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A profession as dangerous as smokejumping--parachuting into remote areas to fight fires--is bound to suffer a few casualties. Malvin Brown was the first…

David Weigel is primarily a political reporter, but in The Show that Never Ends he spins his love of prog rock into a detailed, affectionate history of a genre that's never completely gone away.

Set during the early days of World War II, Darkest Hourchronicles the tense and tumultuous days following Winston Churchill's appointment as prime minister of England.

In 1903 Bill Warner became the first rural mail carrier for Medford, Ore. He used a bicycle in the summer or a horse-drawn, two-wheeled cart. When rain…

Blinded in the prime of life, George Spencer could no longer work as a logger or gold miner. In 1922, when paralysis of the optic nerve rendered him…

The arrival of the railroad to the remote Butte Valley of Siskiyou County, Calif., brought a burgeoning population with it. A box factory opened in 1911,…

Music can bind us together at a time in history when we can easily find reasons to disagree. Peace choirs sing to enhance the sense of shared humanity.…

In December 1917, a Grants Pass woman shattered a glass ceiling, but not in the political sense.A stenographer for a legal firm, Elsa Gebers, went into an…

Before the arrival in 1903 of the first automobile in Medford, Ore., pedestrians crossing the city’s dirt, and sometimes muddy, streets, had to dodge…

In the summer of 1878, the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey sent Benjamin Colonna to place precision instruments on the 14,179-foot summit of Northern…