News & Events

This web site introduces the history of child adoption in the United States. It highlights people, organizations, topics, and studies
that shaped adoption theory and practice during the twentieth century. It includes numerous short descriptions, images, document
excerpts, and bibliographic resources.

This Project has been designed to provide interactive and animated representations of fundamental historical problems and/or
illustrations of historical events, developments, and dynamics.

RECENT AWARDS

Daniel Pope has been awarded an Oregon Humanities Center Research Fellowship for fall 2008 to pursue his work on James Rorty,
whose papers are held by knight Library.

Jim Mohr has been named Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Science in recognition of his outstanding contributions to scholarship
and to the university.

Jeff Ostler has been awarded an Oregon Humanities Center Research Fellowship to pursue his project, "The Question of Genocide in
U.S. History, 1776-1890".

Randall McGowen received an NEH grant for 2005-06 for his project on forgery and capital punishment in England, 1700-1840.

Peggy Pascoe has been named an Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer.

James Mohr received the Francis Fuller Victor Prize, one of the Oregon Book Awards, for his book Plague and Fire:
Battling Black Death andthe 1900 Burning of Honolulu's Chinatown, published by Oxford University Press in 2004.

Jeff Ostler received the Caughey Western History Prize for his book The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from
Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee, published by Cambridge University Press in 2004.

Martin Summers received the American Historical Association's Pacific Coast Branch award for his book Manliness and
Its Discontents: The Black Middle Class & The Transformation of Masculinity, 1900-1930, published by the University of
North Carolina Press in 2004.

LECTURE

Professor Martin Jay (University of California/Berkeley) will deliver the History Department's annual Stan and Joan Pierson lecture this year.
He will speak on "The Virtues of Mendacity: On Lying in Politics" on Thursday, May 15 at 3:30 in Gerlinger Lounge. This event is sponsored
by the Pierson Lecture fund with support from the Oregon Humanities Center.