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Underground History digs deep into the colonial past of the Pacific Northwest.
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Corky Lee's Asian America: Fifty Years of Photographic Justice. Columbia University history professor Mae Ngai, is one of the book's editors.
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The Alta Heritage Foundation sends trained dogs and archaeologists to homes burnt by wildfires to recover cremains left inside. There is never a cost to the families.
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Since the 1970s, billions of dollars in federal contracts have gone to forestry work like replanting trees or fuels reduction. Oregon has long been a center for businesses getting those contracts. But that industry looked a lot different 50 years ago.
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America's favorite tuber has a long history in our region, including the 1950s invention of the tater tot in Oregon.
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Underground History recently participated in an international effort to promote “RealArchaeology.” This coordinated media blitz was done in response to the rise of pseudoarchaeology and scientific conspiracy theories, as well as to amplify resources where real archaeological content was being produced and shared, and to both pre- and de-bunk false stories and theories that are circulating. Archaeologists certainly aren’t the only ones on the firing lines in what is becoming an increasingly post-truth era, but there are real concerns, and consequences, when false historical narratives gain traction.
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Science journalist John Farrell provides a list of tech gifts from medieval times in his book, The Clock and the Camshaft: And Other Medieval Inventions We Still Can't Live Without.
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Anthropologists are reconsidering possessing artifacts that belong to surviving cultures.
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Michael Hoffen is a high school student who transcribed a 400 year old book from hieroglyphics: Be a Scribe!: Working for a Better Life in Ancient Egypt.
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Chelsea Rose talks with renowned Egyptologist Arto Belekdanian
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The museum in Bend, OR is updating its outdated exhibit of Oregon's original peoples.
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This year's powwow of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians came just two weeks after a federal court lifted decades-old restrictions on the tribe’s rights to hunt, fish and gather.
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Historian and archivist Jan Wright about her book on John Beeson, Oregon Outcast.
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Indigenous natives know the generational history and culture of this land.