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  • The Truth About the Ku Klux Klan, 1921

    This pamphlet, whose title page is shown here, contained an edited version of “The Truth about the Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Tule Lake Relocation Center

    The Tule Lake Relocation Center, seen here in 1947, is located about thirty miles southeast of Klamath Falls near Newell and Tulelake, California. Opened on May …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Vanport Flood

    Written by Michael N. McGregor On Memorial Day in 1948, the Columbia River, roaring downstream fifteen feet above the flood plain in Portland, undermined a …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Veterans Lottery and the CCC

    After World War II ended, the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) made eighty-six Klamath Project farm units of 160 acres or less available for homesteading. To …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Way West (film)

    The Way West, a big-budget western film that was universally panned by critics, brought Hollywood stars to Oregon in the spring and summer of 1966. …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • The Wild and Scenic Rogue River

    American attitudes toward wilderness underwent an important change over the course of the twentieth century. In the 1930s and 1940s, Aldo Leopold, Robert Marshall, and …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Willamette Valley

    The pioneers who went west in the mid-nineteenth century found the Willamette Valley “about as Edenic as they had expected,” wrote Terence O’Donnell. The hundred-mile-long …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Wreck of the Congress (ship)

    The rescue of all 445 people aboard the burning passenger steamer Congress in 1916 was the largest single maritime rescue operation in Oregon history. It …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • The Wreck of the Glenesslin (ship)

    The 1913 wreck of the Glenesslin is one of Oregon’s most enigmatic and often-discussed shipwrecks because of the strangeness of its grounding. It is …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • The Wreck of the Peter Iredale

    The wreck of the Peter Iredale is shown in this photograph, taken by Portland photographer Leo Simon on November 13, 1906, nineteen days after the …

    Oregon History Project

3216 results

  • The Truth About the Ku Klux Klan, 1921

    This pamphlet, whose title page is shown here, contained an edited version of “The Truth about the Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Tule Lake Relocation Center

    The Tule Lake Relocation Center, seen here in 1947, is located about thirty miles southeast of Klamath Falls near Newell and Tulelake, California. Opened on May …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Vanport Flood

    Written by Michael N. McGregor On Memorial Day in 1948, the Columbia River, roaring downstream fifteen feet above the flood plain in Portland, undermined a …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Veterans Lottery and the CCC

    After World War II ended, the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) made eighty-six Klamath Project farm units of 160 acres or less available for homesteading. To …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Way West (film)

    The Way West, a big-budget western film that was universally panned by critics, brought Hollywood stars to Oregon in the spring and summer of 1966. …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • The Wild and Scenic Rogue River

    American attitudes toward wilderness underwent an important change over the course of the twentieth century. In the 1930s and 1940s, Aldo Leopold, Robert Marshall, and …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Willamette Valley

    The pioneers who went west in the mid-nineteenth century found the Willamette Valley “about as Edenic as they had expected,” wrote Terence O’Donnell. The hundred-mile-long …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Wreck of the Congress (ship)

    The rescue of all 445 people aboard the burning passenger steamer Congress in 1916 was the largest single maritime rescue operation in Oregon history. It …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • The Wreck of the Glenesslin (ship)

    The 1913 wreck of the Glenesslin is one of Oregon’s most enigmatic and often-discussed shipwrecks because of the strangeness of its grounding. It is …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • The Wreck of the Peter Iredale

    The wreck of the Peter Iredale is shown in this photograph, taken by Portland photographer Leo Simon on November 13, 1906, nineteen days after the …

    Oregon History Project