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Join Professor of History, Jacob Hamblin and History Senior Instructor, Linda Richards for a conversation on their new book Making the Unseen Visible: Science and the Contested Histories of Radiation Exposure. Hamblin and Richards will also engage participants with original primary sources on radiation exposure from the nuclear history collections in the Special Collections and Archives Research Center of the Valley Library.

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The Valley Library, Fifth Floor, Special Collections Archives and Records Center, 201 SW Waldo Place, Corvallis, OR 97331

Oregon resident Mitzi Asai Loftus and her son, David Loftus, will discuss her journey as a Japanese American during the 1940s internment camps to a successful career as a teacher. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hear from a historian born on the cusp of The Greatest Generation and The Silent Generation. See website for details.

Roundabout Books & Cafe 900 NW Mt. Washington Drive #110 Bend, OR 97703

Third Place Books is delighted to welcome Mitzi Asai Loftus and David Loftus to their Ravenna store! The mother/son duo will be discussing their new book, From Thorns to Blossoms: A Japanese American Family in War and Peace, a remarkable story of a transformation from thorns into blossoms, pain into healing. This event is free and open to the public.

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Third Place Books Ravenna 6504 20th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115

Join us for an unforgettable evening with the remarkable author Mitzi Asai Foftus as she discusses her powerful memoir From Thorns to Blossoms. Mitzi's memoir details her profound experiences interned as a Japanese American during WWII, offering a personal and unique perspective on a dark chapter in American history. See website for details.

Eagle Harbor Book Co. 157 Winslow Way E Bainbridge Island, WA 98110

A conversation with author Johanna Ogden and Dr. Katy Barber.

Oregon is commonly perceived to have little, let alone notable, South Asian history. Yet in the early 1900s, Oregon was at the center of two entwined quests for Indian independence and civic belonging that rocked the world. Punjabi Rebels of the Columbia River traces the stories of the radical Indian independence organization known as Ghadar and Bhagat Singh Thind’s era-defining U.S. Supreme Court citizenship case. Ghadar sought the overthrow of India’s British colonizers while Thind utilized sanctioned legal channels to do so. Despite widely differing strategies, both Ghadar and Thind were targeted, often in coordination, by the highest levels of the U.S. and British governments. The empires’ united message: India would not be an independent country and Indians could not be citizens. In the decades that followed, it was a verdict Indians refused to abide.

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Oregon Historical Society, 1200 SW Park Ave Portland, Oregon 97205