OHA members will elect three members to vacancies on the Nominating Committee by casting votes for one of each of the following pairs of candidates: Position 1 Chuck Bolton and Cyns Nelson Chuck Bolton is a history professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) and previously directed the Center for Oral History
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By Mary Larson, Chair 50th Anniversary Task Force OHA will be celebrating its semi-centennial at our Long Beach meeting this fall, and the 50th Anniversary Task Force is working hard to ensure that there will be a wide range of activities and conference sessions presented as part of the festivities. Programming isn’t the task force’s
What began in 1969 with an interview with a colleague of legendary American composer Charles Ives has morphed into Yale University’s Oral History of American Music archive, with more than 2,600 interviews with leading lights of 20th and 21st century American music. The story of the archive and its evolution was featured recently in Yale
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Big news for OHA in 1975 was raising membership dues to $10, up from $7.50 the previous year, equivalent to a whopping $36.23 in today’s dollars. A 1974 issue of the OHA Newsletter also recounted a memorable snafu at that year’s annual meeting: Oral historians who attended the ninth annual OHA Colloquium at Grant Teton
Follow our weekly series, Throwback Thursday, designed to help celebrate 50 years of OHA. We’ll profile a year in the life of the organization each week with photos, logos, and highlights taken from the Oral History Association Newsletter. We welcome your memories, photos, and comments at . OHA in 1978… Ron Marcello, University of North Texas, OHA Executive Secretary
Oral History Society Annual Conference, 8-9 July, 2016 Registration is now open for the OHS Annual Conference entitled ‘Beyond Text in the Digital Age? Oral History, Images and the Written Word’. The conference will be held at the University of Roehampton. Keynote spears are Professors Mary Larson, Alessandro Portelli and Anne Valk. Registration information
Follow our weekly series, Throwback Thursday, designed to help celebrate 50 years of OHA. We’ll profile a year in the life of the organization each week with photos, logos, and highlights taken from the Oral History Association Newsletter. We welcome your memories, photos, and comments at . OHA in 1977… President: William Wyatt, Western Health Systems, Inc.Site of
The Oral History Association’s Labor Working Group came into existence earlier this year at the request of OHA President Annie Valk to address the labor dispute at the Renaissance Long Beach, the OHA conference hotel for our 2016 annual meeting. The Association risks severe financial penalty should it break the hotel contract or fail to
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Follow our weekly series, Throwback Thursday, designed to help celebrate 50 years of OHA. We’ll profile a year in the life of the organization each week with photos, logos, and highlights taken from the Oral History Association Newsletter. We welcome your memories, photos, and comments at . OHA in 1976… Alice Hoffman, Penn State, first woman President of OHA
Follow our weekly series, Throwback Thursday, designed to help celebrate 50 years of OHA. We’ll profile a year in the life of the organization each week with photos, logos, and highlights taken from the Oral History Association Newsletter. We welcome your memories, photos, and comments at . OHA in 1975… Left to right: Joel Gardner and Bernard Galm
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The submission deadline for annual OHA awards marking achievement in the use of oral history has been extended. Submissions for the Book Award, Article Award, Elizabeth B. Mason Project Award, Oral History in a Nonprint Format Award, and the Postsecondary Teaching Award will be due by Sunday, May 1. The deadline for the Stetson Kennedy
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Follow our weekly series, Throwback Thursday, designed to help celebrate 50 years of OHA. We’ll profile a year in the life of the organization each week with photos, logos, and highlights taken from the Oral History Association Newsletter. We welcome your memories, photos, and comments at . OHA in 1974… Attendees at the 1974 Colloquium were stranded when
