The authors of "Eminent Oregonians" are from left, R. Gregory Nokes, Jane Kirkpatrick and Steve Forrester.

The Deschutes County Historical Society will host a live virtual discussion of the new book “Eminent Oregonians” Tuesday evening, a live event featuring authors R. Gregory Nokes, Jane Kirkpatrick and Steve Forrester (CEO of EO Media Group, parent company of The Bulletin) in conversation with Bulletin editor Gerry O’Brien and Kelly Cannon-Miller, director of the Deschutes Historical Museum.

Bend-based historical novelist Kirkpatrick will describe her chapter about Oregon suffragist Abigail Scott Duniway, who wrote several novels and was among a handful of women worldwide who founded a newspaper, in her case The New Northwest.

Former newspaper publisher and columnist Forrester will present Richard Neuberger, a writer and politician of the first half of the 20th century. Though he’s all but been forgotten, in 1954, Neuberger was the first Democrat in 40 years to be elected to the U.S. Senate in 40 years, and he was the second Jewish person elected to the Senate by popular vote, after the enactment of the 17th Amendment.

Historian Nokes will discuss Jesse Applegate, who opposed slavery in the Oregon Constitutional Convention. Applegate was a trail blazer in the literal sense, creating the Applegate Trail.

All three of the Oregonians were considered iconoclasts in their day. In a review of the book, Pulitzer Prize winner Nicholas Kristof said: “This is history that is sometimes painful as well as inspiring. But it’s always riveting!”

The presentation starts at 5:45 p.m. at youtube.com/bendbulletin, starting with a brief look at the upcoming pictorial history book “Hello Bend!” which chronicles Central Oregon life from the 1950s to 2000.