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Rebel flags once flew over Fifth Avenue — and it wasn't just about the 'Gone With the Wind' premiere.

Decades after the Civil War, nostalgia for the 'Lost Cause' took hold in the Northwest. Knute Berger explains how.

Washington is still impacted by the 1933 decision, which brought the West from the frontier period into a new, modern century.

From cheap power to rugged hiking trails, Franklin D. Roosevelt's government transformed the region.

From waning interest in pandemic precautions to fights over free speech, there are lessons for the new year in our region’s past.

You can complain about the rain, the damp, the squish, but water shapes PNW history and culture — and it makes for some good stories, too.

Before there was Ernestine Anderson, Ray Charles and Quincy Jones, there was Frank Waldron.

Remembering trumpeter, teacher and composer Frank Waldron, a trailblazer in the 1920s Jackson Street music scene.

The Canadian artist created landscapes unlike her contemporaries’, intuiting the web of life beneath the canopy and putting it on canvas.

Meet the painter from British Columbia who evoked the 'liveness' of the Pacific Northwest's forests.