Events

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Flora Thompson reading a book with her granddaughter. OHS Research Library, bb017601

Type: Lecture, Book Talk     Series: History Pub

Crisis on the Columbia: Making a Difference at Mid-Century

Presented by Dr. Katrine Barber, with Linda Meanus

Doors open at 6pm


McMenamins Kennedy School
5736 NE 33rd Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97211

  • Free
  • Family-friendly
  • Researchers
  • Teachers
Maxville Loggers: This photograph was taken in Maxville. Photo courtesy of Dorothy Smith

Type: Television Broadcast, Online Video     Series: Oregon Experience

The Logger's Daughter


OPB-TV

  • Family-friendly
  • Researchers
  • Teachers
Lola Baldwin, about 1890. Item Number bb003366 and OrHi 83946.

Type: Television Broadcast, Online Video     Series: Oregon Experience

Lola G. Baldwin


OPB-TV

  • Family-friendly
  • Researchers
  • Teachers
Hawthorne Asylum, c. 1872. OHS Research Library, 26037

Type: Lecture, Partner Event     Series: History Pub

Giving the Noose the Slip: An Analysis of Female Murderers in Oregon, 1854-1950

Presented by Jenna Barganski

5:30 pm doors, first come, first served. Arrive early!


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

  • Free
  • Family-friendly
Minoru Yasui, circa 1959, courtesy Japanese American Citizens League

Type: Film Showing, Panel Discussion, Special Event     Series: Experience Oregon

Never Give Up! Minoru Yasui and the Fight for Justice

Featuring a discussion with Holly Yasui and Peggy Nagae

Doors open at 6:30pm so guests can view our new Experience Oregon exhibit, where Minoru Yasui is featured, in advance of the screening.

Realtime captioning will be provided.


Oregon Historical Society
1200 SW Park Ave
Portland, Oregon 97205

  • Free
  • Researchers
  • Teachers
Holland, Lloyd Smith Collections

Type: Television Broadcast, Online Video     Series: Oregon Experience

Capturing Oregon's Frontier


OPB-TV

  • Family-friendly
  • Researchers
  • Teachers
long line skinner

Type: Television Broadcast, Online Video     Series: Oregon Experience

Reub Long’s Oregon Desert


OPB-TV

  • Family-friendly
  • Researchers
  • Teachers
Okanogan author Christine Quintasket collecting huckleberries. OHS Research Library, bb014523

Type: Lecture     Series: Experience Oregon

Foreigners in Native Homelands: Lewis and Clark and the Pioneers

Presented by Roberta “Bobbie” Conner and Bill Lang

Doors open at 6pm so guests can visit Experience Oregon before the lecture begins


Oregon Historical Society
1200 SW Park Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97205

  • Free
  • Researchers
  • Teachers
After fleeing Myanmar by boat the prior night, a group of Rohingya women and their children take sanctuary at a local mosque in Shah Puri Dwip. The women lived in Maungdaw township in the Rakhine State of western Myanmar. © Greg Constantine

Type: Brown Bag Talk, Panel Discussion     Series: Exiled to Nowhere: A Symposium on the Rohingya Crisis

Bearing Witness: Documenting Genocide and Mass Atrocities

Panel discussion with Greg Constantine, Andrew Stanbridge, Elizabeth Mehren, John Rudoff, and Jim Lommasson


Oregon Historical Society
1200 SW Park Ave
Portland, Oregon 97205

  • Free
  • Researchers
  • Teachers
Under a tarp in the back of a truck during a heavy monsoon rain, Amina holds her sick child and makes the two-hour journey with other Rohingya from Teknaf to a refugee camp in Balukahli. Copyright Greg Constantine

Type: Panel Discussion     Series: Exiled to Nowhere: A Symposium on the Rohingya Crisis

Stories of Survival: A Conversation on Genocide, Past and Present

Panel discussion with Rosalyn Kliot, Sivheng Ung, Samir Mustafic, and Bonus Kayumba


Oregon Historical Society
1200 SW Park Ave
Portland, Oregon 97205

  • Free
  • Researchers
  • Teachers