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Today is the publication day for the newly designed Alice Day Pratt classic "A Homesteader's Portfolio!"
In our Northwest Reprints series, this important work is now available from your favorite booksellers and directly from OSU Press!
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#Homesteading #AmericanWest #CentralOregon

15.10.2025 00:50 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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New from OSU Press this November is "Oregon Gold: A History of Mining from the Civil War into the Progressive Era" by William F. Willingham.
Order today. Publication date: November 18, 2025.
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#Oregon #Mining #Susanville #BakerCity #AmericanWest #GoldRush #OregonHistory

10.10.2025 17:24 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Grand Lodge Theater - Cheese War: Conflict and Courage in Tillamook County - McMenamins Pubs, Breweries and Historic Hotels

#ForestGrove: Are you looking to step out tonight?
@McMenamins Grand Lodge hosts #HistoryPub tonight at 7:00 pm with Marilyn Milne presenting "Cheese War: Conflict and Courage in Tillamook County."
All ages welcome. $5. Doors open at 6:00 pm.
Learn more at beav.es/xud.
#OregonHistory #ReadLocal

08.10.2025 23:35 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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OSU Press will be exhibiting at #WHA2025 in Albuquerque, NM!
Find us in the exhibit hall at booth no. 23. Hall hours are Thursday, October 16, and Friday, October 17, 8 am to 5 pm. And Saturday, October 18, 8 am to 11:30 am
Check out this year's titles online at osupress.oregonstate.edu/eve....

07.10.2025 22:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tami Parr visits #ThirdPlaceBooks at Lake Forest Park to talk about, what else, goats!!! 🐐❤️ 🐐
Celebrate the release of "Goats in America" and join the conversation on Thursday, October 9, at 7 pm.
Free and open to the public. RSVP at thirdplacebooks.com/event/ta....
#Goats #LocalBookEvents

03.10.2025 17:01 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Alan Wieder – Building Community Through Street Photography Alan Wieder – Building Community Through Street Photography Listen to the Podcast Here In this episode I speak with Alan Wieder, a street photographer, oral historian, and author whose book W…

#StreetPhotographyMagazine speaks with Alan Wieder about his new book "We Will Not Be Removed: The People of King School Park" on the SPM Podcast.
Take a listen: beav.es/xX4.
#PortlandOregon #Photography #Community #OralHistory

02.10.2025 18:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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New from OSU Press this October is the second edition of Ellen Morris Bishop's "Living with Thunder: Exploring the Geologic Past, Present, and Future of the Pacific Northwest."
Order today: Publication date: October 28, 2025.
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#NorthwestGeology #Oregon #Washington #Idaho

01.10.2025 21:21 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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How did housing in Bend become so expensive? Jonathan Bach joins the Exchange.

Author Jonathan Bach recently chatted with Jefferson Public Radio's (@jpradio.bsky.social) the #JeffersonExchange about his new book "High Desert, Higher Costs: Bend and the Housing Crisis of the American West."
Take a listen: beav.es/x76.
#HousingCrisis #Housing #Bend #CentralOregon

30.09.2025 00:04 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

OSU Press's "Portland's Audacious Champion!" included in this week's @wweek.com book picks!

"I’ve been especially inspired by the reading about the life and legacy of Bill Naito. Reading 'Portland’s Audacious Champion' is a powerful reminder of what makes Portland special..."

25.09.2025 21:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Saving the Big Sky | Montana Natural History Center

Tonight in #Missoula at 6 pm, authors Bruce A. Bugbee, Robert J. Kiesling, and John B. Wright will present on their book "Saving the Big Sky" at the Montana Natural History Center (@mtnaturalist.bsky.social) with a book signing with Fact & Fiction Books to follow.
Register at beav.es/xeN.

24.09.2025 17:00 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy Publication Day to Stephen Forrester!!!
"Richard Neuberger: Oregon Politics and the Making of a US Senator" is now available from your favorite booksellers and directly from OSU Press!
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#OregonHistory #OregonPolitics #PoliticalBiography #RichardNeuberger #USSenator #Conservation

23.09.2025 23:54 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Even if you missed the event last week, it's not too late to pick up a copy of Tami Parr's "Goats in America." 🐐
"The book . . . is information dense, so much so that the weight of information would be difficult to digest were it not that Parr’s writing style is so crisp and conversational."

22.09.2025 15:42 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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New blog post features Tami Parr, author of "Goats in America."
"Why not goats? Once I started looking around for information about goats, I was surprised to find that there is not much published material out there about the animals." —Tami Parr
Read more: beav.es/xP8

18.09.2025 14:28 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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OSU Press is elated that "High Desert, Higher Costs" by Jonathan Bach is selected for the shortlist in #SABEW 's sixth annual Best in Business Book Awards!
Congratulations, Jonathan! 🎉🎉🎉
See the complete shortlist at beav.es/xPH.
#BestBusinessBooks #ReadLocal #ReadUP

17.09.2025 17:04 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy Publication Day to Alan Wieder!
"We Will Not Be Removed: The People of King School Park" is now available from your favorite booksellers and directly from OSU Press.
Published by the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission.
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#PortlandOregon #Photography #OralHistory #NorthPortland

17.09.2025 01:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In case you missed it, the recording of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society's event with Stephen Forrester is now available. Visit beav.es/xPS to watch it.
#OregonHistory #OregonPolitics #PoliticalBiography #RichardNeuberger #USSenator #Conservation

15.09.2025 23:23 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Congratulations to Elizabeth Mehren!
"I Lived to Tell the World: Stories from Survivors of Holocaust, Genocide, and the Atrocities of War" (copublished with #TheImmigrantStory is named a a 2025 NYC BIG BOOK AWARD DISTINGUISHED FAVORITE in the category of Cultural and Social issues. 📙🏆🎉
beav.es/xdU

12.09.2025 20:18 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Happy Publication Day to Tami Parr (@pdxia.bsky.social)!
"Goats in America: A Cultural History" is now available from your favorite booksellers and directly from OSU Press!
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#Goats #USHistory #Read Local #ReadUP

10.09.2025 00:00 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you @orartswatch.org. This is a great piece on Stephen Forrester's new book!

"Forrester clearly admires Neuberger, and has done an impressive decades-long research job, but does not intrude with assertive judgments, letting the story speak for itself." —Oregon ArtsWatch

09.09.2025 19:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#FranklinFOTO is pleased to have Alan Wieder’s work, "We Will Not Be Removed: The People of King School Park" as their September exhibition. To launch the exhibit, they will host a book release party Saturday, September 6, 5 pm – 8 pm. Visit www.franklinfoto.org/events to learn more. 🎉📖📸

05.09.2025 22:00 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Attn: #PortlandOregon. Mark your calendar! Portland author Tami Parr launches her book "Goats in America: A Cultural History" at @powells.bsky.social on Hawthorne.
Thursday, September 18th, 7:00 pm
Visit beav.es/xMc to preorder and learn more about this author event.
#Goats #USHistory #ReadLocal

05.09.2025 00:43 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Join the United States Capitol Historical Society for an exciting discussion of Stephen Forrester’s book, "Richard Neuberger: Oregon Politics and the Making of a US Senator."
Thursday, September 4. Zoom, 12 pm ET/9 am PT.
Learn more and register at beav.es/xgN.
#OregonPolitics #Biography #USSenator

03.09.2025 21:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Alan Wieder

Alan Wieder will be at #BroadwayBooks, in #PortlandOregon tomorrow, September 3, at 6:00 pm, to share "We Will Not Be Removed"—a project that showcases a community, which, against all odds, continues to persevere.
Visit the website to learn more: beav.es/xYM.
#Photography #Community #NorthPortland

02.09.2025 21:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes! Tami Parr's new book "Goats in America: A Cultural History" is in stock and available from all of your favorite booksellers. Ask about it today! 🐐📖❤️

02.09.2025 17:02 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Join Jonathan Bach for an in conversation event with Peter Madsen about his groundbreaking book, "High Desert, Higher Cost."
#RoundaboutBookshop in Bend, Oregon, Thursday, September 4, 6:30 pm.
Tickets for this event are $5 general admission or book purchase.
Visit beav.es/xfL to learn more.

29.08.2025 22:00 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Photographer Alan Wieder talks about his new book "We Will Not Be Removed: The People of King School Park" with Joseph Gallivan this week on #KBOOArtFocus
Wieder talks about photographing people in the park in gentrified Northeast Portland.
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#PortlandOregon #Photography #Community

28.08.2025 02:05 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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New from OSU Press this October is a new release of Alice Day Pratt's classic memoir, "A Homesteader's Portfolio."
Preorder today. Publication date: October 14, 2025.
beav.es/xxY
#Homesteader #AmericanWest #CentralOregonHistory #Women #Memoir

27.08.2025 00:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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It's nice to see early praise for "Richard Neuberger: Oregon Politics and the Making of a US Senator" on social.
‪@nickkristof.bsky.social wrote on X: "Bravo to Stephen Forrester on his powerful new biography of Neuberger, a luminous portrait of a pioneering journalist, commentator and senator."🌲❤️

22.08.2025 21:37 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The OSU Press office is goated with excitement over the early arrival of this fall's "Goats in America: A Cultural History" by Tami Parr. 🐐❤️🎉And (spoiler) one of these very stuffies is featured on page 5 of the Introduction.
❗Preorder from your favorite bookseller today❗
#Goats #USHistory #ReadUP

19.08.2025 23:18 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

Char Miller, author of "Burn Scars: A Documentary History of Fire Suppression, from Colonial Origins to the Resurgence of Cultural Burning" talks about California wildfires on #TheAcademicMinute during Pomona College Week.🔥

18.08.2025 20:56 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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