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Kick Ass Oregon History Podcast
Kick Ass Oregon History’s Historic Portland Rock and Roll Walking Tour
In which we learn that Louie Louie really does have swears in it! ...
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Kick Ass Oregon History Podcast
KAOH 10.3 Book Club with Peter Boag
You can find Professor Boag’s book, Same-Sex Affairs: Constructing and Controlling Homosexuality in the Pacific Northwest right HERE! (We like to support local booksellers, but Powells was out of ...
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Kick Ass Oregon History Podcast
KAOH 10.2: The Whitman Deal
In which we learn that words have power. Be sure to click over to the history page for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. And be ...
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Charles A. Moose: Race, Community Policing, and Portland’s First African American Police Chief
The Resident Historian, Doug Kenck-Crispin, has written his master’s thesis (Portland State University, MA History) on Charles Moose, Portland’s first black police chief. To help you explore that ...
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“The Government is Hiding Dead Bigfoot Bodies!!”
If you came down to the Jack London Bar one cold January night in 2014, you might have seen a live show I performed where I talked about ...
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Kick Ass Oregon History Podcast
KAOH 10.1 The Beaver Police State
Real title: The Beaver Police State. Thanks to the City Club of Portland and the National Law Enforcement Museum for some of the audio in this episode. Here is ...
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Some Kick Ass Fall Walking Tours!
The leaves are all turning, the evenings are getting cooler and all the hipster tourists are headed back home and out of these much more rainy environs – so time for ...
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Catch You Some Oregon History This Week!
Seven days and three events. It will certainly be a busy week, and you’re bound to catch some Oregon History, one way or another. On Sunday the 11th, we’ll be ...
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The Death of Tom Peterson and Old Portland RIP
Yesterday, I went to the public viewing for the recently deceased Tom Peterson. Anna Marum did a great write up on his life here. Tom was laying there ...
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Columbia River Highway turns 100 – Oregon, Patriotism, and “Redface.”
Warning: There’s some disturbing racist shit to be found up in here. The Columbia River Highway turns 100 on June 7th, 2016! I wrote a little piece about ...
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