Spokane readers of this blog may have had the good fortune to visit Durkin's Liquor Bar , which opened up on Main Street last fall, appr...

Had I paid attention in Art History I could caption this. So this showed up in my feed a while back:  A Global Art Project Brings Painti...

A friend drew my attention to this folk song by the local group The Blue Ribbon Tea Company . Discursive in the way that folk songs ofte...

Local TV station KREM this morning ran a piece about the ghost signs (those old painted advertisements you see on the sides of brick buil...

Ari Kelman, the McCabe Greer Professor of History at Penn State University and winner of the 2014 Bancroft Prize in American History for his...

Image courtesy of  Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Cage 1771 As I was research...

Archivists and lovers of old maps, just sit back and enjoy!  This video fascinates me on a couple of levels. It is a great story, of an ...

Look what my friend and EWU colleague Laura Hodgman has created:  Spokane's Pride , a website dedicated to the oral histories of LGBT Sp...

So Wednesday morning I checked my email to find a message from Scott Shane, a reporter for the New York Times. Could I give him a call for a...

My friend Laurie Arnold is really tearing things up at Gonzaga, where she is Director of Native American Studies. She has organized two upco...

[Edit: After writing this post, I discovered another source, which throws a different light on the whole incident .] On the evening of Septe...

Behold, the least significant digital history project known to man--a map of the Kentuc Trail that I made last night: The Kentuc Trail...

Dear Tom Hanks: I see that  your are producing a miniseries about Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery . As a historian who spends a...

In January 1947 the War Assets Administration dumped a trainload of metallic sodium into Washington's Lake Lenore. This is why we can...