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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 […]

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. Oregon State Penitentiary circa 1880 (Courtesy of Oregon.gov) Oregon Hospital for the Insane (Courtesy of Oregon State Hospital Museum Project)


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