Courage and Compassion: Japanese American Experience in WWII
July 14 - September 23, 2017 The Willamette Heritage Center is proud to announce it will host the debut of a new national traveling [...]
April 2017
May 2016
Memorial Day – Odd Fellows Rural Cemetery
Memorial Day observance at Odd Fellows Rural Cemetery circa 1885. WHC 1995.022.0003 “Cover them over with beautiful flowers, [...]
October 2014
Stories from Survivors Program coming to Willamette University
During WWII many Americans of Japanese ancestry were forcibly removed from their homes and incarcerated. Here the stories of some of those survivors of the [...]
Stories from Survivors Program coming to Willamette University
During WWII many Americans of Japanese ancestry were forcibly removed from their homes and incarcerated. Here the stories of some of those survivors of the [...]
July 2014
July 29, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent Once the dominos began to fall readers had difficulty keeping up with the news. The Capital Journal reported “The [...]
March 2011
WU Nisei Commemoration Set for April
During World War II, ten students were forced to leave Willamette University in Salem. All of them were American citizens [...]