Beyond Footnotes

The year 2017 marks the 20th anniversary of Portland State University becoming the editorial home for the Pacific Historical Review. The PHR is one of the longest continually published academic journals in the country and is highly regarded for its role in covering U.S. and transpacific history. The PHR is now in its ninth decade of chronicling the people, politics, and culture found along and within the Pacific Rim.

In this episode, we conduct a roundtable interview with a selection of current and past editors to discuss the origins and accomplishments of the Pacific Historical Review. Joining us is current Managing Editor, Marc Rodriguez along with David Johnson and Carl Abbott, former Managing Editor and Co-editor respectively from 1997-2014. We ask these editors about the future of academic journals and get a preview of the May 2016 issue of the PHR.

More information and photos of previous covers: http://www.kpsu.org/beyondfootnotes/phr-roundtable/

Natan Meir, professor and chair of the Judaic Studies department at Portland State University, joins us to discuss the ways in which Jews nonviolently resisted the Nazis. Natan holds his Ph.D in Jewish history from Columbia University. His research has focused on the social and cultural history of East European Jewry, Modern European Jewish history and he teaches an in-depth course on the Shtetl, the Jewish market town of Eastern Europe.

In our interview, we discuss the impact of nonviolent resistance and what forms that resistance took. We discuss the use of music as a means of retaining cultural identity, boosting morale and we look at the legacy of this cultural resistance.

Music in this episode:

Adrienne Cooper - Friling

Adrienne Cooper - Mazel-On a Heym

Adrienne Cooper - Mues, Mues

Adrienne Cooper - Fun Der Arbet

For more on the music of the Shoah visit:

http://holocaustmusic.ort.org/

https://www.ushmm.org/exhibition/music/

Melissa Lang, the current Oregon Women’s History Consortium fellow, discusses her thesis work on women’s organization and activism for civil rights in Portland, Oregon. She conducted her research using the Verdell Burdine & Otto G. Rutherford Collection and illustrates for us how in addition to health services and educational funds, letter writing served as an important community building activity for African American women’s clubs. The Burdine & Rutherford collection is housed at Portland State University and it documents one hundred years of African American community life and culture in Oregon from the 1880s-1980s.

Melissa Lang is completing her master’s degree in history at Portland State University. She’s also the current Secretary of the Portland NAACP’s Executive Committee and the Programs Coordinator for the local non-profit Know Your City, where she coordinates events that utilize art and local history to engage and empower communities within Portland.

More information about this episode: http://www.kpsu.org/beyondfootnotes/melissa-lang/

Doctor Cynthia Culver Prescott, author and professor of history at the University of North Dakota, joins us to discuss her work on Avard Fairbanks, pioneer monuments and gender on the frontier.

More information about this episode: http://www.kpsu.org/beyondfootnotes/cynthia-culver-prescott-the-pioneer-monuments-of-avard-fairbanks/

Katie Nelson, a second year graduate student of Public History at Portland State University, joins us to discuss her thesis research. She is examining how communities in Portland responded to the 1975 police killing of Ricky Johnson, an African-American high school student.

We're joined by Laura Robson, a professor of modern Middle East history at Portland State University. Her research focuses on the history of religious and ethnic minorities in the twentieth century Arab world. We discuss her forthcoming book, the Mandate system in the Middle East and the current refugee crisis.

We are joined by two Portland State University master’s students of history who are researching two Native American leaders: Wilson Charley and David Sohappy, Sr. In the 1950s Charley fought the construction of The Dalles Dam which submerged Celilo Falls and in the 1980s Sohappy and his son were imprisoned for defying restrictions upon their fishing rights on the Columbia River.

In this episode, we sit down with Jenna Barganski to discuss the relationship between masculinity and domestic violence on the Oregon frontier, the Charity Lamb case and her research process.

More info: http://www.kpsu.org/beyondfootnotes/jenna-barganski-domestic-violence-the-frontier/

We spoke with David Horowitz to discuss his latest book entitled Getting There: An American Cultural Odyssey. Professor Horowitz discusses his own encounters through America’s history, including his role in the 1970 PSU student strike.

More info: http://www.kpsu.org/beyondfootnotes/david-horowitz-an-american-cultural-odyssey/

In this episode of Beyond Footnotes, we sit down with Taylor Rose, a second-year graduate student in the Department of History at Portland State University. His thesis looks at the growth of multi-use roads in the forested mountains just east of Portland, Oregon, from the Columbia Gorge Highway to Clackamas River logging roads. We discuss the CCC, Oregon's forests as well as the research process itself.

More info: http://www.kpsu.org/beyondfootnotes/taylor-rose-forests-the-civilian-conservation-corps/