President Taft Comes to Salem
This article about President Taft’s visit to Salem in 1911 was originally published in the Statesman Journal in August 2016. It is reproduced here with [...]
September 2016
April 2015
April 22, 1915
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent At the outbreak of the war the workforce was overwhelmingly male. In all sectors of the economy employing “breadwinners” [...]
January 2015
January 4, 1915
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent The Capital Journal reports that the Belgian relief fund is growing. It appears that county residents are of the consensus [...]
November 2013
Willkie-McNary for President? WHC 2004.026.0030
WHC Collections 2004.026.0030 This poster, depicting the presidential campaign by Wendell Willkie and Oregon politician and Salem native Charles Linza McNary in 1940, [...]