Pacific Northwest Quarterly (commonly referred to as PNQ) is a peer-reviewed academic journal

Academic journal

An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...

 of history that publishes scholarship relating to the Pacific Northwest

Pacific Northwest

The Pacific Northwest is a region in northwestern North America, bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west and, loosely, by the Rocky Mountains on the east. Definitions of the region vary and there is no commonly agreed upon boundary, even among Pacific Northwesterners. A common concept of the...

 of the United States, including Alaska

Alaska

Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...

, and adjacent areas of western Canada. Founded in 1906 by Edmond S. Meany

Edmond S. Meany

Edmond S. Meany was a professor of botany and history at the University of Washington and a UW alumnus, having graduated as the valedictorian of his class in 1885...

 as the Washington Historical Quarterly, the journal is published by the University of Washington

University of Washington

University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...

. Editorial offices are located in the UW Department of History. By tradition, the managing editor is a professor in the department. The current managing editor is John M. Findlay. The journal's book review editor is Michael Allen

Michael Allen (historian)

Michael Allen is an American historian. He is a professor of history and American studies at the University of Washington Tacoma, book-review editor for Pacific Northwest Quarterly and president of the Ellensburg Rodeo Hall of Fame. He served in the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War...

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Editors of the Quarterly

• Edmond S. Meany
  Edmond S. Meany
  Edmond S. Meany was a professor of botany and history at the University of Washington and a UW alumnus, having graduated as the valedictorian of his class in 1885...
  
    1906-1935
• Merrill Jensen  1936-1942
• Charles M. Gates  1943-1963
• Robert E. Burke  1963-1986
• Lewis O. Saum  1986-1991
• John M. Findlay  1991-2003, 2008-present
• W.J. Rorabaugh 2003-2008