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 Paige Browning Play AudioListen 1 min
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.’ Kendra Hanna Play AudioListen 57 mins
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? Libby Denkmann Alec Cowan Play AudioListen 31 mins
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. Jason Burrows Libby Denkmann Play AudioListen 21 mins
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. Diana Opong Play AudioListen 1 min
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. Angela King Katie Campbell Play AudioListen 7 mins
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. Kevin Kniestedt Bill Radke Play AudioListen 51 mins
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. Tom Banse Play AudioListen 5 mins
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. Hans Anderson Libby Denkmann Noel Gasca Play AudioListen 16 mins
'Relevance beyond the personal,' Seattle author recounts sexism, discrimination in medical field As a young teenager, local author Patricia Grayhall recalls believing she was the only lesbian in Arizona. Her new memoir recounts her struggle to earn a medical degree, explore her sexuality, and weather the sexism and discrimination rampant in the medical field of the 1970s. Libby Denkmann Sarah Leibovitz Play AudioListen 23 mins
