Wilma Froman Sheridan was the first woman dean of a school within Portland State University. During her stewardship of the School of Fine and Performing …

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In 1852, Wilson McClendon Tigard (née Tygart) settled in what became the City of Tigard to farm. He helped build the area's first school …

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In 1809, John Jacob Astor selected Wilson Price Hunt to be his St. Louis agent for a new enterprise—the Pacific Fur Company—and to lead …

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Winona LaDuke (Mississippi Band of Anishinaabe Indians) is an internationally respected Native American environmental leader, author, politician, and economist. She is best known for her …

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The first house built by non-Natives In Oregon Country that was intended to be permanent was built on the south shore of the Columbia River …

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The campaign to achieve voting rights (also called suffrage or the franchise) for Oregon women from 1870 to 1912 is part of a broad and …

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In 1942, after many men in Oregon had left the workforce to fight in World War II, thousands of women joined a different kind of …

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Woodburn has always had a dynamic identity. Located in French Prairie in the mid-Willamette Valley, the city had a population of over 27,000 …

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It is sometimes hard to believe that one month in the life of a twenty-eight-year-old Oklahoma-born folk singer could have a lasting impact on an …

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The highly publicized wreck of the General Warren in January 1852 off the Columbia Bar was one of the worst accidents in Northwest seafaring. The …

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