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We designed the Community Support Space series to facilitate discussion about the issues and concerns all of you, the OHA community, are currently facing, and any opportunities on the horizon. For the next open forum, we’re giving special attention to people working on regional oral history projects or who are in regional oral history groups. […]

Planning to attend the 2025 OHA Annual Meeting in Atlanta? Whether you’re presenting, not presenting, or joining us from outside the U.S., you can apply to our scholarship funding to help offset the cost of attending. We offer three types of scholarships: OHA encourages applications from students, professionals, and community practitioners from a wide range

On June 6th during the opening remarks of the Oral History Society’s 2025 Annual Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, OHS Chair John Gabriel presented to OHA Associate Director Steven Sielaff a Statement of Support on behalf of the trustees and members of the Oral History Society. In this statement, OHS (the leading heritage organization for oral

Join our virtual roundtable conversation on teaching oral history! Get practical advice from teachers who have experimented with bringing oral history into their classrooms. We’ll discuss a range of options, from having students analyze an existing oral history interview to creating opportunities for students to conduct their own interviews. Our goal is for participants to

✰ Oral History & IRB Review | Oral History & The Law Webinar #1 ✰Tuesday, June 243 – 4:30 pm ESTon Zoom As a follow-up to the popular session from the OHA Annual Meeting in Cincinnati last fall, Jay-Marie Bravent and Doug Boyd will continue the community conversation focused on current trends in oral history

Whether you’re presenting, not presenting, or from outside the U.S., you can request funding from the OHA to help offset the cost of attending the 2025 Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA. NOTE: THE DEADLINE FOR ALL ANNUAL MEETING SCHOLARSHIPS HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO JUNE 27, 2025 (11:59 PM CDT). ✰ OHA Annual Meeting 2025 ✰Exploring

Have you conducted an oral history project in the past 10 years at an institution with an Institutional Review Board? The Oral History Association is running a survey to gather information on how the operations of IRBs are currently impacting oral history research. Please share your experiences in our survey, which will be open through

To supplement this spring’s issue of the Oral History Review, which features a Special Section on Oral History and Disability, we present in Extra! two project-based posts, and an author interview. The Author Interview is with Nora Ellen Groce, author of the book featured in our Classics Revisited column, Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha’s Vineyard.