Commemorating Fort Vancouver’s 200th through Historical Archaeology

Name: Commemorating Fort Vancouver’s 200th through Historical Archaeology
Start: 2025-03-15T13:00:00-07:00
Location: 1501 E. Evergreen Blvd., Vancouver, WA, United States, Washington 98661

Schedule

Sat, 15 Mar, 2025 at 01:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

1501 E. Evergreen Blvd., Vancouver, WA, United States, Washington 98661 | Vancouver, WA

This event is FREE but please register to attend. Space is limited.
This talk explores the role of historical archaeology in illuminating the confluence of people, places, and events that shaped the history of the Pacific Northwest. Using documents, Indigenous oral traditions, and the material record, Wilson will explore the central role of Fort Vancouver in the region’s history from the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries. He concludes with some thoughts on how we can best commemorate the bicentennial of the Fort Vancouver.

Douglas C. Wilson (Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1991) is an archaeologist and adjunct associate professor at Portland State University, who has explored the historical archaeology of the Pacific Northwest for over 30 years. Among his awards are the 2011 John L. Cotter Award for Excellence in National Park Service Archeology and the 2016 Society for Historical Archaeology’s Diversity Field School Competition Award. He has published in many academic books and journals with his most recent book released in December 2024, the Historical Archaeology of the Pacific Northwest, part of the American Experience in Archaeological Perspective series by the University Press of Florida.
Doug's latest book will be available for sale in our bookstore/gallery by the day of the event: The Historical Archaeology of the Pacific Northwest (discounted for our visitors from $90 to $65.)
Please join us!