Oregon Historical Quarterly articles

Recent articles from Oregon Historical Quarterly

Oregon democracy: Asahel Bush, slavery, and the statehood debate.(OREGON VOICES)(Critical essay)
June 22, 2009... As editor of the Oregon Statesman, Asahel Bush guided Oregon's political leaders through the greatest challenge of the times--successfully negotiating statehood within the tense national debates on slavery that led up to the Civil War. Bush's use of his newspaper as an overt political tool...

Oregon's last conservative U.S. Senator: some light upon the little-known career of Guy Cordon.(Oregon voices)(Biography)
June 22, 2009... Guy Cordon of Douglas County was an earnest, hard-working tax attorney who found himself appointed to national office in 1944, thereby becoming the last reliably conservative Republican senator that Oregon sent to Washington, D.C. Following Cordon's narrow but unexpected loss to Richard...

The architectural legacy of the 1959 centennial Exposition.(Oregon Places)(Report)
June 22, 2009... Fifty years ago, centennial-themed festivals, ceremonies, parades, balls, exhibits, rodeos, and jamborees filled event schedules in even the smallest towns in Oregon throughout the state's centennial celebration, which began on February 14, 1959. The anchor event for the statewide birthday...

100 years at a time: memories of Oregon's centennial.(Oregon Voices)(Travel narrative)
June 22, 2009... I wonder if the world remembers that in 1959, the southern Oregon coast, Coos and Curry counties, became the "Banana Belt" of Oregon. I remember because it was also the summer I shook John F. Kennedy's hand and showed thousands of tourists a fifty-two-pound striped bass in a deep freezer....

Oregon historical society.(Brief article)
June 22, 2009... Founded 1898 John H. Herman, president Jim Richardson, vice president Dr. Lesley Hallick, secretary Marc Berg, treasurer George L. Vogt, executive director Champ C. Vaughan, president, Oregon Geographic Names Board DIRECTORS Ex-officio Hon. Ted...