15 Oregonians will participate at the Pacific Northwest History Conference being held in Tacoma from October 19-20, 2012

Pacific Northwest History Conference 2012

As of October 16, 2012; the conference schedule lists fifteen Oregonians who are involved in the Pacific Northwest History Conference 2012 entitled “Civil War to Civil Rights”  All sessions are taking place at the Washington State History Museum, 1911 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma.  This report lists only the Oregonian historians who are presenters, or facilitators at the scheduled sessions.

The presenters and facilitators include, Jeffrey Sawyer from Western Oregon University, Dr. Ethan Johnson from Portland State University, independent historians Dr. Tanya Lyn March, Felicia Williams and Maija Anderson, Professor emeritus Dick Etulain from the University of New Mexico (resides in Oregon), Professor Emeritus  Tom Edwards from Whitman College.  Richard Wandschneider, the Director of Josephy Library of Western History and Culture at Fishtrap, Enterprise, Oregon;  Independent Historian Karen Mirador, Willamette University Associate Professor of History  Jennifer Jopp, F. William Krone from the Oregon Civil War Sesquicentennial Commissioner, Assistant Professor of History Stacey Smith from Oregon State University,  Oregon Historical Quarterly Editor Eliza Canty-Jones, Jackie Hedlund Tyler from Washington State University, Ken Coleman from Portland State University, and independent historian R. Gregory Nokes.

Friday, October 19, 2012–First Day of Conference

2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.

Breakout Session A—   Topic: Activists in Civil Rights ·          Jeffrey Sawyer, MA, from Western Oregon University, will present “Oregon’s Progressive Era Debate on Capital Punishment.” ·          Dr. Ethan Johnson, Associate Professor, Portland State University, College of Letters and Science, Black Studies Department “The Anti-Apartheid Movement in Oregon: Its Successes and Challenges.”

Breakout Session  C   Topic: Oregon Activists For Civil Rights

·          Dr. Tanya Lyn March, Independent Historian

“The Northwest Kittredge Viaduct: the built expression of a community’s determination to cross the tracks.”

·          Felicia Williams, Independent Historian

“NAACP Public Housing and Presidential Politics in Portland Oregon.”

·          Maija Anderson, Head, Historical Collections & Archives and Assistant Professor, Oregon Health & Science University

“The Health Care Dimension of Civil Rights in Portland.”

Breakout Session D—  Topic: Soldiers and Politicians in the Civil War

·          Dr. Richard W. Etulain, Professor Emeritus, University of New Mexico

“Anson G. Henry: Abraham Lincoln’s Political Doctor in the Oregon County.”

·          Dr. Glenn Thomas Edwards, Professor of History Emeritus, Whitman College

“Three Duties Facing Pacific Northwest Soldiers.”

3:45-5:15pm

Breakout Session E--

·          Richard Wandschneider, Director of Josephy Library of Western History and Culture at Fishtrap, Enterprise, Oregon

“Invisible Indians: Civil Rights and the Civil War.”

3:45-5:15pm

Breakout Session F—Topic:  Civil War Connections

·          Karen Meador, Independent Historian

“An Unlikely Champion: Jefferson Davis and the Pacific Northwest

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Saturday October 20, 2012 —Second Day of Conference—All Sessions at the Washington State History Museum

9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.

Break Out Session F      Topic: Civil War Biography

·          Jennifer Jopp, Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, Willamette University

“John Beeson and His Contemporaries: A Call to Conscience.”

·           F. William Krone, Oregon Civil War Sesquicentennial Commissioner. “Civil War Figures and the Overlooked Relationships to the Northwest.”

10:40 a.m.-1:00 p.m. PLENARY/ LUNCH DAVID BLIGHT—CONFERENCE ATTENDEES LUNCH ON THEIR OWN IN AFFINITY GROUPS

1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.

Breakout Session J—Chair: Eliza Canty-Jones, Editor, Oregon Historical Quarterly;

Comment by Dr. Stacey Smith, Assistant Professor of History, Oregon State University

                                                                       

TOPIC: Oregon Slavery and Exclusion

·          Jacki Hedlund Tyler, Washington State University

“Excluded Oregonians: Race, Gender, and Citizenship in the Oregon Immigration Restriction.”

·          Ken Coleman, Portland State University, MA

“’Dangerous Subjects’: Black Exclusion and the Anxiety of Conquest in the Willamette Valley.”

·          R. Gregory Nokes, Independent Historian “Holmes vs. Ford, 1853: Oregon Slavery on Trial.”

1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.

Breakout Session K—Chair: Dr. Jeffrey Sanders, Assistant Professor of History, Washington State University

Topic: Seattle Civil Rights

·          Dr. Robert Donnelly, Associate Professor, Gonzaga University

“Dave Beck, ‘Mr. Seattle’: Missteps”

·          Jessica Shoemaker, Mt. Spokane High School, Spokane “‘Awakening the Child to Cultural Values’: Alternative Education Programs in Civil Rights Era Seattle.” Dr. Dale Soden, Professor of History, Whitworth University “Prophets in the Wilderness: Samuel McKinney and John H. Adams and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Seattle During the 1960s.”

1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.

Breakout Session L-- Chair: Charles LeWarne, Independent Historian

Civil War and Civil Rights Biography

·          Nancy A. Bunker, Associate Professor, Whitworth University

“George Washington, Father of Centralia: A journey from free Black to town builder.”

·          Ed Diaz, Independent Historian, President of the Association for African American Historical Research and Preservation (AAAHRP)

“Horace Roscoe Cayton and the William Meredith Scandal: It Happened in Seattle.”

·          Dr. Michael J. Herschensohn, Independent Historian

“Seattle’s James Washington, Jr., Sculptor and Civil Rights Leader of the African-American Diaspora.”

Listings are subject to change