History

Lawyer-turned journalist John Bainbridge, Jr. examines that cementing process--fact and myth--in his book "Gun Barons: The Weapons That Transformed America and the Men Who Invented Them."

The historic Malmgren Garage in downtown Talent has received a state grant to help with reconstruction after the 2020 wildfire.

Signs of long-ago human habitation have been found in both Oregon and New Mexico, and New Mexico currently holds an edge: footprints that may date back to the last ice age.

Mark Oliver has been researching and publicizing his findings on how Black men did some of the hard work of digging fduring the gold rush; now he's out with a book, "Voices of the Golden Ghosts – African Americans in the California Gold Rush."

The populist energy within the Republican Party goes by the name the former president gave it: MAGA. And its influence on the 2022 midterms seems destined to track that of the Tea Party surge in 2010.

John Mauceri, conductor and musical scholar, on his book The War on Music: Reclaiming the Twentieth Century.

New federal report recounts use of Indian boarding schools to subjugate Native communities and culture, including at an Oregon school.

Journalist digs deep into the story of peanuts grown under French colonialism in West Africa, and how much of the crop was handled by enslaved people.

Book by Phil Keith and Tom Clavin, To the Uttermost Ends of the Earth: The Epic Hunt for the South's Most Feared Ship—and the Greatest Sea Battle of the Civil War.

The mud- and rust-encrusted guns were discovered by accident as the Georgia riverbed was being dredged. Researchers suspect they came from British ships scuttled to the river bottom in 1779.

Researchers in the Maryland Department of Transportation believe they have found the site where Tubman's birth family once lived. This is the subject matter for this month's edition of Underground History.

Tell el-Farma, also known by its ancient name Pelusium, dates back thousands of years to the late Pharaonic period and was also used during Greco-Roman and Byzantine times.