FOH Events All Friends of History events are FREE and open to the public.Sign up to receive upcoming event announcements sponsored by the Friends of History. SIGN UP for EVENT EMAIL LIST about this content Archived Zoom webinars are available via the FOH page of PDXScholar. Watch presentations from: FEB 2023: Hidetaka Hirota (Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley) on the patterns of Japanese migration that affected labor immigration and the development of US immigration policy FEB 2022: Lon Kurashige (Professor of History and Spatial Sciences, University of Southern California) on the racism narrative and the politics of memory on the internment of Japanese Americans during WW2 OCT 2021: Gordon H. Chang (Olive H. Palmer Professor in Humanities, Stanford University) on Chinese workers building the western portion of the transcontinental railroad MAY 2021: James Romm (Professor of Classics, Bard College) on the Sacred Band of Thebes, an elite infantry corps comprised of male lovers APR 2021: Harold Cook (Professor of History, Brown University) on European interest in Chinese medical texts during the 17th and 18th centuries FEB 2021: Elizabeth Cobbs (Chair of American History, Texas A&M University) on women serving in the U.S. Army Signal Corps in World War I NOV 2020: Nathan D.B. Connolly (Assoc. Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University) on residential segregation, popular sovereignty, and property rights in American history PDX Scholar Archives about this content Below, you may download fliers from selected presentations sponsored by the Friends of History, including events from the Annual Endowed Lecture Series. Winter 2020, Anya Zilberstein Fall 2019, Patrick Geary Spring 2019, Natalia Molina Spring 2019, Jeffry Frieden Fall 2018, William Taubman Winter 2018, Heather Thompson Fall 2017, Linda Gordon Fall 2017, Margaret McMillan Winter 2020, Anya Zilberstein Fall 2019, Patrick Geary Spring 2019, Natalia Molina Spring 2019, Jeffry Frieden Fall 2018, William Taubman Winter 2018, Heather Thompson Fall 2017, Linda Gordon Fall 2017, Margaret McMillan Previous Image Item Slide Next Image Item Slide Spring 2017, Michael Kazin Fall 2016, Scott Bruce Fall 2015, James McPherson Spring 2015, Garrett Fagan Fall 2012, Al Camarillo Spring 2012, Stephanie Coontz Spring 2017, Michael Kazin Fall 2016, Scott Bruce Fall 2015, James McPherson Spring 2015, Garrett Fagan Fall 2012, Al Camarillo Spring 2012, Stephanie Coontz Previous Image Item Slide Next Image Item Slide