History

Bill Meulemans book Dynamiting the Siskiyou Pass: And Other Short Stories from Oregon and Beyond.

October 11, 2023 marks the 100th anniversary of one of the most infamous crimes in Southern Oregon. This tale has train robbers, rumors of gold, dynamite, and all the intrigue of an old timey wild west crime overlaid on the backdrop of a rapidly modernizing world. Four innocent men brutally lost their lives on that day, and the ensuing manhunt captured the attention of the nation.

The Generations Project works to get people from the LGBTQ+ community to tell their stories, both to preserve history and to promote understanding.

Students today have no memory of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, so this year's anniversary poses unique challenges for educators and caregivers trying to explain what happened and why.

The arrow was found at a site on Mount Lauvhøe that was previously covered in ice. The new discovery adds new "time depth" to the research site.

The multistory, below-ground structures in Diyarbakir — ID'ed by using ground-penetrating radar — may have sheltered some 10,000 people during wartime many centuries ago, archaeologists believe.

Carolyn Kingsnorth is the President of Historic Jacksonville, and our guide to the history and the telling of it in town.

Decades after the 1963 March on Washington, thousands again gathered in the nation's capital to declare that Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy was in jeopardy amid fresh civil rights struggles.

Ahmed White tells in his book Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers.

Chelsea Rose interviews Bill, a.k.a. the "Bottle Guy." He is a retired Rangeland Management Specialist with the Oregon BLM and is the primary author of the Historic Glass Bottle Identification & Information Website.

Rosie Grant dug into the culinary prowess of dead people, but without any actual physical digging. It turns out some people have favorite recipes inscribed on their gravestones when they die. SOU archeologist Chelsea Rose interviews her.

How far could a president go to stay in office if convinced his reelection was crucial to the nation? What liability would he face? And how much stress can the fragile structure of democracy stand?