Events

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Rogue River at Walker Bar. Courtesy of Richard Bergeman from “The Land Remembers: Photographs Inspired by the Rogue River Wars of Southern Oregon, 1851-56.

Type: Lecture, Virtual Event     

Revisiting the Rogue River Wars of Southern Oregon: A Photographer's Journey and a Tribal Perspective

Presented by Rich Bergeman and David Harrelson

Virtual program via Zoom


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  • Free
  • RSVP Required
  • Family-friendly
  • Researchers
  • Teachers
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Type: Lecture     Series: Hatfield Lecture Series

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Virtual Hatfield Lecture

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OHS will send an email with a unique link to attend the virtual lecture one week prior to the event.


Virtual Program

  • Teachers
  • Family-friendly
Works stolen in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft

Type: Lecture, Partner Event     Series: History Pub

Catch a Thief: International Art Theft and the FBI

Postponed Indefinitely


McMenamins Old St. Francis School
700 N.W. Bond Street
Bend, Oregon 97703

  • Free
  • Family-friendly
  • Researchers
  • Teachers
Mayor Joseph Carson Demonstrates With Students. OHS Research Library CN 001253, bb016835

Type: Education Event, Professional Development, Virtual Event     

Introduction to Experience Oregon K–2 Units — Module 2

Presented by Sarah Anderson


Registration for module one, on Wednesday, October 7, 2020, required for attendance. Attendees will be automatically registered for both modules.

  • RSVP Required
  • Teachers
Menu from Coon-Chicken Inn, a popular restaurant on Portland’s NE Sandy Blvd. during the 1930s to 1950s. OHS Research Library, Mss 2442.

Type: Panel Discussion, Virtual Event     

Reflection Roundtable: White Supremacy in Oregon History

Panel discussion with Karen Gibson, Darrell Millner, and Carmen Thompson, moderated by Justice Adrienne Nelson


Virtual program via Zoom

Young women from Chemawa trained at the Eugene National Youth Administration for skilled work in the Portland shipyards, 1942. OHS Research Library, Oregon Journal collection, 013610

Type: Education Event, Professional Development, Virtual Event     

Introduction to Experience Oregon 3–5 Units — Module 1

Presented by Sarah Anderson


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  • Teachers
Oregon student collects buttons at 2019 National History Day contest.

Type: Education Event, Professional Development, Virtual Event     

Oregon History Day Educator Webinar—November 11

Presented by Kristen Pilgrim


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  • Teachers
Exploding whale, Florence, Oregon, November 12, 1970, 16mm original reversal with magnetic audio. OHS Research Library, KATU News, Moving Image Collection, “Beached Whale Blow Up.”

Type: Virtual Event     

The 50th Anniversary of Blasted Blubber: A Conversation with Paul Linnman

A conversation between Paul Linnman and Kerry Tymchuk

Virtual program via Zoom


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  • Free
  • RSVP Required
  • Family-friendly
  • Researchers
  • Teachers
Illustration,

Type: Virtual Event     

Historians and the News: A Historical Perspective on Elections and Political Rhetoric

A Conversation between Dr. Joanne B. Freeman and Dr. Christopher McKnight Nichols


Virtual program via Zoom. Register here.

  • Teachers
  • Researchers
Twilight on the Columbia, Castle Rock in the distance, c. 1902. OHS Research Library, Lily E. White and Sarah Hall Ladd collection, Org. Lot 662, album 712, plate 009

Type: Panel Discussion, Virtual Event     Series: Behind-the-Scenes with OHS

Taking the Lily White and Sarah Hall Ladd Photographs from Boxes to Bytes with OHS Digital Collections

Presented by Laura Cray, Mathieu Deschaine, Ilana Sol, and Robert Warren


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  • Members Only