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Born in Seattle’s Japantown, he rose from hardship to build aspirational icons like the Pacific Science Center and the World Trade Center.

A lost film from the ’50s details a beach hike devised by a U.S. Supreme Court Justice to save a pristine stretch of the Olympic Peninsula coast.

The frontiersman’s act, a blend of the sensational and the authentic, helped construct the myth of the West in the country’s collective imagination.

From Indigenous origin stories to restaurateur Ivar Haglund, the bivalves have become an edible emblem of Puget Sound beaches.

During WWII, a movie set designer helped camouflage the factory where B-17 Flying Fortresses were built. Did it work?

In 1910, twin tragedies eroded trust in the railway system and over a century later stand as the most fatal ever in Washington and British Columbia.

We love the outdoors for refuge and recreation, but the Pacific Northwest wilderness has its own forgotten history.

The death of the whale at a Miami amusement park just before her planned release highlighted the species’ fraught relationship with humans.

While Mount Mazama blew its top almost 8,000 years ago, it’s still remembered today by the descendants of its witnesses.

The Washington State Historical Society is digitizing 55,000 previously unseen images by the legendary Northwest photographer.