #06)
• Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Nhung and Thanh Huynh's Oral History (CHP 2015 #07)
• Jack McQuade: Renewal of Historic Swiss Pub Coincides with Growth of the University of Washington Tacoma (CHP 2015 #08)
• South Tacoma Then and Now (CHP 2015 #09)