FOH Events

All Friends of History events are FREE and open to the public.

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Archived Zoom webinars are available via the FOH page of PDXScholar
 
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FEB 2025

Anne Hyde (Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma and Editor-in-Chief of the Western Historical Quarterly)
on her reseaarch behind Killers, Honor, and the Southern Plains: Kiowa and U.S. Army Strategies in Reconstruction Era Indian Country. No presentation available.

Seth Rockman (Associate Professor of History at Brown University)
on his book Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery. No presentation available.

NOV 2024

Lynne Olson (New York Times bestselling author of ten books of history)
on the largely ignored contributions of women that were crucial in helping to free France and win World War II. 

APR 2024

Daniel Immerwahr (Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University)
on the connection between rapid economic growth and chastening environmental catastrophes.

FEB 2023:

Hidetaka Hirota (Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley)
on the patterns of Japanese migration that affected labor immigration and the development of US immigration policy

FEB 2022:

Lon Kurashige (Professor of History and Spatial Sciences, University of Southern California) 
on the racism narrative and the politics of memory on the internment of Japanese Americans during WW2

OCT 2021:

Gordon H. Chang (Olive H. Palmer Professor in Humanities, Stanford University)
on Chinese workers building the western portion of the transcontinental railroad

MAY 2021: 

James Romm (Professor of Classics, Bard College)
on the Sacred Band of Thebes, an elite infantry corps comprised of male lovers

APR 2021: 

Harold Cook (Professor of History, Brown University)
on European interest in Chinese medical texts during the 17th and 18th centuries

FEB 2021:

Elizabeth Cobbs (Chair of American History, Texas A&M University)
on women serving in the U.S. Army Signal Corps in World War I

Below, you may download fliers from selected presentations sponsored by the Friends of History,
including events from the Annual Endowed Lecture Series.