Pacific Northwest

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• 2/21/2021
  

  From Red Finn Halls to The Lincoln Brigade: Class Formation on Washington’s “Red Coast”

  by Jerry Lembcke

  If the current crisis revives interest in class as an analytical concept, a recent book on union organizing on the Washington state coast offers a model for reconstructing the work, community and social life of a community. 

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• 11/15/2020
  

  Reckoning with Marcus Whitman and the Memorialization of Conquest

  by Cassandra Tate

  The same period that saw the public affirmation of the Confederate Lost Cause myth saw a proliferation of monuments that portrayed the conquest of the indigenous people of the west as virtuous pioneering. The case of Marcus Whitman shows a national reckoning is in order.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  9/18/2020
  

  Scapegoating Antifa for Starting Wildfires Distracts from the Real Causes

  by Steven C. Beda

  The idea of left-wing radicals starting wildfires in the Pacific Northwest dates back to timber companies blaming the Industrial Workers of the World for blazes as a way to discredit demands for workers' power through unions. 

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• SOURCE: Tacoma News Tribune
  8/26/2020
  

  What A 1924 KKK Gathering in Tacoma Tells us about White Nationalism in the U.S. Today

  Managing director of the Tacoma Historical Society Michael Lafreniere never expected to unearth a glimpse into the Klan’s history in Washington state, and more particularly Tacoma.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  7/26/2020
  

  Why Portland? The City's History of Protest Takes an Exceptional Turn

  The "Portlandia" image -- of 1990s slackers driven by liberal ingenuity -- isn't entirely true to the city's history, says former professor Randy Blazak.

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• SOURCE: Crosscut
  4/15/2020
  

  Greater Idaho and the Ugly History of Northwest Secession Movements

  The impulse to separate and redefine the region is as old as the Euro-American settlement of the Northwest, and has roots in so-called “rural values” and racial exclusion that date back to before, during and after the Civil War.

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• SOURCE: Crosscut
  9/30/19
  

  Yes, there were black slaves in the Pacific Northwest. Historians are making the region confront it.

  An Oregon author is exploring little-known chapters of the region's ugly, racist roots.

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• SOURCE: Crosscut
  8-13-18
  

  Researchers uncover Northwest secrets in Spanish shipwreck

  But for quirks of colonial competition, the troubles with managing empire, and the shifting fortunes of international commerce, the Pacific Northwest could have been part of the Spanish Empire.