What specific events or people, unique to the county or city where you go to school, have had significant impact on the history of Washington state?

What do the debates at Washington’s 1889 Constitutional Convention reveal about the priorities and divisions of the new state?

How have Washingtonians used the courts to protect their civil liberties?

How has Boeing shaped the economy, identity, and communities of Washington State?

Why did tens of thousands of Seattle workers walk off the job in 1919, and what did their strike mean for Washington and the nation?

Where does our food come from—and why is farming important in Washington?

Who benefited from the fur trade in Washington Territory—and who didn’t?

How did introduced diseases impact Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest? How did diseases shape the relationship between Native Americans and non-Native explorers and missionaries?

How were Chinese immigrants treated in Washington Territory—and how did the Chinese Exclusion Act change their lives?

What did early non-Native maritime explorers hope to gain in the Pacific Northwest, and how did it benefit Native communities? What did it cost Native communities?