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Portland street scene, 1905

Type: Television Broadcast, Online Video     Series: Oregon Experience

Streetcar City


OPB-TV

  • Family-friendly
  • Researchers
  • Teachers
Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts

Type: Book Talk     Series: History Book Club

Churchill: Walking with Destiny


University Club
1225 SW 6th Ave
Portland, Oregon 97204

  • RSVP Required
  • Members Only
  • Free for Members
No on 9 flyer, 1991. OHS Research Library, MSS 2981-1, Box 5

Type: Panel Discussion     

Islamophobia and White Nationalism in Oregon and the World

Presented by Kambiz GhaneaBassiri and Steve Wasserstrom


Oregon Historical Society
1200 SW Park Ave
Portland, Oregon 97205

  • Free
Leonard Finkelman

Type: Lecture, Partner Event     Series: History Pub

About Ancient Oregon: Where the Dinosaurs Didn’t Roam

Presented by Leonard Finkelman

5:30 pm doors, first come, first served. Arrive early!


McMenamins Old St. Francis School
700 N.W. Bond Street
Bend, Oregon 97703

  • Free
  • Family-friendly
Ship being launched, Oregon Shipbuilding Company. OHS Research Library, OrHi 68566, bb016828

Type: Panel Discussion     

Ideas Matter: History and the Shaping of U.S. Foreign Policy

Panel discussion with Danielle Holtz, Christopher McKnight Nichols, and Daniel Tichenor


Oregon Historical Society
1200 SW Park Ave
Portland, Oregon 97205

  • Free
  • Researchers
  • Teachers
U.S. Army troops exit a landing craft during the D-Day landing in Normandy, France. June 6, 1944, National Archives and Records Administration, 26-G-2343

Type: Lecture, Partner Event     

A Celebration of Heroes: The 75th Anniversary of D-Day

With WWII Veterans Ben Asquith and Abe Laurenzo
Presented in partnership with The Mighty Endeavor


Oregon Historical Society
1200 SW Park Ave
Portland, Oregon 97205

  • Free
Minor White, Witch Hazel Building and the Hawthorne Bridge, 1940. OHS Research Library, bb015335

Type: Book Talk, Lecture     Series: Second Sunday

Lost Portland

Presented by Val Ballestrem


Oregon Historical Society
1200 SW Park Ave
Portland, Oregon 97205

  • Free
  • Researchers
Rick Atkinson. Photo by Elliott O'Donovan.

Type: Lecture, Special Event     

An Evening with Rick Atkinson

Author of The British Are Coming

MEMBERS: If you have not received an email containing details on how to access members-only pricing, please contact us at communications@ohs.org or 503.222.1741.


First Congregational United Church of Christ Portland
1126 SW Park Ave
Portland, Oregon 97205

  • Teachers
  • Researchers
600 Demonstrators march to protest bombing in Birmingham, Alabama that killed four black children. 09/23/1963, OHS Research Library, Oregon Journal Collection, CN 020486

Type: Lecture     Series: Experience Oregon

Oregon’s Enigmatic Black History

Presented by James Stanley Harrison


Oregon Historical Society
1200 SW Park Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97205

  • Free
  • Teachers
  • Researchers
Lesbian and Gay Pride, Portland, 1982. GLAPN Coll., Mss2988-2

Type: Lecture     Series: History Pub

50 Years After Stonewall - Portland’s LGBTQ History

Panel discussion moderated by Jeff Stookey (GLAPN-Gay & Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest) with Darcelle and Holly Hart

Doors open at 6pm


McMenamins Kennedy School
5736 NE 33rd Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97211

  • Free
  • Family-friendly
  • Researchers
  • Teachers