Maps: The Pacific Northwest -- Language families of the Coast and Plateau Tribes of Washington -- Routes along the Oregon Trail -- State of Washington -- Major resources and industries Preface -- ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On May 14, the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma announced that service members and their families will have free ...

If you love historical clothing, get yourself down to the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma, where the exhibit “Dressing the Gilded Age: Fashion from the 1870s to the 1910s” has recently ...

A new permanent exhibit honoring Native American history debuted in the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma on Sunday. The exhibit, “This is Native Land,” is in the museum’s Great Hall of ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — A proposal in the Washington state Legislature aims to broaden how public schools teach U.S. and state history by formally including the experiences of multiple historically ...

TACOMA, Wash. — Since its formation by Ice Age megafloods 14,000 years ago, the Columbia River has been a source of life, food, hydropower and so much more. "It's a big river with a big history," said ...

The Washington State History Museum in Tacoma is opening a new exhibit on Saturday to showcase Vietnam War veterans’ personal keepsakes, commemorating half a century since the war’s end. Titled “The ...

This story first appeared in High Country News (hcn.org), and is reprinted with permission. Yakama bands once gathered at Mool Mool springs in what is now Washington state to use the area’s bubbling ...