In the spring of 2022, PSU history students in Professor Catherine McNeur’s Public History Lab supported the Friends of the Peninsula Park Rose Garden in their ongoing efforts to celebrate Peninsula Park’s rich history. Following the 2020 Black Lives Matter vigils and marches that began in Peninsula Park honoring George Floyd, the Friends realized theirContinue Reading Parks in Context: A Community History of Peninsula Park
by Liza Rosier :: Students in Dr. Katy Barber’s Introduction to Public History course (HST 4/594, Fall 2018) participated in a terrific video/social media project with the Museum of the Oregon Territory. As part of a grant plan to reinterpret the Stevens-Crawford Heritage House, Museum Director Jenna Barganski called on the class to create someContinue Reading Junk in the Trunks: Reinterpreting the Stevens-Crawford Heritage House
By Kirsten Straus :: Tucked away on the northern edge of the Salem Pioneer Cemetery used to lie a small, cement shrine dedicated to “unknown friend[s].”[1] Unbeknownst to most Salemites, this shrine is some of the last remaining evidence of the Chinese who called Salem home around the turn of the nineteenth century. Recently, theContinue Reading Salem’s Hidden Past: The Chinese Shrine at Salem Pioneer Cemetery
Source: Medium.com. A historian is unearthing records of where Portlanders of color couldn’t legally live Nobody knows how man lots had so-called “restrictive covenants.” Greta Smith wants to start finding out. by Michael Andersen | Nov. 29, 2017 From the 1920s to 1940s, federal maps divided U.S. cities into red (“hazardous”), yellow (“definitely declining”), blue (“still desirable”)Continue Reading A historian is unearthing records of where Portlanders of color couldn’t legally live
By Jason Nguyen, KATU News :: Thursday, August 24th 2017 Source: Using Trees to tell Portland’s History | KATU PORTLAND, Ore. — Walk through any of Portland’s neighborhoods and you’re bound to see some towering trees breaching the skyline. A Portland State University project is documenting the history of some of the city’s oldest residents onContinue Reading Using Trees to tell Portland’s History | KATU
Tim Becker and KOIN 6 News Staff :: Published: August 24, 2017, 11:20 am Updated: August 24, 2017, 5:52 pm Source: Website helps preserve Portland trees, collect stories PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Every tree has a story. And now, thanks to a new website, people can easily share and tell those stories. Researchers at Portland State University haveContinue Reading Website helps preserve Portland trees, collect stories | KOIN 6
By Annie Amsden, Danielle Horn, and JoAnne Hermens :: Our group decided to make podcasts about the Portland Heritage Trees to provide a fun, easy introduction to this little-known aspect of our city life. These podcasts add to the collection created by students in course in 2015. We hope that making local history available inContinue Reading Heritage Tree Podcasts
By Carolee Harrison, Madelyn Miller, Sean Van Walchren, and Jeneveve Winchell :: Creating public history in an age of apps and handheld devices presents a unique opportunity to allow participants to get up close and personal with the spaces they’re learning about. What better way to teach the history of some of Portland’s historic treesContinue Reading Portland Heritage Tree Geocache Series
By David-Paul Hedberg :: James Krzmarzick’s “Just Old Trees” is a documentary based on my March 2017 Urban Forestry workshop with the Hillsdale Tree Team. I had always wanted to delve deeper into the history of the Dosch Estate, and when the Hillsdale Team requested a workshop, I suggested we do a walk andContinue Reading Just Old Trees | Documentary on the Henry E. Dosch Estate
Source: Beyond Coursework: Maddie Mott – KPSU In this episode of Beyond Footnotes we interview Maddie Mott, a PSU history undergraduate and development coordinator at the Clackamas County Historical Society. This is Maddie’s second time on the show—in winter quarter we interviewed her and her colleague Corinne Rupp their work at the Clackamas CountyContinue Reading Beyond Coursework | Maddie Mott