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New OHR Blog Post: “Oral History’s Role in Preserving Palestinian History”
Check out the OHR’s New Blog Post: “Oral History’s Role in Preserving Palestinian History“ In this week’s post, Rosemarie Esber discusses how oral history has served a vital role in preserving Palestinian voices during the post-1948 period. Here she recounts some of her experiences interviewing Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.
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SOHA’s Latest Newsletter
Check out the Southwest Oral History Association’s (SOHA) Summer 2018 Newsletter!
Executive Co-Directors Report
By Kris McCusker and Louis Kyriakoudes The executive office’s transition from Georgia State University to Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), in practical terms, is almost complete. We’ve finished the transfer of monies, changed the addresses of the various accounts, have purchased much-needed insurance and have even found the coffee pot. But the transition in
President’s Letter
#MeToo and the OHA By Todd Moye OHA Council has been busy over the past few months addressing the issue of sexual harassment in the organization. I wish I could report that we began these discussions proactively, but in reality we were forced into this conversation. In January a new member alleged that another OHA
OHA 2018 Call For Posters
The OHA 2018 Call for Posters is now available. The submission portal can be found at OHA 2018. The deadline is July 31, 2018, but submissions will be viewed and accepted on a rolling basis.
We need your help to review books for the Oral History Review
By Nancy MacKay, Book Review Editor Did you know that the Oral History Review, the journal of the Oral History Association, publishes 30-40 book reviews in every issue? And that each book reviewed first must be identified as relevant to oral history; then read, analyzed and written about by volunteer scholars in the OHA
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Pioneering oral historian who documented deaf experiences dies at 79
John S. Schuchman, the hearing son of deaf parents who was among the pioneers of oral history interviewing with deaf people, died of cancer Dec. 19, 2017. He was 79. Schuchman, a longtime member of the Oral History Association and Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region (OHMAR), began his academic
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Volunteer an hour to help transform understanding of metadata practices for oral history
By Jaycie Vos, OHA Publications Committee and Metadata Task Force The Oral History Association Metadata Task Force is charged with improving access and discovery for oral history interviews by helping their creators and caretakers improve the capture and preservation of the interviews’ metadata. The task force saw the need for more structured information to offer
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Co-Executive Directors’ Letter
By Louis M. Kyriakoudes and Kristine McCusker The last few months have seen a whirlwind of activity as we have overseen the move of OHA’s former home at Georgia State University to its new home here at Middle Tennessee State University. We’ve attended to many details, from setting up the new office here at MTSU’s Peck
President’s Column
By Todd Moye As you know, OHA is a little over one month into a major transition. Our executive offices have moved across the state line from Georgia State University to Middle Tennessee State University, where Kris McCusker and Louis Kyriakoudes have taken over as co-executive directors and Faith Bagley is our new program associate.
OHA joins the AHA and other scholarly organizations in denouncing Poland’s legislation criminalizing statements discussing Polish complicity in Nazi war crimes and the Holocaust
The Oral History Association joins the American Historical Association in condemning Poland’s recently enacted legislation making it illegal to publicly discuss Polish complicity in Nazi war crimes. The law is a direct attack on free speech and scholarly inquiry. For Oral Historians, it is especially odious. Oral histories and survivor statements have played a central