Recently added articles from Oregon Historical Quarterly:
Democracy and its discontents in Oregon political history.(STATEHOOD SESQUICENTENNIEL SERIES)(Essay)
Sep 22, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] We are the political and social descendants and heirs of pioneers who had a passionate belief in the common man and in his ability to organize a society in which he could live a life free from restraint and intolerance, and enriched by all that his ...
Revolutions in the machinery: Oregon women and citizenship in sesquicentennial perspective.(STATEHOOD SESQUICENTENNIEL SERIES)(Essay)
Sep 22, 2009; ... HISTORIANS ENGAGE in a dynamic process of research, writing, and analysis that often leads us from one subject of study to new questions and fresh fields of inquiry. As we commemorate the sesquicentennial of Oregon statehood in 2009, I find myself in just such a transition as a historian ...
"Wheedling, wangling, and walloping" for progress: the public service career of Cornelia Marvin Pierce, 1905-1943.(STATEHOOD SESQUICENTENNIEL SERIES)(Biography)
Sep 22, 2009; ... CORNELIA MARVIN PIERCE (1873-1957) is a formidable figure in Oregon history, an important Progressive Era public servant and reformer whose impact on the state is still evident more than fifty years after her death. Beginning in 1905, she directed statewide efforts to develop free public ...
The paradox of Oregon's progressive politics: the political career of Walter Marcus Pierce.(STATEHOOD SESQUICENTENNIEL SERIES)(Biography)
Sep 22, 2009; ... IF ASKED TO NAME INFLUENTIAL state politicians, Oregonians might mention the names of Harry Lane, Charles McNary, William U'Ren, or Tom McCall. Walter M. Pierce, however, would likely not be on the list. As an undergraduate, I spent many hours at the card catalog and in the book stacks of ...
Life stories for new generations: the living art of Oregon tribal regalia.(EXHIBIT ESSAY)(Hallie Ford Museum of Art of Toi Maori: The Eternal Thread exhibition)(Essay)
Sep 22, 2009; ... INDIGENOUS PEOPLES from opposite sides of the Pacific Rim gathered at the Willamette University campus on September 23, 2005, to celebrate the opening at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art of Toi Maori: The Eternal Thread, an exhibition of contemporary and traditional Maori weaving that ...