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When Russia was still the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, summits with its leaders were largely about fears of a thermonuclear duel and mass annihilation. Here's a look back at the highlights.

House Bill 2168 will officially recognize Juneteenth as a state holiday in Oregon beginning June 19, 2022.

Les AuCoin spent 18 years representing Northwest Oregon in the U.S. House, at a time when issues like the spotted owl and forest management were looming…

Norma Paulus left the planet in 2019. She was Oregon's first woman secretary of state, first woman major party candidate for governor, and later…

Welcome to 2020! New Year's Day gives us a chance to look both forward and backward at once. We revisit some Exchange segments from the past. At 8: Vivek…

Europeans had traded with parts of Africa for centuries, rarely getting beyond the coastal regions. That changed in the 1870s, when the search for riches…

Theresa Howell is a children's book author, with several titles already in print. Her mother-in-law, Janet Howell, is a state senator in Virginia, and…

The official histories of places on the map can be a bit on the plain-vanilla side, featuring the dates and the places and the people and how they…

Eugene Bullard sounds like a character from a movie, and not a totally plausible one, at that. His careers and skills included boxing, spying, and flying…

Emily Dickinson is revered for her poetry, yet still something of an enigma. No one is quite sure why she was so reclusive later in life, spending nearly…

Nationalism is taking on some dark overtones in our time, all over the world. Historian and National Review senior editor Richard Brookhiser takes the…

Historical markers dot the landscape of the United States. At best, they can give only about a paragraph of information about significant events at their…