Over the years, the city of Portland has had its share of controversy and drama in the Mayors office. ...

Sometime in April of 1960, a shy, retiring, hard-of-hearing comic-book artist named Carl Barks got a letter at his quiet suburban home....

WPA writer Sara B. Wrenn's oral history interview with Cora Ayers Jamerson, a 'small, alert gray-haired' widow and retired schoolteacher and apartment-house superintendent, in her neat but cluttered a

Columbia College, atop College Hill in Eugene, was founded just before the Civil War. It closed after pro-slavery board members took over, and its president skipped town while under indictment...

The catastrophic failure of several of the Utopian cult's articles of faith especially on matters of diet and health care had doomed the community...

Former devout Quaker Henderson Luelling developed some odd beliefs in late middle age, founded a cult called Harmonial Brotherhood,...

When the Great Depression hit, many Oregonians decided to head for mining claims....

WPA writer Sara B. Wrenn's oral history interview with pioneer Oswego resident C.T. Dickinson, recalling how the land was when the lake was thick with fish and ducks and people were thin on the land..

Really, the only reason the U.S.S. Peacock didnt break into pieces and drown all hands within hours of slamming into the sand was that it was a United States Navy ship....

The hordes of awestruck visitors who admired the scenery at the 1905 Lewis and Clark Exposition would have been shocked if they'd known the beautiful little lake would be gone in 20 years...