Current Speakers
Harriet Baskas
What Is That?: Unusual and Offbeat People, Places, Things, and Events in Washington State
Darold Bigger
Religion and War: Post 9/11 Military Chaplains
David Bullock
A Strike at the Heart: Historical Memory and Roslyn’s Western Miners Union
Dennis Dauble
Cast your Lines: History of Fish in the Columbia River Basin
Richard Farr
How Heroes Rise and Fall ...And Rise Again: The Strange Case of Robert Falcon Scott
Jack Hamann
Speaking Truth to Power: Modern Lessons from a Historic Injustice at Seattle’s Fort Lawton
Michael Herschensohn
The Stories Old Buildings Tell Us
Joan Hockaday
Olmsted in the Pacific Northwest: Parks, Gardens, and Campus Designs
Rebecca Hom
Climbing Gold Mountain, Gum Sahn: Chinese Pioneers in the Western Frontier
Robert Horton
Alien Encounters: Sci-Fi Movies and the Cold War Culture of the 1950s
Wayne Horvitz
A Lumberjack's Prayer
Lynne Iglitzin
Trailblazing Photojournalist: Margaret Bourke-White
Donivan Johnson
Listen Up! What Is Modern Music?
Robert Keller
Reconciling the Past: The History, Literature, and Ethics of Japanese Removal
Jim Kershner
A Fighting Life: A Boxer-Turned-Lawyer Battles for Civil Rights
Patrick Lubinski
Washington Under Ice: Investigating the Wenas Creek Mammoth
Bruce & Susan Matley
Lasso Our Heritage: Cowboys and Cowgirls in Story and Song
Lorraine McConaghy
The Civil War in Washington Territory
Bernie Meyer
Bernie Meyer “The American Gandhi:” Bringing Nonviolence to the United States
Mary Michaelson
Finding Aunt Phoebe: My Search for the True Life of Phoebe Goodell Judson
Ben Mitchell
Ruben Trejo: A Chicano Artist and Activist of the Pacific Northwest
Sarah Murdoch
Architecture and Design in Rome: Exploring the Eternal City
Sid Peterson
Put This On The {Map}: LGBTQ Youth in Washington State
Judith Roche
The Poetics of Place--Expressing Your Sense of Place through Poetry (Workshop)
Amy Rubin
The Fascinating Rhythms of North and South America; Dancing to the Beat of a Different Drummer: Reflections of a Researcher in West Africa
Karen Scott
Freedom From Religion or Freedom For Religion? The differing views of Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison
Alan Stein
Fair and Fair Alike: The 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition and the 1962 Century 21 Exposition
Anu Taranath
Global Literature: How Learning About “Over There” Helps Us Understand “Over Here”
William Woodward
Program 1: Those Mysterious Seacoast Forts: Doing Homeland Defense the Old-Fashioned Way Program 2: River, Rail and Road: How We Got Here - and Why
Alvin Ziontz
American Indians: Rebuilding the Indian Nations





