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The film and TV actor Bruce Campbell is too young to have lived in the Old West. But he did play a character or two from those horsey, halcyon days. So we…

The annual celebration started out in 1926 as Negro History Week and expanded to Black History Month in the 1970s. This year celebrates "African Americans and the Arts."

We talk about a fair amount of history, but it's SOULA that really makes "Underground History" possible. SOULA is the Southern Oregon University…

The generally-held theory about the British explorer Sir Francis Drake is that he put his leaky ship ashore for repairs in what is now Marin County,…

For NPR's Word of the Week, we're getting hot: During the Ottoman Empire, people used devices called "zarfs" to hold their coffee cups. Here's what to know about this word's history.

Swift became the first woman and third artist ever to have four of the Top 10 albums on Billboard's 200 chart. This latest milestone comes weeks after the release of Speak Now (Taylor's Version).

Our regular archaeology segment, Underground History, branches out a bit this month. Consider this the first edition of its alternate: Underwater History.…

It's not every day we get to witness archaeology in action. But Portland State University offers the Archaeology Roadshow, a one-day event with examples…

We have several big anniversaries this year: 350 years since the first Africans arrived in what became the United States. 50 years since humans arrived on…

Importing slaves from overseas had long been banned when the ship Clotilda sailed to Alabama in 1860. The ship was scuttled to hide the evidence, and…