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Resources For Oregon History 101: Women in the Progressive Era


This page contains resources to support my February 2, 2015 presentation for the Oregon History 101 Series 
Social Movements, Citizenship, and Civil Liberties: Oregon Women and Progressive Reform and Reaction (1890s to World War I)
Contact WOU History Department: www.wou.edu/history

 
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List of Oregon Women Candidates for Statewide Office 1914-1920


County-by-county totals for woman suffrage ballot measure 1912: http://www.kimberlyjensenblog.blogspot.com/2012/11/oregon-county-by-county-totals-for.html

Oregon Digital Newspaper Program, Historic Oregon Newspapers, University of Oregon: http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/

Special Issue on Oregon Women and Citizenship, Oregon Historical Quarterly (Fall 2012).

Hope Blooms Under a Benevolent Moon: Valentine Prichard and The People's Institute OHSU Historical Collections & Archives


Century of Action: Oregon Women Vote 1912 – 2012: http://www.centuryofaction.org/

Includes collections, essays, and documents projects, with newspaper articles in digital format and full-text transcriptions of those articles. The 1912 Oregon Voter Pamphlet for and against arguments relating to the woman suffrage measure digitized with a full-text transcription. Also features interviews with women candidates and office holders

Hope Blooms Under a Benevolent Moon: Valentine Prichard and The People's Institute OHSU Historical Collections & Archives




Review Essays, Chapters, Research Files


Dilg, Janice. “From Coverture to Supreme Court Justice: Women Lawyers and Judges in Oregon History.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 113, no. 3 (Fall 2012): 360-381.


Dirks, Jacqueline. “The Straight State of Oregon: Notes toward Queering the History of the Past Century.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 113, no. 3 (Fall 2012): 382-391.



Fernández, Natalia and Tiah Edmunson-Morton. “Women of the Oregon Multicultural Archives.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 113, no. 3 (Fall 2012): 466-477.



Jensen, Kimberly. “Women and Citizenship in Oregon History.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 113, no. 3 (Fall 2012): 270-285.



Long, Linda. Equality, Politics and Separatism: The Papers of Oregon Feminists in the University of Oregon Archives.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 113, no. 3 (Fall 2012): 452-465.



Peterson, Karen Lea Anderson. “The Lucy Davis Phillips Collection: Finding the Lost Women Graduates of Oregon’s Medical Schools.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 113, no. 3 (Fall 2012): 430-443.



Schulz, Austin and Mary Beth Herkert. “Chronicling Women’s History at the Oregon State Archives.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 113, no. 3 (Fall 2012): 492-499.



Oregon Women in the Progressive Era



Azuma, Eiichiro. “A History of Oregon’s Issei, 1880-1952.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 94 no. 4 (Winter 1993/1994): 315-367.



Additon, Lucia H. Faxton. Twenty Eventful Years of the Oregon Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, 1880–1900. Portland, OR: Gotshall Printing, 1904.



Blair, Karen J. “Introduction.” [Biography of Anne Shannon Monroe] Anne Shannon Monroe, Happy Valley. vii-xxix. Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1916, Northwest Reprints Corvallis: University of Oregon Press, 1991.



Boag, Peter. “Gay and Lesbian Rights Movement.” Oregon Encyclopedia Project. http://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/entry/view/gay_lesbian_rights_movement/



----. Re-Dressing America’s Frontier Past. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.



-----. Same-Sex Affairs: Constructing and Controlling Homosexuality in the Pacific Northwest. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.



Browne, Sheri Bartlett. “A Lovely but Unpredictable River: Frances Fuller Victor’s Early Life and Writing.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 112, no. 1 (Spring, 2011): 8-33.



-----. Eva Emery Dye: Romance With the West. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2004.



-----. “‘What Shall Be Done With Her?’ Frances Fuller Victor Analyzes “The Woman Question” in Oregon.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 113, no. 3 (Fall 2012): 286-311.  



Clark, Ava Milam and James Kenneth Munford. Adventures of a Home Economist. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 1969.



Colmer, Montagu. “Oregon Women Lawyers.” In History of the Bench and Bar of Oregon. Colmer Montagu, comp. 24-25. Portland, OR: Historical Publishing Company, 1910.



Davis, Lucy I. “History of Women Graduates of Oregon Medical School.” Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting and Directory of the Alumni Association, University of Oregon Medical School, 17–20. Portland: Alumni Association of the University of Oregon Medical School, 1937.



Dearborn, Mary V. Queen of Bohemia: The Life of Louise Bryant. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996.



Dilg, Janice. “‘For Working Women in Oregon’: Caroline Gleason/Sister Miriam Theresa and Oregon’s Minimum Wage Law.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 110, No. 1 (Spring 2009).



-----. “Uncovering ‘The Real Work’ of the Portland YWCA, 1900-1923.” Journal of Women’s History 15, no. 3 (Autumn 2003): 175-182.



Duniway, Abigail Scott. Path Breaking: An Autobiographical History of the Equal Suffrage Movement in Pacific Coast States. 2nd ed. New York: Source Books Press, 1970.



Edwards, G. Thomas. Sowing Good Seeds: The Northwest Suffrage Campaigns of Susan B. Anthony. Portland: Oregon Historical Society Press, 1990.
Gayne, Mary K. “Japanese Americans at the Portland YWCA.” Journal of Women’s History 15, no. 3 (Autumn 2003): 197-203.
Glauber, Carole. “Eyes of the Earth: Lily White, Sarah Ladd, and the Oregon Camera Club.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 108, no. 1 (Spring 2007): 34-67.

Gunselman, Cheryl. “‘Wheedling, Wangling, and Walloping’ for Progress: The Public Service Career of Cornelia Marvin Pierce.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 110, no. 3 (Fall 2009): 362-389.



Hagen, Katrina. “From ‘Industrial Girls’ to ‘Career Girls’: Postwar Shifts in Programs for Wage-Earning Women in the Portland YWCA.” Journal of Women’s History 15, no. 3 (Autumn 2003): 204-208.



Hall, Greg. “The Fruits of Her Labor: Women, Children, and Progressive Era Reformers in the Pacific Northwest Canning Industry.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 109, no. 2  (Summer 2008): 226-251.



Hart, Alberta Lucille/Alan R., Jeremy Skinner and Brian Booth. The Life and Career of Alberta Lucille/Dr. Alan L. Hart with Collected Early Writings. Portland, OR: Friends of the Aubrey Watzek Library, Lewis & Clark College, 2003.



Helquist, Michael. “Portland to the Rescue.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 108, no. 3 (Fall 2007): 384-409.



Hunter-Morton, Ismoon Maria. “A Silent and Invisible History: Queer Experiences and Heterosexism at the Downtown Portland YWCA.” Journal of Women’s History 15, no. 3 (Fall 2003): 215-222.



Iwatsuki, Shizue and Linda Tamura. “The Making of an American.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 103, no. 4 (Winter 2002): 510-529.



Jensen, Kimberly. “From Citizens to Enemy Aliens: Oregon Women, Marriage, and the Surveillance State during the First World War,” Oregon Historical Quarterly 114, no. 4 (Winter 2014): 427-442.


-----. “‘Neither Head nor Tail to the Campaign’: Esther Pohl Lovejoy and the Oregon Woman Suffrage Victory of 1912.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 108, no. 3 (Fall 2007): 350–83.



-----. Oregon’s Doctor to the World: Esther Pohl Lovejoy and a Life in Activism. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012.



-----. “Revolutions in the Machinery: Oregon Women and Citizenship in Sesquicentennial Perspective.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 110, no. 3 (Fall 2009): 336–61.



-----. “Woman Suffrage in Oregon.” Oregon Encyclopedia.




Johnson, Robert D. “The Myth of the Harmonious City: Will Daly, Lora Little and the Hidden Face of Progressive Era Portland.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 99, no. 3 (Fall 1998): 248-297.
Kessler, Lauren. “The Fight for Woman Suffrage and the Oregon Press.” In Karen J. Blair, ed., Women in Pacific Northwest History, Karen J. Blair, ed. 43-58. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1988.


-----. “A Siege of the Citadels: Search for a Public Forum for the Ideas of Oregon Woman Suffrage.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 84 (Summer 1983).

Krieger, Nancy. “Queen of the Bolsheviks: The Hidden History of Dr. Marie Equi.” Radical America 17, no. 4 (1983): 55-73.


Laegreid, Renee M., “Rodeo Queens at the Pendleton Round-up: The First Go-Round, 1910-1917,” Oregon Historical Quarterly 104, no. 1 (Spring 2003), 6-23.



Largent, Mark A. “‘The Greatest Curse of the Race’: Eugenic Sterilization in Oregon, 1909-1983,” Oregon Historical Quarterly 103, no. 2 (Summer 2002), 188-209.



Lovejoy, Esther C. P., with introduction by Bertha Hallam. “My Medical School, 1890–1894.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 75, no. 1 (March 1974): 7–35.

Mangun, Kimberley Ann. A Force for Change: Beatrice Morrow Cannady and the Struggle for Civil Rights In Oregon, 1912-1936. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2010.


-----. “‘As Citizens of Portland We Must Protest’: Beatrice Morrow Cannady and the African American Response to D. W. Griffith’s ‘Masterpiece.’” Oregon Historical Quarterly 107, no. 3 (Fall 2006): 382-409.

Mendoza, Marcela. “Latinas and Citizenship in Oregon.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 113, no. 3 (Fall 2012): 444-451.
Miriam Theresa (Caroline Gleason). Legislation for Women in Oregon. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America, 1924.


Moon, Katherine Lee. Nan Wood Honeyman and the Politicization of Women in Oregon, 1870-1942. M.A. Thesis, Portland State University, Dept. of History, 2001.

Moynihan, Ruth Barnes. Rebel for Rights: Abigail Scott Duniway. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1983.



Munk, Michael. “Inside Portland’s Bohemia: The Diaries of Helen Walters.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 106, no. 4 (Winter 2005): 594-615.



------. The Portland Years of John Reed & Louise Bryant. 3rd Rev. ed. Portland: Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission, 2003.



-----. The Romance of John Reed and Louise Bryant: New Documents Clarify How They Met.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 109, no. 3 (Fall 2008): 461-477.



Murdock, Rose M. “The Persistence of Black Women at the Williams Avenue YWCA.” Journal of Women’s History 15, no. 3 (Autumn 2003): 190-96.



Myers, Gloria E. A Municipal Mother: Portland’s Lola Greene Baldwin, America’s First Policewoman. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 1995.



Nagae, Peggy. Asian Women: Immigration and Citizenship in Oregon. Oregon Historical Quarterly 113, no. 3 (Fall 2012): 334-359.



Nash, Lee. “Abigail versus Harvey: Sibling Rivalry in the Oregon Campaign for Woman Suffrage.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 98, no. 2 (Summer 1997): 134-163.

Olsen, Deborah M.  “Fair Connections: Women’s Separatism and the Lewis and Clark Exposition of 190,” Oregon Historical Quarterly 109, no. 2 (Summer 2008): 174–203.


Oregon Lung Association. Notable Women in the History of Oregon. Portland, OR: Oregon State Lung Association, 1983.



Owens-Adair, Bethenia. Dr. Owens Adair: Some of her Life Experiences. Portland, OR: Mann & Beach, 1906?)



Pascoe, Peggy. “‘A Mistake to Simmer the Question Down to Black and White’: The History of Oregon’s Miscegenation Law.” In Seeing Color: Indigenous Peoples and Racialized Ethnic Minorities of Oregon. Xing, Jun et al. eds. 27-43. Latham, MD: University Press of America, 2007.

Pluth, Tanya. “The One Imperative and the Portland YWCA.” Journal of Women’s History 15, no. 3 (Autumn 2003): 209-214.


Reid, Kay. “Multilayered Loyalties: Oregon Indian Women as Citizens of the Land, Their Tribal Nations, and the United States.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 113, no. 3 (Fall 2012):


Salcedo, Marissa. “The Best of Intentions: Upbuilding Through Health at the Portland YWCA, 1908-1959.” Journal of Women’s History 15, no. 3 (Autumn 2003): 183-189.



Schechter, Patricia A. “A World of Difference: Portland Women of the YWCA, 1901-2000—An Undergraduate Capstone Experience.” Journal of Women’s History 15, no. 3   (Autumn 2003): 167-174.



Scheppke, Jim. “The Origins of the Oregon State Library.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 107, no. 1 (Spring 2006): 130–40.



Schiffner, Carli Crozier. “Continuing to ‘Do Everything’ in Oregon: The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, 1900–1945 and Beyond.” PhD diss., Washington State University, 2004.



Shein, Debra. “Not Just the Vote: Abigail Scott Duniway’s Serialized Novels and the Struggle for Women’s Rights.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 101, no. 3 (Fall 2000): 302-327.



Soden, Dale E. “The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in the Pacific Northwest: A Different Side of the Social Gospel.” In Gender and the Social Gospel, Wendy J. Deichmann Edwards and Carolyn De Swarte Gifford, eds. 103–15. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003.

Walls, Robert E. and Dora Zimpel. “Lady Loggers and Gyppo Wives: Women and Northwest Logging.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 103, no. 3 (Fall 2002): 362-382.


Ward, Jean M. “‘The Noble Representative Woman from Oregon’: Dr. Mary Anna Cooke Thompson.”
Oregon Historical Quarterly 113, no. 3 (Fall 2012): 392-407.


Ward, Jean M., and Elaine A. Maveety. “Yours for Liberty”: Selections from Abigail Scott Duniway’s Suffrage Newspaper. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2000.


Woloch, Nancy. Muller v. Oregon: A Brief History with Documents. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin’s Press, 1996.



Zeien-Stuckman, Emily. “Creating New Citizens: The National Council of Jewish Women’s Work at Neighborhood House in Portland, 1896-1912.”
Oregon Historical Quarterly 113, no. 3 (Fall 2012): 312-333.




Oregon and Pacific Northwest History --  General Works



Chan, Suecheng et al. Peoples of Color in the American West. Lexington, MA: D.C. Health, 1994.



Clucas, Richard et al. Oregon Politics and Government: Progressives versus Conservative Populists. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005.



Eisenberg, Ellen, Ava Fran Kahn, William Toll. Jews of the Pacific Coast: Reinventing Community on America’s Edge. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009.



Gamboa, Erasmo and Carolyn M. Buan. Nostros: The Hispanic People of Oregon; Essays and Recollections. Portland: Oregon Council for the Humanities, 1995.



Gonzales-Berry, Erlinda and Marcela Mendoza. Mexicanos in Oregon: Their Stories, Their Lives (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2010.



Johnston, Robert D. The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003.



Kessler, Lauren. Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family. New York: Random House, 1993.



Leeson, Fred. Rose City Justice: A Legal History of Portland, Oregon. Portland, Or. : Oregon Historical Society Press, Published in cooperation with the Oregon State Bar, 1998.



McLagan, Elizabeth. A Peculiar Paradise: A History of Blacks in Oregon, 1778-1940. Portland, OR: Georgian Press, 1980.



Moreland, Kimberly S. History of Portland’s African American Community, 1805 to the Present. Portland, OR: Bureau of Planning, 1993.



Oregon Northwest Black Pioneers. Perseverance: A History of African Americans in Oregon’s Marion and Polk Counties. Salem, OR: Oregon Northwest Black Pioneers, 2011.



Peterson del Mar, David. Beaten Down: A History of Interpersonal Violence in the West. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002.



-----. Oregon’s Promise: An Interpretive History. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2003.



Robbins, William G. Oregon: This Storied Land. Portland: Oregon Historical Society Press, 2005.



Tamura, Linda. The Hood River Issei: An Oral History of Japanese Settlers in Oregon’s Hood River Valley. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.



Taylor, Quintard and Shirley Ann Wilson Moore. African American Women Confront the West: 1600-2000. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003.

Toll, William. “Black Families and Migration to a Multiracial Society: Portland, Oregon, 1900-1924.” Journal of American Ethnic History 17, no. 3 (Spring, 1998): 38-70.


-----. The Making of an Ethnic Middle Class: Portland Jewry Over Four Generations. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1982.



Wong, Marie Rose. Sweet Cakes, Long Journey: The Chinatowns of Portland, Oregon. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004.



Xing, Jun et al. Seeing Color: Indigenous Peoples and Racialized Ethnic Minorities of Oregon. Latham, MD: University Press of America, 2007.





Full Text Documents



Council of Jewish Women. The Neighborhood Cookbook. Portland, OR: Bushong and Company, 1912. http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/html/books/book_68.cfm





Film



Oregon Public Broadcasting: Oregon Experience: Abigail Scott Duniway, 2006.



Oregon Public Broadcasting: Oregon Experience: Beatrice Morrow Canaday, 2007.



Oregon Public Broadcasting: Oregon Experience: Lola G. Baldwin, 2008.



Oregon Public Broadcasting. Oregon Experience: The Suffragists. 2012





Websites



Century of Action: Oregon Women Vote, 1912-2012. www.centuryofaction.org



Gay and Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest http://www.glapn.org/



Oregon Encyclopedia Project Entries on Women http://oregonencyclopedia.org/theme/women



Oregon Heritage Women’s History Project




Oregon Secretary of State, Oregon Blue Book, Woman Suffrage Centennial Web Exhibit http://bluebook.state.or.us/facts/scenic/suffrage/suffhome.htm