
A human view of a civil rights icon
Historian Jonathan Eig talks to a Portland audience about his intimate portrait of MLK Jr.’s American journey in “King: A Life,” the first biography of the human rights crusader in 40 years.
Historian Jonathan Eig talks to a Portland audience about his intimate portrait of MLK Jr.’s American journey in “King: A Life,” the first biography of the human rights crusader in 40 years.
The former Oregon political figure’s new memoir takes her back to the 1950s and life-shaping experiences from teaching in England to seeing apartheid first-hand.
A memoir by Richard Etulain, Oregon historian of the West, spins a yarn about growing up on a Basque sheep ranch in eastern Washington.
Peniel Joseph tells an Oregon Historical Society audience about the nation’s three phases of Reconstruction and the continuing quest for racial equity.
The noted historian traces the “great environmental awakening” of the mid-20th century for a Hatfield Lecture Series audience.
In an Oregon Historical Society lecture, author and historian Mai Ngai traces the legacy of racially motivated mistreatment of Chinese workers in the U.S. and British colonies.
NPR’s Nina Totenberg tells an Oregon Historical Society audience about her book “Dinner with Ruth” and her long friendship with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Johnson and Congress’s great achievement of almost 60 years ago is under attack, the noted historian tells an Oregon Historical Society audience.
In a city that revels in the art of the book, bookbinder Jason Patrician revives and restores the beauty of printed history.
The Special Collections Room at Central Library is a place for serious research amid a trove of rarities, from 13th century Bibles to early-edition copies of Beatrix Potter’s children’s tales.
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