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In 1920, the city’s commissioner of public health called Seattle “a hot bed for anti-vaccination, Christian Science, and various anti-medical cults.”

Lessons on catastrophe from new books about the atomic bomb and the eruption of Mount St. Helens.

Escaping a racist Oregon law, a man named George Bush became one of Washington’s most important homesteaders.

Here and beyond, reports of deaths by suicide indicate the mental health toll likely caused by the influenza pandemic.

How a race between rival crews brought Native and UW paddlers closer to the sport — and each other.

Transplants vs. locals is the cultural permafrost always under Seattle's feet.

Post-war growth in 1920 Seattle came with a coldness toward newcomers. Some city boosters suggested a "thaw" was in order.

Sir Thomas Beecham came to conduct the Seattle Symphony and uttered a sentence that has never been forgotten.

A rare photograph shows President Kennedy's 1961 detour under an unfinished Space Needle.

Dr. T.D. Tuttle was Washington's Health Commissioner during the 1918 flu. He wasn't always popular — even when he was right.