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Herbs and Roots: A History of Chinese Doctors in the American Medical Marketplace

Type: Online Video, Book Talk     

Herbs and Roots: A History of Chinese Doctors in the American Medical Marketplace

Presented by Tamara Venit-Shelton

Chinese medicine has a long history in the United States, dating back to its colonial period and extending up to the present. Tamara Venit-Shelton’s book chronicles roughly two hundred years of Chinese medicine as a dynamic system of knowledge, therapies, and materia medica brought to the United States and transformed by immigrants, doctors, and patients as well as missionaries, scientists, and merchants.

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Governor Barbara Roberts poses in the Oregon Historical Society’s Nevertheless, They Persisted exhibition next to her inauguration dress.

Type: Special Event, Virtual Event     

Political Pathbreaker: A Conversation with Barbara Roberts

Moderated by Kerry Tymchuk

Virtual program via Zoom


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Strongbox, ca. 1820, used by Dr. John McLoughlin at Fort Vancouver and later in Oregon City. OHS Museum, 1337.1.1-.27.

Type: Education Event, Professional Development, Virtual Event     

Introduction to Experience Oregon K–2 Units — Module 1

Presented by Sarah Anderson

Virtual program via Zoom


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Fishing at Celilo Falls, colorized. OHS Research Library, OrHi 77844

Type: Education Event, Professional Development, Virtual Event     

Introduction to Experience Oregon 3–5 Units — Module 1

Presented by Sarah Anderson

Virtual program via Zoom


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Albina Residents Picket the Portland Development Commission, 1973. OHS Research Library, CN 023743

Type: Education Event, Professional Development, Virtual Event     

Introduction to Experience Oregon 6–12 Units — Module 1

Presented by Sarah Anderson

Virtual program via Zoom


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Joanne B. Freeman. Photo by Beowulf Sheehan

Type: Lecture, Virtual Event     Series: Hatfield Lecture Series

Joanne B. Freeman: Virtual Hatfield Lecture

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