Readings Wartime

A list of recommended books and articles concerned with Portland's wartime involvement:

• Abbott, Carl. “Portland in the Pacific War: Planning from 1940 to 1945.” Urbanism Past & Present 6 (1980–81) : 12–24.

• Anderson, Charlotte Jean. “The Kaiser Child Service Centers: A Brief Report.” American Educational History Journal 28 (2001) : 61–67.

• Azuma, Eiichiro. “A History of Oregon’s Issei, 1880–1952.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 94 (1993–1994) : 315–367.

• Bartholomae, Annette M. “A Conscientious Objector: Oregon, 1918.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 71 (1970) : 213–245.

• Bernstein, David A. “Anniversary of World War II Battle Recalls Heroism of Portland Man.” Western States Jewish History 26 (1994) : 165–167.

• Bogle, Kathryn Hall. "Oral History Interview on the African–American Experience in Wartime Portland." Oregon Historical Quarterly 93 (1992) : 394–405.

• Fahey, John. “John Fahey on ‘Reeducating’ German Prisoners during World War II.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 93 (1992–1993) : 368–393.

• Hanson, David E. “Home–Front Casualties of War Mobilization: Portland Public Schools, 1941–1945.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 96 (1995) : 192–225.

• Hanson, David E. “National Educational Policy and the Primacy of Local Interests: Portland, Oregon Schools in World War II.” Journal of the West 25 (1986) : 59–63.

• Justice, Joyce. “World War II Civilian Public Service: Conscientious Objector Camps in Oregon.” Prologue 23 (1991) : 266–273.

• Kesselman, Amy. Fleeting Opportunities: Women Shipyard Workers in Portland and Vancouver during World War II and Reconversion. Albany : State University of New York Press, 1990.

• Kodachi, Zuigaku, with Jan Keikkala, trans., and Janet Cormack, ed. “Portland Assembly Center: Diary of Saku Tomita.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 81 (1980) : 149–172.

• Koehler, Pat. “Pat Koehler on the Women Shipbuilders of World War II.” Reminiscence. Oregon Historical Quarterly 91 (1990) : 285–291.

• MacColl, E. Kimbark. The Growth of a City: Power and Politics in Portland, Oregon, 1915–1950. Portland, Ore. : The Georgian Press, 1979.

• Matthews, Richard P. “Taking Care of Their Own: The Marine Barracks at Klamath Falls, Oregon, 1944–1946.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 93 (1992–1993) : 342–367.

• McElderry, Stuart. “Vanport Conspiracy Rumors and Social Relations in Portland, 1940–1950.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 99 (1998) : 134–163.

• McKay, Floyd J. “Carles Sprague’s Internal Wars: Civil Liberties Challenges of an Editor and Governor.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 96 (1995–1996) : 326–361.

• Olmstead, Timothy. “Nikkei Internment: The Perspective of Two Oregon Weekly Newspapers.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 85 (1984) : 5–32.

• Patterson, David. “The Quiet Pacifists: Oregon’s Old Mennonites, 1914–1945.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 93 (1992) : 116–146.

• Pitzer, Paul C. “Pink Elephants on the Willamette: The Life and Times of Jack ‘Thanks a Million’ Matlack.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 96 (1995) : 136–191.

• Povlovich, Charles A., ed. “Lest We Forget: World War I Diary of Kirby Ross.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 84 (1983) : 4–28.

• Reynolds, Clark G. “Submarine Attacks on the Pacific Coast, 1942.” Pacific Historical Review 33 (1964) : 183–193.

• Robbins, William G. “Timber and War: An Oral History of Coos Bay, Oregon, 1940–1945.” Journal of the West 25 (1986) : 35–43.

• Schwantes, Carlos, ed. The Pacific Northwest in World War II. Manhattan, Kans. : Sunflower University Press, 1986.

• Wiegand, Wayne A. “Oregon’s Public Libraries during the First World War.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 90 (1989) : 39–63.