Project Showcase: Beyond Footnotes

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Beyond Footnotes logo. Screenshot credit: Department of History, Portland State College

Beyond Footnotes is a history-themed podcast sponsored by Portland State University’s Department of History. The goal of the project is to move conversations about history from the hallways to the airwaves.

The bi-weekly program debuted on the campus radio station, KPSU, in October 2015. Co-creators and hosts Joshua Justice and Ryan Wisnor, both PSU students, conceived of Beyond Footnotes as a forum for local historians to share their work with each other and with the community. In addition to the live radio broadcast, Beyond Footnotes is also archived on the Department of History’s website.

On the most recent episode, Melissa Lang­–who recently received an M.A. in history from PSU–discussed her study of women’s civil rights activism in twentieth-century Portland. Lang conducted her thesis research in the Verdell Burdine & Otto G. Rutherford Collection housed at PSU. The collection documents one hundred years of African American life and culture in Oregon from the 1880s-1980s. Lang is the current Oregon Women’s History Consortium fellow and secretary of the executive committee of the Portland NAACP. Listen to this episode and their complete archive here or on iTunes. Beyond Footnotes is also on Twitter and Facebook.

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