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The Oregon Heritage Commission, the State Library of Oregon, and Washington State Library teamed up on the project. It allows libraries, museums, and cultural heritage groups to digitize and share their collections for a wider audience than they’d receive individually.
“So it’s very easy and accessible by the everyday public or researcher or historian, that wants to look for information, explained Katie Henry is coordinator for the Oregon Heritage Commission. Being a service hub for the Digital Public Libraries of America, it’s a national platform. So Oregon’s great history can be accessed by people across the entire nation.”
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Wednesday, May 5, 2021
As the former president of the progressive think tank, Demos, Heather McGhee spent 20 years looking for solutions to economic inequality and other big social problems before realizing she was hitting the same wall. That wall came to be defined by the question, “In America, why can’t we just have nice things?” such as reliable and modern infrastructure, universal healthcare, or well-funded, state-of-the-art schools all social components that seem like they would be no-brainers in the wealthiest nation in the world.
Her new book,
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, grew from this question and the realization that lasting change was more likely to come from shifts in public opinion rather than policy alone, embarking McGhee (pictured) on a personal journey into the hearts of Americans to reveal the falsehoods of the zero-sum game that has limited our collective vision of what we can be to o
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