Culture
Two Northwest explorers helped us understand the Earth's poles
A pair of recent books shed light on the lives of James Cook and Charles Wilkes. Both helped unlock secrets of the world and its climate.
Knute Berger
Knute “Mossback” Berger is an editor-at-large and host of "Mossback’s Northwest" at Cascade PBS. He writes about politics and regional heritage.
Latest work
Politics
The enduring legacy of a small-time fascist from Puget Sound
Lois de Lafayette Washburn, an ultra-right-wing blogger from the 1930s, would salute the Capitol insurrectionists of today.
Opinion
The extraordinary Seattle legacy of the Cayton-Revels family
The cultural and political success of Horace Cayton Sr. and Susie Revels was eclipsed by bigotry and racism. They deserve recognition.
Inside Cascade PBS
Finding resilience in the Pacific Northwest’s historic hurdles
Why the latest Mossback’s Northwest special focused on the times Washington state has bounced back from adversity.
Opinion
The Whitman massacre and a reckoning with Northwest history
Cassandra Tate’s recent book on the storied white missionaries sheds light on a poorly understood chapter of our state’s settler past.