Articles by: R. Gregory Nokes
News-Register: Applegate left imprint on Oregon’s history
Elected to Oregon’s pre-statehood provisional government in 1845, Jesse Applegate helped write some of Oregon’s first laws. But it was the issue of slavery where he made perhaps his biggest contribution to shaping the future Oregon.
A New History of Three Nearly Forgotten Oregonians: Abigail Scott Duniway, Richard Neuberger, Jesse Applegate
What made Applegate, Duniway and Neuberger “eminent” was they knew they had to convince their fellow Oregonians of ideas most did not yet believe. Book Review by Matt Buckingham Willamette Week November 03, 2021 at 5:30 am PDT Six years before a young John F. Kennedy...
Fort George Brewery will host discussion on ‘Eminent Oregonians’ Wednesday
ASTORIA — Fort George Brewery will host an in-person discussion of the recently released book, “Eminent Oregonians” Wednesday evening. The event is scheduled to take place in the Lovell Showroom. Doors open at 6 p.m. and the event will begin at 7 p.m. The book focuses...
Freedom in the Balance
Most Oregonians today are probably unaware of how close Oregon came to becoming a slave state.
Slavery was intensely debated at Oregon’s Constitutional Convention in 1857. In fact, it was the overriding issue facing the 60 delegates gathered in the old wood-frame Marion County Courthouse in Salem.