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The Welcome Project at Valparaiso University, supported by a $100,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, is creating an interactive documentary website to engage users in oral histories of Northwest Indiana residents while also educating them about historical circumstances that shaped those residents and their decisions. This survey is for academic research purposes. […]

The Oral History Association is going to Cuba! December 13 – 20, 2019! *** The OHA is aware of recent US policy changes regarding travel to Cuba- our trip has not been cancelled. Cuba is a country unlike any other in the world, and our members have chronicled its complicated history, politics, and culture for

  Call for Posters Oral History Association 2019 Annual Meeting October 16-19, 2019 Salt Lake City, Utah The online submission portal is available here. See the full Call for Posters for more information.   The Oral History Association (OHA) is now accepting submissions for a poster session and project bazaar that will be held at the

Tom Charlton, father, grandfather, husband, teacher, historian, died January 25, 2019, in Fort Worth, Texas. A memorial service will be held at Lake Shore Baptist Church in Waco, Texas, in the near future. Thomas Lee Charlton was born December 18, 1936, in Helena, Arkansas, to Marie Zola Broussard and Thomas Ogden Charlton, and he was

We are making some behind the scenes changes to the website, and as a result things may appear differently or out of place. We are in the process of correcting any mistakes. Please bear with us during this time. Thank you!OHA

The Amplified Initiative, a grant from the Organization of American Historians, extends the impact of a conference panel session beyond the limitations of the usual OAH conference by asking partner organizations to develop material, based on those panels, that will be shared with each partner’s specific audience. The OHA is glad to join this project and has developed

Dear colleagues, For the past year, the Oral History Association Metadata Task Force has been conducting Phase 2 of our survey about current oral history metadata and description practices. We will close the survey at the end of February, and we want to be sure to hear from you before then! We recognize that the

Natalie Fousekis is Director of the Lawrence de Graaf Center for Oral and Public History (COPH) and Professor of History. She specializes in modern U.S. History, grassroots politics, women’s history, and oral history. Natalie has been engaged in oral history work for almost twenty-five years — conducting dozens of interviews, teaching oral history methodology to undergraduate

The OHA has written a letter in response to the potential closing of the University of Iowa Labor Center. Read the letter here.

  The Oral History Review, the official journal of the Oral History Association, is accepting applications for an open position on the editorial team, the Copy- and Production Editor. The successful applicant will join the five-member editorial team of the Review and will participate actively in the development of the journal. The editorial team—a creative