Clark County Historical Museum opens its 2024 Speaker Series season at 7 p.m. Feb. 1 with “Black Woman in Green: The Story of Gloria Brown” presented by historian and author, Donna Sinclair at the museum, 1511 Main St., Vancouver. Doors open at 6 p.m. Sinclair will discuss her book, "Black Woman in Green: Gloria Brown […]

Clark County Historical Museum kicks off its 2024 History on Tap season at 7 p.m. Feb. 22 at the Kiggins Theatre with historians Tyler Castle and Pat Franco presenting “History a-Brewin’: Lucky Lager Untapped.” The program celebrates the 90-year history of the Lucky Lager Brewing Company through an exploration of marketing campaigns, memorabilia and other […]

How many times have you heard someone wearing women’s clothing exclaim, “And it has pockets!” Comparisons have shown that modern garments designed for women have about half the storage space of clothing designed for men. From their invention, pockets in women’s fashion have represented independence—so much so that in the 18th century, laws were enacted […]

At 4 p.m. March 30, the Clark County Historical Museum, 1511 Main St., Vancouver, will host a screening of “Buffalo Soldiers: Fighting on Two Fronts” by local documentarian, Dru Holley. […]

The Clark County Historical Museum Speaker Series features Bernadette Marie Calafell, a professor and chair of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at Gonzaga University specializing in Latinx/o/a Studies, women of color feminism and LGBTQ Studies. Calafell is the author of "Latina/o Communication Studies: Theorizing Performance and Monstrosity, Performance, and Race in Contemporary Culture." This talk […]

The Clark County Historical Museum, 1511 Main Street, Vancouver, welcomes author and maritime journalist, Peter Marsh, to the Speaker Series program with his presentation, "Liberty Factory: A Look at the Kaiser Shipyards," at 7 p.m. July 11. Marsh will describe the history of Henry Kaiser’s WWII Oregon shipyards and their impact on the ports and […]

The Clark County Historical Museum presents "Stomp and Shout: The Untold Story of Northwest Rock & Roll," from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Aug. 1 at Fourth Plain Community Commons, 3101 E. Fourth Plain Blvd., Suite 101, Vancouver. The presenter is author Peter Blecha, the director of the Northwest Music Archives, founding curator at Seattle's Museum […]

What do Loki, Banksy, Bugs Bunny, Thelonious Monk, Mae West, Yoko Ono, Raven, Eshù Elégba, and Muhammad Ali all have in common? From 7 to 8:30 p.m. Oct. 3 at Fourth Plain Community Commons, Author Shepherd Siegel explores the Trickster in politics and culture, discussing the paradoxes, art, tricks, backfires, pranks and pratfalls that form […]