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OHR Extra! is an open-access online publication produced by the current Oral History Review team. It complements the journal by extending the conversations we are having in the Review and aims to support the oral history community at large by inviting coverage of topics, news, projects, and events important to the field. Extra! will be updated regularly throughout the year. To contact us with a notice or idea for Extra!, please email our Media Review Editor, Bud Kliment, @ OHRMedia@outlook.com.
The Latest from OHR Extra!
Extra! Congratulates OHR Authors on Their 2025 OHA Article Awards
Three OHR authors/articles were awarded the top prizes for Best Article at the 2025 OHA Annual Meeting: This article describes Professor Chansky’s collaborative undergraduate oral history projects that worked with…
Extra! salutes the 2025 winners of OHA’s Mason Multi-Media Awards
Announced by the OHA at their annual meeting in Atlanta, the Mason Multi-Media awards recognize “outstanding oral history projects, collections, exhibits, and multimedia presentations for the public.” According to Yolanda…
Q&A with the Commission of Deaf, DeafBlind, and Hard of Hearing Minnesotans (MNCDHH) Oral-Visual History Project
Q: Tell us about documenting the history of Minnesota’s deaf, deafblind, and hard of hearing community through oral-visual history. A: Although this community has a long and rich history in Minnesota,…
Considering Alice Wong’s Disability Visibility through an Oral History Lens
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century (Vintage Books, 2020) is a collection of essays and other writings by disabled people. This is not a book of oral histories…