Now from portland, oregon, the tv takes a tour of Library Archives and special collections and of lewis and clark university. We are in portland, oregon, at the special collection in the law library upstairs in a reading room and today we will see a range of collection from our lewis and clark collection including material, not representative of the types of things they brought with them on the exposition to the Pacific Ocean, contemporary material that informed their decisions they undertook. We will see contemporary accounts of the expedition created almost immediately after they returned to washington and we will also see the legacy of the expedition, material that reflects upon the expedition from 100 to 150 years later and romanticizes the events of the exposition. I think they show us the developing relationship of americans with the idea of the west. We start with material reflecting upon the nature of adventuring and the unknown from the early night team 18th century and then m
Oregon politics and government we specifically chose part of that progressive conservative populace after we discussed it kind of what the state was like and actually its an edited volume and there are actually 14 different scholars involved and participating, considerate considerable discussion. We could have called it liberal versus conservative, but we felt that would not capture the character of what oregon is about. Oregon has long been known to be a progressive state and doing new things and going somewhere and that its using education in the best practices to try to develop policies that work well, so thats why we chose progressive rather than calling it liberal. We could call the rural parts of the state conservative. What we really want to emphasizes that during about a 22 met thirtyyear period a lot of the rhetoric from the conservative side of the state state was a populist rhetoric and to be honest oregon has had a lot of populism within the conservative side and liberal si
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State. One of the first examples of the legislative innovations was 1902 when the legislation created a system that allows the public to in writing laws and regulations and also in recalling elected officials, but here in oregon, our ballots are often very lengthy because not only do we vote for candidates, but we are also voting for a series of issues and referendums on ideas for policy and legislation. One of the most important ones that was passed back in 1912 was giving women the right to vote. Is of the Great Stories abigail who came across as a teenage girl and for more than half a century, she was oregons leading suffragette, fighting to give women the right to own property, fighting time and time again to give women the right to vote. Women not until 1912 when. Ot the right to vote the great story is that while abigail was doing all she could to get women the right to vote, one of the leading opponents was a fellow named harvey scott, abigails brother, and unfortunately for abi
Complexities of oregon politics. And with that conservative populism and that second part of that but after we discussed what it looks like it is the edited volume there are 14 with considerable discussion liberal verses conservative to capture a the to use education and to develop policies that work well and that is why we chose them. Had with those conservatives in what i really want to emphasize and a lot of rhetoric was very populist and then on the conservative side but then we have bad district head everybody should have a say end participate so we chose those trends with that type of conservatism and liberalism. And then with that machine and then to see that it was the republican machine it was all tied into the railroad and transportation industry. But it initially and many farmers began to feel that the government was not thinking about that. And with that urban middle class. And then as part of that progressive movement. And with those political reforms. But the most importa