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PSU Hoffman Hall
1833 S\W 11th Ave
Portland, Oregon
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Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
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The PSU Friends of History is honored to present the distinguished historian Sir David Cannadine, who will be giving the 2010 Endowed lecture in History on Friday, April 30, 2010, starting at 7pm. Sir Cannadine has written and edited several award-winning books on the great World War II statesman, Winston Churchill, and the topic of his lecture is "Churchill, Anglo-America and the "Special Relationship" The lecture is free and open to the public. There is a reception before the lecture and a booksigning after Sir Cannadine's speech. More information is available at http://www.history.pdx.edu/foh/FOHevents.htm, or you can check out our blog at http://psufriendsofhistory.blogspot.com/
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Friends of History at Portland State University |
The PSU Friends of History is the non-profit support organization for the
Department of History at Portland State University. Now in its 27th year of service to the PSU community and to the city; the Friends of History presents or co-sponsors several free programs each year in addition to the annual Endowed Lecture in History which is held in the Spring term.
The 2009-2010 season will be the FOH's busiest season of offering free programs to students, scholars and the general public , as two dozen prgrams will have been produced or co-sponsored by Summer 2010. The most recent roster includes: the inaugural exhibition of Dorothea Lange's 1939 Photographs of Rural Oregon in the Great Depression, the PSU premier of Ivy Lin's documentary on Portland's early chinese imigrants "Come Together Home', a salute to the Japanese-American veterans of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team in World War II, an Environmental History Forum held at PSU, a special program on the History of American Space Exploration held on the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo 13 Mission, a special program on the last Queen of Hawaii, Lili'uokalani by Elinor Langer, a survey of Early Norwegian shipbuilding and discovery, a very special "Juneteenth" event and more.
The Friends of History is a charter member of the Oregon Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and a proud supporter of the Oregon Historical Society. Our volunteers use our history-based events and outreach to elucidate and empower the public and we have forged many working coalitions to achieve this goal. |
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