HERE'S WHAT YOU MISSED THIS 2025-2026 SEASON: 

Sarah Cantor, Pierce V. Society of Sisters: The Fight for Private School Education in Oregon

Mari Panovich, The FBI in Oregon - CANCELED 

Dr. Stephen Beckham, Power, Politics, and Public Access: The Contested History of Oswego Lake

Dede Montgomery, Memory, History and the Enduring Power of Place

Courtney Clements and Angie Baker, Oswego Pioneer Cemetery: Remembering Dead Strangers

Dr. Scott Burns, Earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest: Are You Ready for the Big One?

Kay Demlow, Porch Time: Home Life and Leisure in the Early 20th Century 

2020

Dr. Stephen Beckham, Studies in Climate Concerns

Cece Otto, Release of WWI album

Angel Ocasio, History of Ukelele and Performance

2021

Zachary Stocks, Oregon's Black History 

Paul Lyons, Springbrook Park and its Women

Stephanie Wagner, Tryon Creek

Mike Goodrich, 400 mil yrs of Oswego History (Geology)

2022

Dr. Stephen Beckham, Theodore Roosevelt and TR Library

Kim Hewey, Beginnings of Chautauqua

R. Gregory Nokes, Massacre for Gold

Cece Otto, Songs from America's Past

Nancy Dunis, Eva Emory Dye

2023

Katie Henry, Preserving Your Heritage

Courtney Clements, Local Diaries

Dr. Stephen Beckham, Sewing Seeds for Today and Tomorrow: Oregon Indian Tribal Economies

Charlene Green, If Walls Could Talk

Cece Otto, Prohibition: 90 Years of Temperance, Temptation and Song

Doyeon Lim, Arirang: Korean Folk Songs on Kayageum

Linda Holden, My Great-Grandmother, Mrs. Margaret Henderson, Pioneer Entrepreneur

Dr. Stephen Beckham, Whistle Punks and Misery Whips: Logging the Willamette Valley, 1850 to 1960

2024

David Charvet, The History and Mystery of Magic

The Family Archivists, Preserving Your Family's Legacy

Dr. David Campion, The Transformation of Modern India

Kathryn Sinor, All My Love to You, Charlie Boy: A Story from the OHC Archives

Dr. Sylvia Gray, Ask the Ancients: Astonishing Advice for Daily Dilemmas 

Chris Petersen, Linus Pauling in Portland, China and Beyond

Amy Behrens, The Maryhill Museum of Art

Courtney Clements and Kathryn Sinor, Oswego Suffragists: A Force for Change 

2025

Shelley Baker-Gard, Michael Freiling, and Satsuki Takikawa, They Never Asked: Senryū Poetry from WWII 

Darrell Jabin, Before the Show Began: Theaters of Oregon 

In Collaboration with LO Reads, Portland Books Through Bars

Allen Luong & Others, Songs from Vietnam