Bonsai tree exhibit offers novel take on 75th anniversary of end of World War II One of the more unusual ways the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II is being marked this summer is with an exhibit of stunted trees. They’re bonsai trees on display at the Pacific Bonsai Museum in Federal Way, Washington.
KUOW Newsroom A conversation with one of the last survivors of the 6888th -- the only Black women's unit to serve overseas in WW2 KUOW's Angela King talks with one of the last surviving members of a little-known but important WWII Army unit -- the all-Black women's 6888th, commonly called the Six Triple Eight.
Two 100-year-old World War II vets, separated by an ocean, lap expectations A World War II army veteran in Great Britain achieved world renown earlier this year with a charity walk to raise money for British health care workers on the front lines of the pandemic. The achievement went viral -- in a good way -- and inspired another pandemic feat by a 100-year-old U.S. Army veteran across the ocean in Portland, Oregon.
KUOW Newsroom These Black women got the mail delivered in Europe in WWII. A push is on to honor the 6888th World War Two ended Sept. 2, 1945. And 75 years later, advocates for one special unit are still fighting to get recognition the Black women soldiers who made sure the mail got delivered in Europe.
KUOW Newsroom Matriarch of Northwest apple industry passes away at age 194. Not a misprint It's not often that you'll read an obituary for a tree. Or that a dead tree gets a memorial service of sorts. But then there aren't many like Vancouver, Washington's "Old Apple Tree."
All Things Considered In Alabama, A City Debates How To Depict Its Past In The Present When the city of Mobile, Ala., took down a statue of a Confederate naval officer it sparked a conversation about what the statue meant, and how the city's Confederate history should be portrayed.
Seattle Now Seattle Now: The forgotten pandemic Between the protests and social media black outs this week, it’s easy to forget there’s a pandemic going on. A hundred years ago, the U.S. lived through another pandemic — one that was also, in large part, forgotten.
How A Graphic Novel Resurrected A Forgotten Chapter In American History In Ghost River: The Fall and Rise of the Conestoga, Native artists retell the events of a brutal massacre in pre-Revolutionary Pennsylvania and bring a painful history to life on the page.
They had a beachcombing blast on the coast after old munitions washed ashore Beachcombing was a blast for soldiers from Joint Base Lewis-McChord earlier this week. An ordnance disposal unit was called out after unexploded military munitions washed up on the beach north of Ocean Shores, Washington.
KUOW Newsroom First 'panic,' then a battle to keep the National Archives in Seattle Lovers of history are scrambling to save a beloved local institution. Last month, the National Archives and Records Administration abruptly announced it would close its Seattle facility.
