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Sitka trees were key military materiel in both World Wars. Knute Berger shares how the need for wood and the women who harvested it changed logging.

Minoru Yamasaki was among the most influential architects of the 20th century. Knute Berger tells the story.

Environmental activist Polly Dyer teamed up with Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas in the 1950s to keep a stretch of Washington wild.

Audiences loved the show, but what he sold as “authentic” was anything but. Knute Berger shares how the myth shaped our idea of the frontier.

Folk songs, clam bakes, aquaculture and more: Knute Berger explores the myriad ways clams have shaped our region’s culture.

The company's Plant 2 was so crucial that the military asked Hollywood to hide it from the enemy. Knute Berger shares the story.

Back-to-back disasters in Washington and B.C. killed more than 150 people in 1910. Knute Berger digs into the traumatic circumstances and their fallout.

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

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

He was invited to talk about his storied past, but the Nez Perce chief had his eye on his people's future.