Dear Oregon
Dispatches from Professional Time Travelers
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A Portal to the Past: Introducing OHS’s Online Museum Collection Portal
January 25, 2022 -
Spice Cookies for You and Everyone You Know
December 14, 2021
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Exhibition Inspiration: A Tribute to Lloyd “Tony” Stevenson, Jr.
November 2, 2021 -
Future Historians: Stand-Out Student Projects from the 2021 National History Day® Contest
August 10, 2021
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Fifteen Months on “Dear Oregon”: Professional Time Travel During a Pandemic
June 15, 2021 -
Collaborating to Preserve Immigrant Voices
June 8, 2021
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An Array of Buttons: The Story Behind OHQ’s Spring 2021 Cover
June 1, 2021 -
Moveable New Deal Art in OHS Museum Collections
April 20, 2021
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The Library Materials — A Series
March 16, 2021 -
Oregon Voices on the Road: New and Updated Traveling Exhibits
February 23, 2021
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OHQ’s White Supremacy and Resistance Special Issue: Now a Free Resource for Oregon
February 16, 2021 -
The Flight Home: The Museum of Mental Health Memorial
January 19, 2021
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History in the Making: Preserving the Al Monner News Negatives
December 1, 2020 -
The Fight Continues: Oregonians Commemorate and Complicate Voting Rights History
November 3, 2020
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Hear, See, and Taste Voting Rights History
October 13, 2020 -
“A Farm Team for the History Channel”: Griswold High School and National History Day
September 29, 2020
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Shared Memories, Protests, and Signs of Resistance: Voting Rights Activities for Families
September 22, 2020 -
Do Protests Work? Let’s ask the Thompson Elk
August 25, 2020
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ChalkTheVoteOR: Understanding History to Envision Tomorrow
August 18, 2020 -
Raised by Feminists
August 4, 2020
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“Breaking Barriers in History”: The Virtual 2020 Oregon History Day Contest
July 21, 2020 -
OHS Re-opening and a Hunt for the Scarce Face Mask
July 7, 2020
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Up in the Air and on the Street: Another OHS Digital Collections Mystery
June 30, 2020 -
Let’s Bake a (Historical) Cake
June 9, 2020
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“History is who we are and why we are the way we are”
June 2, 2020 -
Products with a Purpose: A Museum Store on a Mission
May 28, 2020
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When Oregon Mattered
May 26, 2020 -
Documenting Demolition and Change: A Look at Minor White’s Photographs of Portland’s Old Town and Waterfront
May 19, 2020
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Love in the Time of the Library Move
May 12, 2020 -
From Whence Did it Come and to Where Did it Go?: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Oregon
May 5, 2020
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“Louie Louie, oh baby, take me where ya gotta go.” Which is nowhere. Baby.
April 30, 2020 -
“Here’s What Makes the ‘Whistle’ Toot”: Kaiser’s Bo’s’n’s Whistle Now Available on OHS Digital Collections
April 23, 2020
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Powering History: The Oregon Historical Society Volunteers
April 21, 2020 -
“The Moon Shines on the Moonshine”*: An Oregon Bootlegging Story
April 14, 2020
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Mission: “COVID-19 No More”
March 24, 2020 -
The Power of the Vote: A Brief History of Voting Rights in America
March 3, 2020
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Reflecting on the Oregon Story: Maurine Neuberger and the Margarine Mayhem
February 18, 2020 -
Confronting the Past: Difficult Questions and Public History Today
February 4, 2020
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Boiled Lettuce Greens: A Century-Old Recipe Technical Challenge
January 21, 2020 -
Year End Round-Up: Dear Oregon Turns One
December 24, 2019
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Welcoming Challenging Conversations: An Oregon Historical Quarterly Special Issue about White Supremacy and Resistance
December 10, 2019 -
Brains, Skill, and Butter: Sample a Feast of History in Century-old Cookbooks
November 26, 2019
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Indexing the Oregon Story: Providing Access to Library “Gold”
November 12, 2019 -
A Pageant of Oregon History: Rediscovering New Deal Art at Portland’s Abernethy Elementary School
October 1, 2019
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Look at What He Did! A Behind the Scenes Look at the Many Shades of Being Darcelle
September 3, 2019 -
Meet You on “The Trail”: The OHS Museum Store’s Guide to the Lewis and Clark Exposition
August 20, 2019
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Of Mountains and Metadata: The Photographs of Donald Burkhart
April 16, 2019 -
Our Love Is Carved in Stone
April 2, 2019
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Can She Run a Boiler? Misogyny in the Archives
March 19, 2019 -
Portland, a Squatter’s Paradise
February 5, 2019