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Heather Cristenbury, executive director of the Coos History Museum, discusses the many artifacts and images that help preserve and tell the history of the southern Oregon coast.
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Courtesy of David WondrichFancy cocktails seem ubiquitous these days, with everyone trying to put their own spin–with what seems like as many ingredients as possible–into a chilled glass for a premium price. Much of this rise to fame and expansion of our boozy palate can be attributed to pioneering cocktail historian and enthusiast, David Wondrich.
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Frank S. Matsura focused his lens and his life on Native Americans. Now a book is being published about him by Washington State professor Michael Hollomon. -
Underground History digs deep into the colonial past of the Pacific Northwest. -
Corky Lee's Asian America: Fifty Years of Photographic Justice. Columbia University history professor Mae Ngai, is one of the book's editors. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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.
