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Portland, OR — The Oregon Historical Society (OHS) will host a series of book talks this November with authors featuring local and national history. All events are free and open to the public and take place at the Oregon Historical Society (1200 SW Park Avenue, Portland).
On Thursday, November 7, at 6pm, OHS welcomes author Sidney Morrison for a talk on his historical novel Frederick Douglass that richly details the life of one of the most prominent Americans of the nineteenth century. Morrison’s portrayal of Douglass distinguishes him as one of the founders of American democracy, instrumental in ending the institution of slavery from which he escaped to become a fierce abolitionist, gifted orator, and newspaper publisher of The North Star. Sidney Morrison is a retired teacher and school principal and is now a part-time educational consultant and leadership coach for leaders in school districts in Southern California.
To celebrate Veterans Day weekend, OHS will host military historian and Desert Storm veteran Alisha Hamel on November 10 at 2pm as she reads from her new book, When Duty Called: An Oral History of Oregon’s World War II Veterans. This book features a series of engaging personal stories from Oregon World War II veterans who participated in some of the most well-known engagements of the war.
On November 14 at 6:30pm, Peter Boag, curator of OHS’s current exhibition Crossing Boundaries: Portraits of a Transgender West will share insights from the curatorial process as well as the research that went into writing his book Re-Dressing America’s Frontier Past. Boag is Professor and Columbia Chair in the History of the American West at Washington State University and the author of four books.
This series of talks concludes on November 17 at 2pm when OHS hosts Ginette DePreist as she shares stories and reflections from her memoir Reach Up: My Beautiful Journey with James DePreist, which details her marriage to the late internationally acclaimed orchestra conductor, who led the Oregon Symphony from 1980 to 2003. Ginette DePreist, who was born in Quebec City, was married to James DePreist for more than 30 years and traveled with him throughout his career.
About the Oregon Historical Society
For 125 years, the Oregon Historical Society has served as the state’s collective memory, preserving a vast collection of objects, photographs, maps, manuscript materials, books, films, and oral histories. Our research library, museum, digital platforms, educational programming, and historical journal make Oregon’s history open and accessible to all.We exist because history is powerful, and because a history as deep and rich as Oregon’s cannot be contained within a single story or point of view.