by R. Gregory Nokes | Jun 23, 2020 | Blog
Historians have never quite figured out how to judge Peter Hardeman Burnett, and so mostly have ignored him. Yet in the sweep of western history, he’s a hard man to ignore. He held more positions in the early American West than any other leader, including a short term on the California Supreme Court in 1857–1858.
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by R. Gregory Nokes | Oct 16, 2019 | Blog
The Troubled Life of Peter Burnett Oregon Pioneer and First Governor of California GREGORY NOKES (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2018. xi, 270 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $19.95) Peter Burnett emerges from R. Gregory... » Read More
by R. Gregory Nokes | Sep 30, 2019 | Blog
Historians are making our region confront it An Oregon author is exploring little-known chapters of the region’s ugly, racist roots. By Knute Berger, Crosscut In August, The New York Times Magazine published a special edition devoted to the centrality of African... » Read More
by R. Gregory Nokes | Aug 16, 2019 | Blog
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by R. Gregory Nokes | Jul 27, 2019 | Blog
Slavery and Oregon are not often talked about in the same sentence, nor even the same conversation. Yet, journalist and historian Greg Nokes uncovered this little known history of slaves in Oregon in his book, Breaking Chains. He discusses his work HERE. » Read More
by R. Gregory Nokes | Jun 30, 2019 | Blog
By R. Gregory Nokes, Special to CALmatters In his apology for California’s genocidal treatment of Native Americans, Gov. Gavin Newsom focused attention on the state’s nearly forgotten first elected governor, Peter Hardeman Burnett, and his declaration in 1851 that... » Read More
