Dr. Matthew Sutton will give a talk titled “Anticipating the Antichrist: The Rise of American Fundamentalism in a Global Age.” Starting in the early 20th century, a colorful and charismatic group of radical Protestants, anticipating the end of the world, paradoxically transformed it. Perceiving the United States as besieged by Satanic forces—communism and secularism, family […]
The Roots program and History Graduate Student Association are pleased to circulate the program for this Fall’s Undergraduate Research Conference. The conference will take place on Saturday, October 29 in CUE 518. Fourteen former Roots students will present the results of their semester-long research projects and compete for cash awards. Graduate students and faculty have […]
Dr. Lawrence Hatter will speak with Oregon and Washington teachers at Portland Art Museum on Thursday, October 13, as part of a Teacher Initiative Workshop organized by George Washington’s Mount Vernon. The title of his talk will be “Wars of Independence: From Metacom to Tenskwatawa.”
Erik Loomis, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Rhode Island will be giving a lecture on campus next Friday, October 14 @ 11am in the Bundy Reading Room (Avery Hall). His talk is titled “Working-Class Environmentalism: Labor Unions and the Pacific Northwest Forests.” Loomis is the author of two recent books on labor […]
This is Dr. Sutton’s latest op-ed, published last Sunday in the Seattle Times.