Category: History

Seattle has a long, proud history of great radical newspapers. Jeff Stevens presents his version of the story of the birth of one of the greatest. Read all about it!

When grunge was just My Eye’s twinkle.

Anyone worried about recent leftist tendencies in Seattle city politics should study our city’s political history more closely. Let Jeff Stevens school you about the 1917 trial of Louise Olivereau.

Seattle has a long and proud tradition of activist occupations of local buildings for social justice purposes. Jeff Stevens schools you about the Colman School occupation.

Woodstock was not the first historic rock music festival: it was preceded by the Sky River Rock Festival, organized in Seattle and staged near Sultan, Washington. Jeff Stevens histories you counterculturally.

Seattle police misconduct is nothing new. Jeff Stevens tells the history of how a bogus SPD raid on the local Black Panther Party HQ instigated terrible consequences.

Leave It to Blethen

In the summer of 1963, Seattle was blazing with the fire of civil rights protest. Jeff Stevens schools you on that history.

Jeff Stevens histories you about one of Seattle’s all-time great countercultural gathering places.