Portland cartoonist Joe Sacco tells personal stories of the victims of contemporary and historical struggles by applying the artistic and literary conventions of comics to …

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Almost ninety years after his burial on Red Square in Moscow, John Silas “Jack” Reed remains among the most controversial of Oregon’s native sons. During …

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Rabbi Jonah B. Wise led Congregation Beth Israel, Portland’s oldest and most prestigious synagogue, from 1907 to 1926. He played a key role …

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The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA), situated on the Memorial Quadrangle at the University of Oregon in Eugene, is the only academic art …

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Joseph L. Meek, a mountain man, storyteller, and public personality, played a significant role in bringing Oregon into the United States in 1846–1848. A politician …

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Before his death at age ninety-eight on June 30, 1999, Joseph "Ted" Francis was dean of Oregon’s single-screen cinemas. A slight man who shunned retirement, …

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Julia Ruuttila was a labor and investigative journalist, a poet and fiction writer, and a union, peace, and justice activist who lived all but a …

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Kate Wilhelm was a prolific and award-winning author best known for her science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction and her mystery and suspense writing. She …

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Kathryn Jones Harrison of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde was one of Oregon's important tribal leaders. She was known especially for her work as …

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The Portland Oregonian launched KGW Radio in March 1922. Nine months later, the paper’s editor, Edgar Piper, heard a late-night radio music program while traveling. …

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