Oregon Historical Society
Portland State University is only a few blocks away from The Oregon Historical Society, where you can gander upon some of the most important artifacts in our states history. A recent bill passed in November of 2011 that allows Multnomah County residents into the museum for FREE!
Oregon History Museum Adult Tour Program
The Oregon Historical Society and Oregon History Museum presents scheduled tours of the award-winning Oregon My Oregon permanent exhibit. Tours are led by our knowledgeable docents and available to the general public. All tours last approximately one hour and are included with admission.
Oregon My Oregon interprets Oregon's histories through visual guides, artwork, artifacts, photographs, audio/visual presentations, and hands-on displays for children. The exhibit leads you chronologically through the history of the first inhabitants to current day and explores the diversity of the landscape and the people that have occupied the region.
Oregon Historical Society / Oregon History Museum Group Tours
The Oregon Historical Society and Oregon History Museum presents scheduled tours of the award-winning Oregon My Oregon permanent exhibit. Tours are led by our knowledgeable docents and available to the general public. All tours last approximately one hour and are included with admission.
Oregon My Oregon interprets Oregon's histories through visual guides, artwork, artifacts, photographs, audio/visual presentations, and hands-on displays for children. The exhibit leads you chronologically through the history of the first inhabitants to current day and explores the diversity of the landscape and the people that have occupied the region.
Oregon Historical Society / Oregon History Museum Student Tours
The Oregon Historical Society and Oregon History Museum presents scheduled tours of the award-winning Oregon My Oregon permanent exhibit. Tours are led by our knowledgeable docents and available to the general public, adult groups and school groups. All tours last approximately one hour and are included with admission.
Oregon My Oregon interprets Oregon's histories through visual guides, artwork, artifacts, photographs, audio/visual presentations, and hands-on displays for children. The exhibit leads you chronologically through the history of the first inhabitants to current day and explores the diversity of the landscape and the people that have occupied the region.
Uncovering Oregon's Treasures at the Oregon Historical Society's vault
A secret warehouse filled with treasures from Oregon's past sounds like something from an Indiana Jones movie -- but it's a real vault of history from the Oregon Historical Society.
OSU150 Oregon Historical Society Exhibit
In 2018, Oregon State University celebrated its 150 years of history. The Oregon Historical Society presented an OSU exhibit. Here, OHS executive director Kerry Tymchuk discusses the exhibit.
Archaeological Finds Presentation at the Oregon Historical Society
Oregon History 101 - Two Hundred Years of Changes to Native Peoples of Western Oregon
Presented by David Lewis, Ph.D. Cultural Resources Director, Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde
Recorded at McMenamins Kennedy School, Portland, Oregon
Monday, September 8, 2014
Native societies in Oregon have seen monumental changes in the last two hundred years. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Oregon's tribes and bands have witnessed great losses of land to federal government allotment programs; death from European diseases; and the loss of culture and language from assimilation programs at Indian boarding schools. Through all these changes, Native cultures in Oregon have adapted, and continue to thrive and adapt.
David Lewis, Ph.D., Head of the Cultural Resources Department for the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community, will describe what life was like for western Oregon tribes, and examine the changes that resulted from the resettlement of Native lands.
Oregon History 101 is a nine-month public history program series designed to give Oregonians a basic understanding of the state’s significant people, places, and events. Each month, historians will present a chapter of Oregon history, beginning with the earliest peoples and ending with the turn of the twenty-first century. The series will emphasize Oregon’s connection to historical themes in American history, including Native history, early exploration, western expansion, race, gender, and social justice, and the post-industrial economy. Series Editors Dr. Carl Abbott and Dr. William Lang have designed the series and invited many of the state’s most distinguished senior scholars to speak. Each presentation will feature images from the Oregon Historical Society archives and will be filmed and made available on the World Wide Web, along with research guides and other digitized material from The Oregon Encyclopedia and the Oregon History Project.
Many of the images prepared by the speakers for Oregon 101 presentations are copyrighted by institutions other than the Oregon Historical Society. The Oregon Historical Society may not make those images available on the Web, so the PowerPoints have been excluded from the videos.
Oregon History Museum Student Tour Program
The Oregon Historical Society and Oregon History Museum presents scheduled tours of the award-winning Oregon My Oregon permanent exhibit. Tours are led by our knowledgeable docents and available to the general public. All tours last approximately one hour and are included with admission.
Oregon My Oregon interprets Oregon's histories through visual guides, artwork, artifacts, photographs, audio/visual presentations, and hands-on displays for children. The exhibit leads you chronologically through the history of the first inhabitants to current day and explores the diversity of the landscape and the people that have occupied the region.
New JFK Exhibit at Oregon Historical Society
The Oregon Historical Society unveils a new exhibit focused on the 35th president of the United States, John F. Kennedy.
Oregon History 101—“Thinking About Oregon”
Presented by Dr. Richard Etulain and Dr. Jane Hunter. Unfortunately, for copyright considerations, the slides from this presentation are not available.
Recorded on May 4, 2015
McMenamins Kennedy School, Portland, Oregon
After a year of Oregon history, we end with “Thinking About Oregon” two perspectives on the Oregon story in national context. What’s unique about this state, and how has its Northwest perspective influenced the rest of the nation? Richard Etulain, historian of the West and emeritus professor of history at the University of New Mexico, reflects on four Oregonians who brought new ideas and insights to the nation. Jane Hunter, professor of history at Lewis & Clark, takes a different perspective on Oregon history, reflecting on the ways that national stories played out here. She’ll consider the state’s participation in the racial history of World War II, introducing new work on Japanese internment, an African-American newspaperman, and a recent competition for Portland’s east side.
Many of the images prepared by the speakers for Oregon 101 presentations are copyrighted by institutions other than the Oregon Historical Society. The Oregon Historical Society may not make those images available on the Web, so the PowerPoints have been excluded from the videos.
OTBTV with Alex Ansary #316 - A Brief History of 19th Century Shanghaiing in Portland, Oregon
Portland has a part of history that is now becoming more known now than ever. There were days when this town was especially dangerous to wander through (esp. intoxicated) and while being a transient. In the late 1800s, several 'crimps' in old Portland duped witless sailors, loggers, drunks (and others) into signing themselves into indentured servitude with their compliance or without it. This is the story of the things men and women did to other men and women for profit in this town of Portland, Oregon.
Recorded on July 19th, 2014.
The Story of Oregon Is Our Story
Executive Director Kerry Tymchuk, Former State Senator Avel Gordly, and OPB’s Oregon Experience Producer Nadine Jesling discuss the efforts of the Oregon Historical Society to be the place where all Oregonians can find their stories. This video was original screened at the Society's 2015 History Makers Dinner.
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM
fun and cool museum and recommend people going.
Portland’s Black Belt: Motives and Means in Albina Real Estate, 1940–1990
Recorded on Monday, May 22, 2017 at McMenamins Kennedy School, Portland, Oregon.
Presented by Dr. Karen J. Gibson
In 1960, Portland was the second-most segregated city on the West Coast, behind Los Angeles. Four of five Black residents lived in the Albina District. This presentation explores how the real estate industry, public officials, and citizens justified that spatial segregation. It traces the private- and public-sector mechanisms utilized to confine and re-shape Black settlement within Albina. A major motive for segregation was to enable financial exploitation of Black homeowners and renters, allowing housing-industry manipulators to extract wealth from the Black community.
Dr. Karen J. Gibson is an Associate Professor in the Nohad A. Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning at Portland State University. Her scholarship seeks to answer questions about the political economy of racial economic inequality in the urban setting. Her publications have appeared in Cities, Feminist Economics, Transforming Anthropology, the Journal of Planning Education and Research, and the Oregon Historical Quarterly.
About History Pub
Join us for beer and history, sponsored by the Oregon Historical Society, Holy Names Heritage Center, and McMenamins, in which you'll hear lively local or regional history while you enjoy a frosty pint or two of handcrafted ale.
Produced by the Oregon Historical Society with assistance from OpenSignal (opensignalpdx.org).
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Civil Rights and Anti Black Violence in America and Oregon
Presented by Dr. Darrell Millner and Dr. Jason Morgan Ward. Recorded on April 13, 2018 at the Oregon Historical Society in Portland, Oregon.
Racial violence was particularly significant in the nationalization of civil rights, as evidenced by the creation of the NAACP in the wake of northern migration and the racial violence that ensued in the first decade of the twentieth century. That process of violence, migration, and organization connects places such as Mississippi and Oregon, and telling stories about this violence — whether it occurred in Mississippi or in Marshfield, Oregon — linked Black communities and fueled the rise of a national civil rights movement. Join us for a discussion between historians working in two corners of the country, as they explore the ways violence and storytelling have connected those places to the national movement for equality.
Download the handout for Dr. Millner’s portion of the program at
Darrell Millner is a longtime teacher and sometimes chair of the Black Studies Department at Portland State University. His research interest is in Black history and race relations in the American West with a special focus on Oregon Black history.
Jason Morgan Ward is professor of history at Mississippi State University, where he teaches modern United States history. A native of northeastern North Carolina, he received his bachelor's degree from Duke University and his Ph.D. in history from Yale University. Oxford University Press released his most recent book, Hanging Bridge: Racial Violence and America's Civil Rights Century, in May 2016.The book has received awards from the Mississippi Historical Society and the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters. During the 2013-2014 academic year, Ward completed a residential fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania's Penn Humanities Forum. His first book, Defending White Democracy: The Making of a Segregationist Movement and the Remaking of Racial Politics, was published in 2011 by UNC Press. Ward's commentary on race, violence, and civil rights has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and The American Historian. Before receiving his doctorate in history, he was an elementary school teacher in Sunflower County, Mississippi. He lives in Starkville, Mississippi, with his wife, historian Alison Collis Greene, and two sons, Amos and Theo.
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Oregon Historical Society's future lies in voter's hands
PORTLAND, Ore. - The Oregon Historical Society says it may have to close to the public next spring if voters do not pass a levy that would give them $10 million over five years.For the last decade, the Oregon Historical Society hasn't had a curator, so most of its thousands of artifacts are in
Oregon Holocaust Memorial Virtual Tour
A Tour of the Oregon Holocaust Memorial in Portland, Oregon. Photography, Editing, Narration by Chris Reed. Musical accompaniment, Monica Levin.
Oregon History 101 Promotional Video
Oregon History 101 is a nine-month public history program series designed to give Oregonians a basic understanding of the state’s significant people, places, and events. Each month, historians will present a chapter of Oregon History, beginning with the earliest peoples and ending with the turn of the twenty-first century. The series will emphasize Oregon’s connection to historical themes in American History, including Native history, early exploration, western expansion, race, gender, and social justice, and the post-industrial economy. Series Editors Dr. Carl Abbott and Dr. William Lang have designed the series and invited many of the state’s most distinguished senior scholars to speak. Each presentation will feature images from the Oregon Historical Society archives and will be filmed and made available on the World Wide Web, along with research guides and other digitized material from The Oregon Encyclopedia and the Oregon History Project. All events will take place at McMenamins Kennedy School (Portland) and will be free and open to the public.
Series Schedule and Speakers
September 8, 2014
Native Life and Pre-Contact
Dr. David Lewis, Cultural Resources Director, Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde
October 6, 2014
Exploration and Fur Trade
Dr. William Lang, Emeritus Professor of History, Portland State University
Gregory Shine, Chief Ranger and Historian, Fort Vancouver National Historic Site
November 3, 2014
Missionaries, the Oregon Trail, and State-Making
Dr. David Johnson, Professor of History, Portland State University
December 1, 2014
Immigration and Ethnicity
Dr. Jacqueline Peterson, Emeritus Professor of History, Washington State University
January 5, 2015
Cities and Towns
Dr. Carl Abbott, Emeritus Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, Portland State University
February 2, 2015
Progressive Era and Women
Dr. Kimberly Jensen, Professor of History, Western Oregon University
March 2, 2015
Economic Change: Ships to Silicon Chips
Dr. Daniel Pope, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Oregon
April 6, 2015
New Politics: Environmentalism and Civil Rights
Dr. Steven Johnson, Adjunct Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, Portland State University
Dr. Marisa Chappell, Professor of History, Oregon State University
May 4, 2015
Thinking About Oregon
Dr. Richard Etulain, Emeritus Professor of History, University of New Mexico
Dr. Jane Hunter, Professor of History, Lewis & Clark College
This event is sponsored McMenamins, Oregon Historical Society, Oregon Encyclopedia, Oregon History Project, Oregon Council of Teachers of English and Portland State University.
For more information visit oregonencyclopedia.org
Produced by Whaleheart Productions (whaleheartproductions.com)