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Underground History — 71 episodes

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How Astoria shaped Oregon’s gothic icon, Vampira

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Beyond old headlines, Mail Tribune archives preserve a newsroom’s history

3

New archaeological research updates role of women in Oregon’s early timber industry

4

Digging into discoveries from Oregon field schools

5

Archaeologists and community historians on the trail of Chinese cowboys in Eastern Oregon

6

Chinese American doctor Ing Hay provided essential healthcare to Eastern Oregonians

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How archaeologists restored Zane Gray's century-old Rogue River cabin

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New archaeological research updates role of women in Oregon’s early timber industry

9

Oregon find may include world’s oldest sewn material, researchers say

10

The cost of the 'cozy pioneer': unmasking genocide in the Pacific Northwest

11

Archaeologists and community historians on the trail of Chinese cowboys in Eastern Oregon

12

How a short-lived California commune left behind a musical time capsule

13

The scars of colonialism in the archaeological record of the PNW

14

Tribal members and archaeologists support elk conservation in Oregon’s Great Basin

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A new book challenges the myths of the American West

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Oregon find may include world’s oldest sewn material, researchers say

17

New book explores Chinese American life during the Exclusion Era

18

The Siskiyou Line linked Ashland to northern California for 137 years

19

Legacy of 'The Oregon Trail' video game

20

Unwinding complex legends about a presumed massacre of Chinese immigrants in the Pacific Northwest

21

From Bigfoot to 'Rumpology' ... uncovering the truth of myths rooted in pseudoscience

22

Renowned cocktail historian chronicles 500 years of mixed drinks in a new comic book

23

Tribal members collaborate with archaeologists to support elk conservation in Oregon

24

How Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act protects our cultural heritage

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67 years later, one diver solves the mystery of a missing Portland family

26

Archivist publishes collection of recipes from beyond the grave

27

Decoding the summer archaeological field school

28

Archaeologists uncover a Native American mission school in Salem

29

How Anna May Wong defied stereotypes and blazed a trail for Asian-American women

30

Unwinding the fraught and complex narratives of the past

31

From Bigfoot to 'Rumpology' ... uncovering the truth of myths rooted in pseudoscience

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From Bigfoot to 'Rumpology' ... uncovering the truth of myths rooted in pseudoscience

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'Oregon Black Pioneers' reveal the history where Black Oregonians lived, worked and played

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A burned commune offers archaeologists a window into 1960s counterculture

35

The scars of colonialism in the archaeological record of the PNW

36

Archaeologists reunite wildfire survivors with deceased loved ones

37

Underground History digs into the Oregon version of The Gold Rush

38

Uncovering the Secrets of Ancient Egypt

39

Generational keepers of American history and culture

40

Chelsea Rose "Senses Sasquatch" at the High Desert Museum

41

Digging into the history of America's love of Halloween

42

Real Archeology launches truth bombs on landscape of false narratives

43

The Age of Melt (and Mummies)

44

Underground History in the field, er...on the water

45

An exploration of the bad ideas and horrible people in Oregon's history

46

Uncovering the Secrets of Ancient Egypt

47

A short history of really toxic stuff in some everyday items, like clothing

48

How the latest horror movies flip the scripts in favor of women

49

How our ancient ancestors' handling of climate change can inform us today

50

An archaeologist shares the wonders of our National Park System through LEGOs

51

A new way of thinking about museum pieces: decolonizing them

52

Digging into the remarkably deep history of plastic

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A short history of really toxic stuff in some everyday items, like clothing

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Who knows what lurks in the old bottles we dig up?

55

The religious history of why we eat what we eat

56

Beyond the vintage pictures: 'imaging' the Modoc War

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How the post office got so involved in a murder investigation in the Siskiyous

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Underground History focuses on The Tragedy at Tunnel 13 near Ashland

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Underground History focuses on The Tragedy at Tunnel 13 near Ashland

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Digging into the Oregon version of The Gold Rush

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Underground History: Chelsea Rose interviews Bill Lindsey, bottle expert

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Taking cooking advice from dead people, in an Underground History Exemplar

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Sitting down to dinner with Jacksonville's Peter Britt

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Music from the stones (not 'The Stones') in Underground History

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Underground History takes to the field at a Rogue Valley farm

66

Underground History looks under Beethoven's hair (and finds surprises)

67

Stint at Portland's Chinatown Museum the focus of Underground History

68

Want fries with that? Underground History explores potato innovation in Oregon

69

Oregon State Parks centennial observed in latest Underground History

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'I see dead people's recipes,' in the latest Underground History

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Underground History meets Oregon's first physical anthropologist