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The Oregonian — Opinion: Oregon’s racist history runs deeper than you might think
The widespread white support in Oregon for the Black Lives Matter movement, reflected in weeks of peaceful demonstrations from Portland to far-off Wallowa County, is in striking contrast to the state’s long history of racial exclusion and discrimination.
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Peter Hardeman Burnett’s Short but Notorious Judicial Legacy
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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Pacific Northwest Quarterly book review
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
CROSSCUT: Yes, there were black slaves in the Pacific Northwest.
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
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Seen today in Powell’s City of Books in Portland, Ore. » Read More
The Oregonian — Opinion: Oregon’s racist history runs deeper than you might think
The widespread white support in Oregon for the Black Lives Matter movement, reflected in weeks of peaceful demonstrations from Portland to far-off Wallowa County, is in striking contrast to the state’s long history of racial exclusion and discrimination.
» Read More
Peter Hardeman Burnett’s Short but Notorious Judicial Legacy
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.
» Read More
Pacific Northwest Quarterly book review
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
CROSSCUT: Yes, there were black slaves in the Pacific Northwest.
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