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Shared Narratives: The Story of the 1942 Attack on Fort Stevens
During the evening of June 21, 1942, a Japanese submarine opened fire on Battery Russell at Fort Stevens, the Army's southern-most defense at the mouth of the Columbia River. Rather than playing into the hysteria the Japanese hoped to generate among the American population, U.S. Government an media organizations cooperated on voluntary domestic media censorship effort to “present a narrative that minimized danger, encouraged diligence, and enforced perceptions of calm among the coastal population that further minimized the threat.” Newspaper editors chose to focus on narratives that prioritized diligence rather than panic, and reports on the attack accentuated the positive. “Fort Stevens' story involves questions of narrative rather than outright restriction of information,” and “the dominant reaction to the attack…was that of dismissal.”
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Planning for a Productive Paradise: Tom McCall and the Conservationist Tale of Oregon Land-Use Policy
Governor Thomas Lawson McCall is remembered by many as a larger-than-life figure who made a mark on the Oregon landscape with his strong land-use planning legislation. Laura Jane Gifford explores that legacy from a new angle through an argument that McCall's vision was tied “to the Republican Party politics of the Progressive Era…. emphasiz[ing] wise use and careful planning to generateprogressin place of mere growth.” Gifford documents how McCall successfully implement land-use policies in Oregon that ultimately failed nationally.
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