Sitka trees were key materiel in both world wars. Knute Berger shares how the need for wood and the women who harvested it changed logging.

Minoru Yamasaki was among the most influential architects of the 20th century. Knute Berger tells the story.

Environmental activist Polly Dyer teamed up with Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas in the 1950s to keep a stretch of Washington wild.

Audiences loved the show, but what he sold as “authentic” was anything but. Knute Berger shares how the myth shaped our idea of the frontier.

Folk songs, clam bakes, aquaculture and more: Knute Berger explores the myriad ways clams have shaped our region’s culture.

The company’s Plant 2 was so crucial that the military asked Hollywood to hide it from the enemy. Knute Berger shares the story.

Back-to-back disasters in Washington and B.C. killed more than 150 people in 1910. Knute Berger digs into the traumatic circumstances and their fallout.

Crater Lake wasn’t always a lake. Knute Berger tells of when a blast 50 times the size of Mount St. Helens’ blanketed the PNW in ash. 

Asahel Curtis shot thousands of images in the early 20th century. Knute Berger talks about the effort to share them with the public for the first time.

In the early 20th century, Catherine Montgomery spearheaded a movement to preserve old growth in Washington forests. Knute Berger shares her story.

In 1915, Germany wanted to keep the United States from joining World War I. Knute Berger explains how the fight came to the Northwest.

Still encountering racism in the ‘free’ states of the West, some Black communities sought the American Dream in Canada.

P-Patches launched a modern agricultural movement in the 1970s, sprouting from a small family farm in Wedgwood.

The North Cascades’ bear population thrived in the 19th century, but now almost none are left. Advocates are working to bring them back.

In 1924, four airplanes took off from what’s now Magnuson Park. Six months and more than 26,000 miles later, half the fleet made it back.