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A new oral history project documents the experiences of the queer community in the Walla Walla Valley over the last 50 years. It's called 'Sweeter Than the Onions: Stories of Queer Resilience in Walla Walla.'
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The Gulf of Tonkin incident led to direct U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. One of the reasons for that escalation, and one of the greatest controversies of the war, is currently docked in Bremerton.
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Cadaver dogs, ground-penetrating radar and high-tech computer mapping are all employed to help reveal suspected unmarked graves at Mool-Mool, or Fort Simcoe Historical State Park, on Yakama Nation lands.
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The link between R&B singer "Little Willie" John, who most famously was the first person to record the song "Fever," and the Pacific Northwest is a tragic one. But in his short life, he gave us songs that will outlive us all.
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The Buffalo Soldiers Museum in Tacoma's Hilltop neighborhood is one of only two such institutions in the country specifically dedicated to honoring Black service members.
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The federal government aims to document the experiences of Native Americans who endured forced attendance at government boarding schools
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Roger Silva was part of the crew that assembled the Tacoma Dome's wooden roof. Completed in April 1983, the iconic structure celebrates its 40th anniversary this month.
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"Seattle from the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City" explores Seattle's early economic history and the role that Asian immigrants and Indigenous workers played. KNKX's Emil Moffat spoke with author Megan Asaka.
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In August, the library invited the public to share their stories about the Salishan neighborhood in Tacoma. Salishan was one of the first intentionally integrated neighborhoods in the city and is one of the most diverse.
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One image of a Black laborer in a lumber yard from 1940. A group photo from a unity event between Japanese-American soldiers and white soldiers at Fort Lewis taken two months before the Pearl Harbor attacks. These are some of the images surfaced by a new digital archive project in Tacoma.