By Will Schneider :: On April 22, 1867, two young African American sisters of Sacramento, California stood upon the stage and gave their first professional concert. At only nine and eleven years old, Emma Louise Hyers and Anna Madah Hyers, filled San Francisco’s Metropolitan Theater with 800 listeners. Their beautiful soprano and contralto voices wonContinue Reading The Hyers Sisters Concert Debut
By Jeannette Butts :: On April 4, 1906, a conference about women’s suffrage was held in Portland with speakers from around the state which featured suffragist Abigail Scott Duniway. Duniway is considered the “Mother of Equal Suffrage” and “the pioneer Woman Suffragist of the great Northwest.” In 1850, an act passed in Oregon which allowedContinue Reading Marching to Victory! The Briefest History of Women’s Suffrage in Oregon
By Taylor Bailey :: In the epilogue of his spectacular history of American wildlife film Reel Nature, environmental historian Gregg Mitman observes: “We no longer work with animals, we predominately watch them.” Whether the act of watching animals be on film or television, at zoos or aquariums, or on the internet, Mitman’s astute conclusion makesContinue Reading Animal History Meets Natural History | Curatorial Internship with Portland State’s Museum of Natural History
By Evan Smiley :: In 1982, The Black United Front along with other members and leaders of the black community protested the Portland School Board’s decision to place Harriet Tubman Middle School at the Boise Elementary School site. The Tubman location decision clearly exemplified institutional racism, and the demonstrations following the decisionContinue Reading The Harriet Tubman Middle School Protests | Black United Front vs. the Portland School Board
XRAY In The Morning | Tuesday — March 22nd, 2017 On Monday, FBI Director James Comey confirmed the agency has been investigating ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s campaign team. Turns out the investigation has been taking place since last July. To help us understand the impact of Comey’s statement and other assertions made during Monday’sContinue Reading Professor Chia Yin Hsu on XRAY In The Morning | FBI Director James Comey & Inquiry on Russia
By Alecia Giombolini :: On March 21, 1910, a violent riot took place in the heart of St. Johns, during which two hundred local residents, including prominent members of the community, attacked the town’s East-Indian population. By the end of the day, the majority of the town’s East Indian population were forcibly placed on trainsContinue Reading The 1910 St. Johns Riot
By Madelyn Miller :: The “neverbuilt” is a term describing building and design projects that were never realized, or were realized but in a compromised state. My first exposure to the study of the unrealized came when I started working at the Portland State Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Archive (AECA) in June 2016, whileContinue Reading Neverbuilt Portland State | Imagining the past futures of Oregon’s largest university
No, sir, I will not yield! Hosted by: Joe Uris Produced by: KBOO Program: The Abe and Joe Talk Radio Show Air date: Tue, 03/14/2017 8:00am to 9:00am Professor David A. Horowitz on KBOO Joe welcomes Portland State University History Professor David A. Horowitz to KBOO to put this whole thing in perspective. WhereContinue Reading No, sir, I will not yield! | Professor David A. Horowitz on KBOO
By Jeffrey Stone :: This week marks the birthday of one of Portland’s most notorious gangsters: James Butler “Big Jim” Elkins. Born in Texas on March 13, 1901, Jim Elkins spent the first 30 years of his life as a bootlegger and drug smuggler. In the late 1930s he moved to Oregon. FromContinue Reading “Big Jim” Elkins | Gangsters, Unions and Pinball
Eventually, the Sky Will Fall: The Crisis of Sustainability in the Digital Humanities Lecture by Andrew Johnstone, King’s College, London WHEN: Friday, April 14, 2017 | 1pm WHERE: Portland State University Millar Library | RM 160 The growing pains for digital history have recently become impossible to ignore. As the threats of technological obsolescence and media saturation grow largerContinue Reading LECTURE | Eventually, the Sky Will Fall: The Crisis of Sustainability in the Digital Humanities