History

Arts & Life

The untold history of migrant labor in the Pacific Northwest

Author and historian Megan Asaka tells the story of Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, and indigenous laborers in her book Seattle from the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City.

Science

Archaeologists on surprising trail of Japanese families who lived in vanished Oregon lumber company town

The classic black-and-white photos from early decades of the American West often fail to capture the diversity of the people who came here. Chinese migrants helped build the railroads and were big in gold mining. Basque people from Spain became known for sheep herding. The first Filipino cannery workers arrived around the turn of the last century. Now, Oregon archaeologists are on the surprising trail of Japanese families who lived in a now-vanished lumber company town.

Week in Review: Carmen Best, student mental health, and a giant crane

Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with Crosscut’s Mai Hoang, South Seattle Emerald’s Mike Davis, and Kitsap Sun’s Josh Farley.

Washington Indigenous families still living with the 'very deliberate effort to wipe us out'

The U.S. Interior Department has set out to document abusive boarding schools that once targeted Indigenous tribes, their cultures and their children. A first-of-its-kind report from the agency's Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative puts the extent of that abuse in black and white.

Race & Identity

National Park grants honor sites significant to Chinese Americans and Black communities in Washington

The National Park Service has awarded two grants totaling $100,000 to identify and preserve locations of historic significance for the Chinese American and Black communities in Washington state.

Arts & Life

It's the end of an era as Hale's Ales pulls their final pint

Hale's Ales founder Mike Hale sits down with Soundside host Libby Denkmann to talk the history of Hale's and why they're pulling the plug now.

Arts & Life

The Goodwill Games sought to pull politics from sports. So why did they end?

If you were around Seattle in 1990 — or watching Turner Broadcasting channels anywhere in America — you may remember the "Goodwill Games." The games faded out by 2001. What happened?

Arts & Life

Telling modern world history with Africa at the center

'This, I argue, is the beginning of the Age of Exploration, the Age of Discovery, and thereby, the start of the modern world.’

Government

Seattle will return 270 artifacts to Upper Skagit Tribe

The Upper Skagit Tribe will soon reclaim hundreds of historic artifacts from the city of Seattle

A Country Strange and Far: why Methodists failed to convert the Pacific Northwest

Washington State has one of the lowest rates of self-reported religious affiliation in the country, according to the polling firm Gallup. The experiences of one group of Christian missionaries can give us a window into why our area has remained relatively secular.