Comics Offer Radical Opportunity to Blend Scholarship and Art
In the search for better representation in world histories, historians are discovering the power of comics. Trevor R. Getz writes.
How Do We Know Which Historical Accounts Are True?
Why is Hebraic oral history viewed as more trustworthy than Native American oral history? Stephen Nash considers.
Seattle 2019: The Nineties on Steroids
Whither Seattle’s erstwhile progressive credibility? Jeff Stevens opines.
A Book Review of A People’s History of The United States
Megan Wildhood takes Howard Zinn on the bus for her latest literary review.
Kit Bakke, Protest on Trial
Jeff Stevens reviews the brand-new and long-overdue book about the controversial 1970 Seattle Seven conspiracy trial.
April 1, 1978: Rosco Louie Gallery
Seattle in the late 1970s was a place and time of great countercultural promise when Rosco Louie brought the shock. Jeff Stevens histories your macramé stridently.
April 1, 1967: Seattle’s First Be-In
When Tom Robbins declared Shazam!
June 1, 1981: Domingo and Viernes
Seattle’s long history of labor strife has occasionally turned tragic. Jeff Stevens tells the story of the 1981 assassination of Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes here at the Star.
May 4, 1969: Hit the Highway, Freeway
On this date in 1969, one of Seattle’s most successful citizen activist campaigns gathered crucial force in the Washington Park Arboretum. Jeff Stevens remembers avidly.
April 21, 1974: and/or
Once upon an artistic time, Seattle’s and/or gallery catalyzed our city’s creative community. Jeff Stevens histories you freshly with his erstwhile song.

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