History Pub: Oregon’s Others: Gender, Civil Liberties, and the Surveillance State Presented by Kim Jensen

McMenamins Edgefield 
Blackberry Hall
Monday February 10th, 2025 
Program 7pm, Doors 6pm – All ages welcome.

Before and after WWI, the quest to identify, restrict, and punish internal enemy “others,” combined with eugenic thinking, severely curtailed civil liberties for many people in Oregon and the nation. Professor Kimberly Jensen will share research from her new book, Oregon’s Others: Gender, Civil Liberties, and the Surveillance State in the Early Twentieth Century, through the lens of gender, gender identity and presentation, ability, race, ethnicity, and class. 

Kimberly Jensen is professor of history and gender studies at Western Oregon University and a member of the executive and editorial boards of the Oregon Encyclopedia of History and Culture. She is the author of Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War and Oregon’s Doctor to the World: Esther Pohl Lovejoy and a Life in Activism.