The John Spellman Library

Week 2

• The Frontier West as Image of American Society 1776-1860
• Landscape and Environment

Week 3

• Angus McDonald, Frontier Fur Trader
• Two Roads to Conversion
• "Beaver Are Numerous, but the Natives...Will Not Hunt Them"

Week 4

• Slaves and Freemen: Blacks in the Oregon Country, 1840-1860
• Michael Luark and Settler Culture in the Western Pacific Northwest, 1853-1899
• James Saules, Peter Burnett, and the Oregon Black Exclusion Law of June 1844
• "Dixie" of the Pacific Northwest: Southern Oregon's Civil War

Week 5

• Big Lumber in the Inland Empire: The Early Years, 1900-1930
• Nineteenth-Century Chinese and the Environment of the Pacific Northwest
• The Nez Perce and Their War
• Railroad Labor Protests, 1894-1917

Week 6

• Blacks and the Coal Mines of Western Washington, 1888-1896
• "The Chinese Must Go"
• Farmer-Labor Insurgency in Washington State
• Politics and Ideology

Week 7

• The Black Hole of Seattle
• Police Response to Labor Radicalism in Portland and Seattle, 1913-19
• Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
• Wesley Everest, IWW Martyr

Week 8

• Building a West Coast Ghetto
• "I'll Wreck the Town if It Will Give Employment"
• Bloody Sunday Revisited
• "Midnight Justice"
• Violence at Centralia, 1919
• Hunting Reds in Oregon, 1935-1939

Week 9

• The Seattle Time's Cold War Pulitzer Prize
• After Cool Deliberation
• Clio Confronts Conformity
• Redress for Nisei Public Employees in Washington State after World War II
• With All Deliberate Caution

Week 10

• Hanford and Its Early Radioactive Atmospheric Releases
• Republican Apostate
• "Does Portland Need a Homophile Society"
• The Right Side of the 1960's