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Oregon Humanities is a journal of ideas and perspectives published three times a year by the Oregon Council for the Humanities. Each issue includes essays and articles that explore a particular theme from a variety of perspectives, broadening the ways in which readers think about a subject and providing a basis for further thoughtful discussion.
Oregon Humanities Spring 2009
- Kathleen Holt
- EDITOR
- Raina Hassan
- COMMUNICATIONS ASSISTANT
- Jennifer Viviano
- GRAPHIC DESIGN
- Allison Dubinsky
- COPY EDITOR
- Editorial Advisory Board
- Tom Booth
- Brian Doyle
- Debra Gwartney
- Julia Heydon
- Marianne Keddington-Lang
- Guy Maynard
- Win McCormack
- Camela Raymond
- Kate Sage
- Rich Wandschneider
- Dave Weich
- Curt Yehnert
Oregon Humanities, a journal of ideas and perspectives about the humanities, is published triannually by the Oregon Council for the Humanities, 813 SW Alder Street, Suite 702, Portland, Oregon 97205.
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Nostalgia
- Becoming Modern
- by Seth Cotlar
- Nostalgia as a fairly new phenomenon--and a very understandable response to progress
- One's Native Land
- by Allison Dubinsky
- Longing for a particular time and place
- Land of Milk and Honey
- by Alex Behr
- An adopted child longs for--and creates--his own memories
- Literary Legacies
- by Ellen Santasiero
- Why a writer's boxes of drafts and correspondence are worth saving
- Virginia's Pantry
- by Harriet Fasenfest
- A modern-day homesteader looks for a way to turn nostalgia into action
- In Favor of Rootedness
- by John Daniel
- A shared history of land and people make a place home
- Forward into the Past
- by Brett Campbell
- Portland has been shrewdly strategic in using its history to shape its future
- Back on the Trail
- by Nancy Webber
- What can lure a married mother of two back into the grueling world of presidential campaigns?
- Stomping Ground
- by Monica Drake
- A Victorian manse, Joan of Arc, and a changing neighborhood
- Field Work:
- From the Director
- News from OCH
- Citizens on the Beat: Bend community radio uses an OCH public program grant to train citizen journalists to cover the election year.
- By Raina Hassan
- A New Landscape: Reed College political science professor Paul Gronke wants to change how Americans think about elections.
- By Eric Gold
- Always a Teacher: Oregon Chautauqua scholar Erlinda Gonzales-Berry helps Oregonians understand Mexican immigration.
- By Annie Dubinsky
- Win's Way: OCH board member Win McCormack straddles the literary and political worlds.
- By Joseph Gallivan
- Short Takes
- Excerpts on the theme of nostalgia: Against Nostalgia by OCH Commonplace Lecturer and architecture critic Randy Gragg | Living Among Headstones by writer and historian Shannon Applegate | "The Whining and Dining of Lewis and Clark" by Dick Pintarich in Great and Minor Moments in Oregon History | "Turning Back the Calendar" by Oregon State University graduate student Travis L. Cox.
Departments
Letter from the Editor: Monuments to Nostalgia
From Readers
Posts: Readers Write about Nostalgia
Reviews: Marie Brenner's Apples & Oranges, David Carr's The Night of the Gun, Helene Cooper's The House at Sugar Beach, and Debra Gwartney's Live Through This.
Croppings: Tamastslikt Cultural Institute's exhibition The Art of Ceremony