The biannual Oral History Review (OHR) is the U.S. journal of record for the theory and practice of oral history and related fields. It is published by the Oral History Association housed at Baylor University. The current editor is Holly Werner-Thomas. You can reach her via email at holly@hollythomasoralhistory.com. For more information about the journal and to subscribe, see About the Oral History Review. To submit a research article, please see the Article Submission Guidelines. For inquiries regarding submitting reviews for our book and media sections, see Book and Media Review Submissions. And if you have an idea, notice, or question, for OHR Extra!, our online content publication, please contact the Media Review Editor Bud Kliment via email at ohrmedia@outlook.com.
About the latest volume (52.1)
With this spring’s issue of the Oral History Review, we are proud to feature a Special Section on Oral History and Disability, beginning with an important piece by scholars from Gallaudet University, Brian Greenwald and Jannelle Legg. Greenwald and Legg focus on both the historical and current problems of “oral” history, while providing solutions that should inspire new best practices. Our Special Section also includes articles on everything from scientists whose disabilities proved the catalyst for their innovative thinking, to historical neurodivergent perspectives from the U.K. to radical ways to try to capture neurodivergent perspectives beyond speech, the latter from scholar Nicki Pombier. Rounding out this section is our new “From the Archives” occasional feature, this first one on the Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement, and subsequent oral history project, from Berkeley, which has, ironically, become inaccessible. Not to be missed, though, are the three important articles that lead our spring issue, all of which consider the role of emotions in interviews, from the profound emotional impact on public health students in conducting oral histories, to that of researching sexual harassment and violence via interviews, to listening to historical oral histories. In the latter, Sumallya Mukhopadhyay, from the National Institute of Technology, Silchar, India, argues, “expands the interpretive space of oral history” beyond Alessandro Portelli’s well-known “inter-view” equation.
Note: OHA members receive digital access to the Oral History Review, current and past issues (back to 1973). Members can also opt in to receive print issues of the journal twice a year.*
- Individual Members
- Online access to the journal is available to individual members through the OHA member website. Members log in and select the OHR Online tab on the member menu to reach the OHR archive hosted by Routledge, Taylor & Francis. To join and receive the journal, visit the OHA member website.
- Institutional Subscribers
- Online access to the journal is available to institutional subscribers on the Routledge website.
*Several Oral History Review articles are also available through Open Access contracts. Look for the orange tab with the unlocked lock icon or search the Oral History Review via the “Open access articles” tab on the left-hand menu.
