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Eva Emery Dye Papers (Mss 1089), 1776-1997 (bulk 1890-1940), 11.5 cu. ft. The Eva Emery Dye Papers consist of correspondence, ephemera, a literary journal, manuscripts, research notes, and scrapbooks relating [...]

Books are meant to be read. The Kingston and District Branch of the United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada reached an agreement in December to place their collection of about [...]

THE OREGON HISTORICAL Society's (OHS's) research library holds over 7,500 sound recordings, clocking in at around 14,000 hours. This collection includes speeches, lectures, radio programs, musical performances, and even Fred [...]

Lucy Briggs and Sally Ball lived in a world of extremes in antebellum Richmond, Virginia. For Black Virginians the city simultaneously represented the hope of freedom and the horrors of [...]

In the quiet corners of the Harriet Irving Library at the University of New Brunswick, many family mysteries have been solved, research projects have started and finished, and loyalist lives [...]

This article examines the fictional origins of a widely reproduced broadside for an 1852 slave auction in Charleston, South Carolina, that has for the last century been accepted as an authentic relic of the slave trade. Close analysis of the document's content and the local history of Charleston reveals numerous discrepancies that establish the document's inauthenticity and illustrate the value of basic corroboration and contextualization to historical inquiry. Tracing the document's actual origins to an 1892 fictional illustration, the article shows how its long career as an object of historical memory can shed light on the shifting and contested ways in which Americans have remembered the role of slavery and African Americans in the nation's past. Keywords: memory of slavery; museums; public history; South Carolina; African Americans; domestic slave trade, In the decades before the American Civil War, the brokers, buyers and sellers who conducted the domestic slave trade sold off an estimated two million enslaved African Americans, diligently documenting [...]

Ben Winans worked as a printer in Brookville, Indiana, but he was also an amateur photographer who enjoyed roaming all of Franklin County. He photographed the Big Four Crew at [...]

ONTARIO AND WOODBURN, OREGON, share many characteristics. Historically both towns depended heavily on an agricultural economy, farms surround both towns geographically, and large numbers of farmworkers reside in both places, [...]

WHEN IDA NEA TRIBOLET moved to Baker City with her mother and two sisters in 1897, it was a bustling commercial and transportation hub. At the time, it was the [...]

As we move into summer, crews are busy repairing roads. This close-up view by photographer Larry Foster shows what was done in 1955 to Monument Circle in Indianapolis. Roads are [...]

This case study situates an early text-to-speech computer developed for blind persons, the Kurzweil Reading Machine (KRM), within a broader history of speech synthesis technologies. Though typically no more than a footnote in the technical history of speech synthesis, the KRM was still a powerful symbol of innovation that reveals how disability can be used as a pretext for funding technology development. I argue that various boosters held the KRM up as a symbol of technological solutionism that promised to fully enroll blind people into the US political economy. However, the success of the KRM as a symbol belies its technical flaws, the federal subsidies needed to bring it to fruition, and the structural barriers to its use that were elided by its Utopian promise. KEYWORDS: text to speech, speech synthesis, reading machines, assistive technologies, IN EARLY 1976 WALTER CRONKITE DEFERRED HIS USUAL sign-off on the CBS Evening News to a new text-tospeech computer system, the Kurzweil Reading Machine (KRM), named for its twenty-seven-year-old inventor, [...]

ASSOCIATION NEWS ACHA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, January 4-6, 2023 The American Catholic Historical Association held its 103rd annual meeting from January 4-6, 2023, in Philadelphia. The program committee consisted of [...]

IN 2021, the staff of the Oregon Historical Society's (OHS's) research Library embarked on a project to update and improve selected collection guides for older collections. This work has included [...]

THE GRAND OPENING of the Fox Theatre, located at Southwest Broadway and Taylor streets, took place on August 12, 1954. According to the Oregonian the following day, some 6,000 'local [...]

THE OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY (OHS) has a longstanding relationship with the Yasui family that began in 1991, when Homer Yasui and his family donated more than 100,000 documents and over [...]

On February 13, 1830, Jourdan M. Saunders sent a letter from New Orleans to David Burford in Smith County, Tennessee, about fifty miles east of Nashville. Burford was Saunders's brother-in-law [...]

It would be difficult to overstate the centrality of Brown v. Board of Education to American law and life. Legal scholars from across the ideological spectrum have lavished more attention on that Supreme Court decision than any other issued during the last century. In recent decades, the standard account of Brown has placed that most-scrutinized opinion in a geopolitical context. Brown, the standard account maintains, must be viewed as a product of the Cold War era. By the 1950s, the persistence of laws codifying racial subordination had become an embarrassment for the United States on the global stage. The U.S. effort to defeat communism around the world thus rendered the recognition of civil rights for Black Americans a Cold War imperative. This Article complicates and challenges that account by exploring the central role that anticommunism played in segregationists' opposition to Brown and civil rights. Throughout most of the twentieth century, a broad array of Americans contended that preserving Jim Crow was a Cold War imperative in its own right. For this group, anticommunism and segregation were not just compatible, but inextricably intertwined. Their ranks included northerners and southerners alike: politicians, jurists, columnists, and ordinary citizens. White supremacists did not invoke anticommunism merely as a disingenuous ploy to combat Brown. Both long before and long after 1954, anticommunism helped to shape the contours of segregationist thought. The defenders of Jim Crow assailed integration as a product of communistic central government authority. They insisted that racial equality would create discord within the United States, just as the Soviets desired, and that civil rights activists were tainted by communist affiliations. Many segregationists viewed themselves as committed Cold Warriors, undertaking closely connected fights against both a foreign ideological threat and a domestic social one. As such, the Cold War represented not only a divide between the United States and the Soviet Union; it also reflected a debate within the United States over the relationship between racial justice, national security, and foreign policy. Understanding that segregationists viewed their cause as a Cold War imperative recasts dominant views within legal academia, where this essential component of Browns geopolitical context remains underappreciated. While it is tempting to dismiss every segregationist invocation of anticommunism as the product of either irrationality or opportunism, it would be a mistake to do so. Linking segregation with anticommunism transformed the defense of Jim Crow from a regional priority into a national one. Anticommunism also helped resolve a core tension in the segregationist belief that Black citizens did not actually want integration, allowing civil rights lawsuits to be attributed to communist agitation. Reckoning with this significant element of the civil rights era, this Article thus illuminates the logic of a racist worldview. In so doing, it provides a fuller, more accurate portrait of a critical period in constitutional history, of the complex dynamics undergirding legal change, and of the malleable, tenacious character of racism in modern America., Table of Contents Introduction I. The Standard Geopolitical Account of Brown II. Jim Crow as a Cold War Imperative A. Before Brown B. Brown C. Massive Resistance D. The Long [...]

The Portland Automobile Club was organized in 1905, and members spent their Sunday afternoons on organized auto tours to their clubhouse outside Portland and in sponsored races to show off [...]

NORTHWESTERN LAKE COUNTY hosts striking Fort Rock, among the least visited landmarks of Oregon. A tuff ring, the formation was created over 100,000 years ago when hot magma encountered water-saturated [...]

One of the most salient divisions between medieval Rabbanites and Qaraites was in the field of calendar. Qaraites and Rabbanites disagreed on how to determine which years to intercalate (i.e., to extend with the insertion of a thirteenth month) in order to keep up with the seasons. While the Rabbanites used a fixed nineteen-year cycle of intercalation, the Qaraites maintained that intercalation must be based on the state of ripeness of barley crops in Palestine. This created problems for Qaraite communities outside of the Land of Israel, many of whom found it impossible to receive information about the state of crops in Palestine in time to celebrate Passover. This article investigates how medieval Qaraite Diaspora communities made a decision to intercalate. Based on a wide range of sources many of which were not previously discussed, it studies the Diaspora communities' approaches to empirical intercalation and provides an in-depth analysis of the Qaraites' attitude toward and use of mathematical methods, such as the method of the vernal equinox and the Rabbanite nineteen-year cycle of intercalations. The article also reflects on the attitude of Palestinian Qaraite ideologists toward the calendar situation in the Diaspora and argues that the division between Qaraites as adherents of an empirical intercalation vs. Rabbanites as followers of a fixed calculated scheme was never clear-cut when considered in the context of the entire Qaraite Jewish community, and of lived practice rather than ideology., Introduction One of the most salient divisions between medieval Rabbanites and Qaraites was in the field of calendar. The Rabbanite calendar was based on a fixed calculation. The Qaraites maintained [...]

A set of three videocassettes on the Vatican Apostolic Library has been produced with the general title 'The Wonders of the Vatican Library.' The first cassette is on 'The Hall [...]

In late 1891 a debate erupted after the North American Review published an article criticizing Jews and their supposed lack of military service. The article, attributed to a U.S. Army [...]

As I learn about OER, the moral clarity of using materials that are entirely free and clear for pedagogical distribution is obvious and appealing. The pandemic has heightened an already [...]

Navarro College Archives announces the update of the Pearce Civil War Collection website. Descriptions of over two hundred collections are available at . The Library of Virginia's Digital Library Program [...]

THE COLFAX MASSACRE--DUBBED A "RIOT" BY THE VICTORS--LEFT three white and at least sixty-three Black men dead on Easter Sunday 1873, making it one of Reconstruction's bloodiest racial confrontations. (1) [...]

THIS ESSAY OFFERS a practical approach to teaching with the Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers Project, 1936-1938 collection available on the Library of Congress's American Memory [...]

CROSSING THE COLUMBIA RIVER has long been a major undertaking. During much of the nineteenth century, ferries and boats provided the only means of moving from one side of the [...]

EIGHT-YEAR-OLD Orytha 'Ryth' Gatch poses for her mother, Helen Plummer Gatch, with seven-year-old Asahel Bush IV in front of Asahel's grandfather's house--now known as the Bush House Museum --in Salem. [...]

SUMMER CAMP has been part of American life for more than a century, and the Camp Fire Girls' Camp Namanu has been part of Oregon summers for ninety-one years--the past [...]

TENS OF THOUSANDS of supporters attend every home game of both the Portland Timbers and Portland Thorns FC, emphasizing the city's enthusiasm for the teams. Despite presence of the game [...]

This contribution explores seventeenth-century cross-imperial behavior through a close analysis of the activities of several northern European businessmen involved in the Atlantic trade. Its primary aim is to investigate an international network of individuals who were willing to jump ship whenever a better opportunity arose in another trading enterprise. The focus is on Dutchmen who left Dutch trading companies in order to join trading ventures under Danish protection. This article also examines the motives of these businessmen, as well as the ways in which they transgressed imperial boundaries. In doing so, it demonstrates that cross-imperial practices already existed prior to the establishment of trading companies. Overall, the article demonstrates the importance of these businessmen and practices in understanding the international and cross-imperial character of the northern European trading ventures in the Atlantic. Keywords: Atlantic trade, Baltic history, cross-imperial behavior, business history, company history., IN January 1647, a ship called the Prince of Denmark, sailing under the Danish flag, appeared on the Gold Coast in west Africa. In doing so, it immediately caught the [...]

As she lies divested of every attribute of advantage, disfigured and forsaken, she is but a startling type of that more dreadful wreck, the man of power, or grace, and [...]

IN APRIL 1983, Portland General Electric (PGE) donated a collection of photographic prints and negatives to the Oregon Historical Society (OHS), containing more than 7,000 images used to promote its [...]

ABSTRACT The John Cage Collection at Northwestern University is an extensive archive of manuscripts, correspondence, and other original materials documenting Cage's music, life, and ideas. Established in the early 1970s [...]