Oregon’s History People of the Northwest in the Land of Eden

This “open textbook” is a social and cultural history of the people of Oregon representing powerful figures from the dominant Euro-American culture, the marginalized and oppressed, and social and political reformers who shaped the historical legacy of the state. It is a story of the diverse array of...

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Main Author: Michaels, Athanasios (Author)
Other Authors: Hakanson, Kaitlin (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] Open Oregon Educational Resources 2020.
Series:Open textbook library.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Origins: Indigenous Inhabitants and Landscapes
  • 2. Curiosity, Commerce, Conquest, and Competition: Fur Trade Empires and Discovery
  • 3. Oregon Fever and Western Expansion: Manifest Destiny in the Garden of Eden
  • 4. Native Americans in the Land of Eden: An Elegy of Early Statehood
  • 5. Statehood: Constitutional Exclusions and the Civil War
  • 6. Oregon at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
  • 7. The Dawn of the Civil Rights Movement and the World Wars in Oregon
  • 8. Cold War and Counterculture
  • 9. End of the Twentieth Century and Beyond