PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY ·   Fall 2000
 
 

2000 FALL Event

Douglas Wilson

Free Public Lecture
 
“Still Learning About Lincoln: Unanswered Questions About the Great Emancipator”

Introduction by
 Mark O. Hatfield

November 13, 2000
7:30 p.m.
Vanport Room (338 Smith Center)  PSU

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF FRIENDS OF HISTORY

I’m looking forward to an exciting year. Our theme this year is American popular culture. We have secured Robert Brent Toplin from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington as speaker for the Endowed Lecture, details in winter letter.
 
Professor Thomas Luckett is maintaining an FOH web site where you can check out upcoming events. The address is www.history.pdx.edu/foh

Please mark your calendars for November 13, 2000, 7:30 p.m. in the Vanport Room, PSU. Our fall speaker will be Professor Douglas Wilson from Knox College, a distinguished scholar on Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson.  He will be speaking on the “little known” Abraham Lincoln.

For all of  you who enjoy reading historical books and want to discuss them with someone, FOH now sponsors a history book discussion group. The group meets the last Monday of the month and they would welcome new participants.  A schedule of the meetings and the selected books is included in this newsletter. You can also access it on the FOH Web site.
 
Cathy Alzner
 
 

LETTER FROM THE CHAIR

The History Department is excited about the fall lecture given by one of the foremost Abraham Lincoln scholars, Douglas Wilson.  Friends of History and the Academically Controlled Auxiliary Activities Fund are sponsoring the free lecture given by Douglas Wilson at 7:30 p.m. on November 13 in Room 338 (the Vanport Room) Smith Memorial Center.  Mr. Wilson is the author and editor of six books and 28 articles (three of which you may have seen in the Atlantic Monthly).  His books have received numerous awards, including the New York Times Book Review Notable Book for 1998.  He is also a scholar of Jefferson and served four years as the Saunders Director of the International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello.  He has served as a consultant to the Library of Congress, the national Book Service and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library.

His lecture at Portland State University will deal with scholarly problems about Lincoln that have not yet been resolved.  He will speak of Lincoln’s pre-presidential career, his life as a lawyer and history-related events in Portland this year.

See you there,
Lois Becker
 
 

Upcoming Events

Free Public Lecture sponsored by the History Department and Women’s Studies.
Linda Gordon, one of the pre-eminent historians of women in the United States and the winner of the Bancroft Prize for her book The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction, will discuss her account of white vigilante action against Mexican Americans.  Included in the lecture is the manner in which Gordon’s study illustrates racial formation and gender attitudes on the turn-of-the-century American frontier of the Southwest.
This lecture will be November 20, 12:00 noon, in the Great Hall (2nd floor) of  K House Campus Ministry (SW Broadway at Montgomery).

Reception and Book Signing for Gordon B. Dodds.  Professor Dodds will be signing his new book The College That Would Not Die in the Vanport Room, 338 Smith Memorial Center, PSU from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m., Thursday, October 26.
 
 

IMPORTANT DATES:

Fall Lecture:
November 13, 2000

Next Board Meeting:
November 9, 4:00 p.m.
History Dept.
FOH Always Welcome
 
 

Friends of History
Board of Directors

Officers
Cathy Alzner President
Jan Oeltjen, Vice-President
Julie Lay, Secretary
Dave Bogdon, Treasurer

Board Members
Beryl Dahl
Lois Becker, History Department Chair
Beryl Dahl
Gordon Dodds
Daniela Ebeling
Tim Garrison
Erica Goodwin
Vaughn Hill
Cindy Landrum
Bill Ray
Howard Shorr
Gail Throop
Roberta Ulrich

Honorary Board Member
Elizabeth Furse

Honorary Directors
Bernard V. Burke
Daniel Bernstine

The Friends of History newsletter is published quarterly by the Friends of History at Portland State University.  The Friends of History is a group of individuals interested in history who believe that the Department of History at PSU offers a strong program worthy of community attention and support.  In an age increasingly dependent on technology, the Friends of History shares a conviction that the disciplines inherent in historical analysis are vital not only to the preservation of the humanities, but to all sound thinking.  The Friends of History promotes excellence in the teaching and study of history within the University and strives to increase awareness of this resource in the Portland metropolitan area.

Editor:  Jan Oeltjen

Friends of History
Department of History
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