Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Keyword
-
- African American women -- History -- 19th century -- Study and teaching (1)
- African American women -- Oregon -- 19th century (1)
- Black women -- History -- 19th century -- Study and teaching (1)
- Black women -- Oregon -- 19th century (1)
- Collective memory (1)
-
- Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) (1)
- Historical museums -- Oregon -- Portland -- Exhibitions (1)
- Holocaust memorials -- United States (1)
- Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945) (1)
- Letitia Carson ( -1888) -- Study and teaching (1)
- Museum objects (1)
- Museums -- Collection management -- Oregon – Portland (1)
- Oregon (Battleship) -- History (1)
- Oregon Historical Society (1)
- Philippines -- History -- Philippine American War (1899-1902) -- Antiquities (1)
- Public history (1)
- Spanish-American War (1898) – Antiquities (1)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (1)
Articles 1 - 3 of 3
Full-Text Articles in Museum Studies
Myths, Museums, Mothers, And The Power Of Letitia Carson, Hailey Brink
Myths, Museums, Mothers, And The Power Of Letitia Carson, Hailey Brink
University Honors Theses
Letitia Carson was a trailblazing Black Oregon pioneer woman whose life offered remarkable and unprecedented departures from the white pioneer status quo. Letitia's story presents numerous points at which she could be heralded for her successes; her pregnant journey across the Overland Trail, giving birth in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains, cultivating and maintaining two separate homesteads, challenging and conquering two lawsuits against administrator Greenberry Smith, her midwifery and community involvement, and lastly, becoming the first Black woman to own land in Oregon in 1862. And yet, her story fell to obscurity, only to be revived nearly a century …
Curating Conflict: The Material Record Of The Philippine-American War At The Oregon Historical Society, Silvie M. Andrews
Curating Conflict: The Material Record Of The Philippine-American War At The Oregon Historical Society, Silvie M. Andrews
Dissertations and Theses
1898 marked the beginning of U.S. colonialism in the Philippines and the formation of the Oregon Historical Society (OHS), an organization that would later inherit a vast collection of Philippine and Spanish war booty from the defunct Battleship Oregon Museum. This thesis will explore the meaning of this war booty by recreating the context around its collection, accession, interpretation, and later descent into obscurity, drawing on the Battleship Oregon Collection of the OHS Research Library and institutional records of the OHS Museum as well as secondary sources that explore the colonial context around museum collecting. The first chapter will show …
Methods Of Memorialization: Holocaust Commemoration In The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Kylee Bolinger
Methods Of Memorialization: Holocaust Commemoration In The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Kylee Bolinger
University Honors Theses
Memorials, both formal and informal, both private and public, have long participated in the pursuit to honor the victims of tragedy, disaster, or genocide. Memorial museums serve both to memorialize victims and to foster an environment conducive to reflection and education about these stories. Such memorial museums have especially made their mark after one of the most notable and devastating genocide events in history: the Holocaust in twentieth-century Europe. This thesis examines how memorialization methods utilized by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) make up the American interpretation of Vergangenheitsbewältigung, the concept typically applied to how Germans deal …