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Call for Proposals: 2025 Spanish Hawaiian Heritage Association Conference

/ Events, Calls for Proposals

Deadline: January 24, 2025 The Spanish Hawaiian Heritage Association is convening a conference to spur research, and interest in Spaniards who emigrated to Hawai‘i, and subsequently to California. The conference will be held at the University of California Davis on September 5-7, 2025. Events will include plenary and keynote speakers, academic panels, book talks, cultural […]

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Share Your Thoughts on Our Cincinnati Meeting – Post-Conference Survey Now Open!

/ OHA Annual Meeting, OHA News

Survey Closes on November 15, 2024 Thank you for being a part of this year’s conference! We’re committed to delivering valuable experiences, and your feedback is essential in helping us improve. Please take a few minutes to complete our post-conference survey.  Click here to access the survey.

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Announcing OHR Extra!

/ OHA News

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, but to

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Oral History Associate – Jacksonville Public Library

/ Jobs and Professional Opportunities

The Oral History Associate is a 5-year Mellon grant funded position through the Jacksonville Public Library Foundation. This position will support the Mellon Foundation’s Memory Lab grant to enhance and expand the Library’s existing African American History Collection to greatly emphasize local history and culture. Are you passionate about preserving the stories and memories of

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The Schaap Archive at Vanderbilt

/ OHR Extra!

Vanderbilt makes available the extraordinary Phil Schaap Jazz Collection Because the development of jazz coincided with the inventions of recording and broadcasting, its story became an early oral history genre. Much of its history was told by the musicians who also played it, and many of their accounts were preserved on disc, tape and radio

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5 Questions About Hurricane Sandy on New Jersey’s Forgotten Shore

/ OHR Extra!

We ask authors of books reviewed in Oral History Review to answer 5 questions about why we should read their books. In our latest installment of the series, former co-editor, Abigail Perkiss, discusses her book, Hurricane Sandy on New Jersey’s Forgotten Shore, which is reviewed in the latest issue of OHR. Give us the elevator pitch for your book.

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Author Interview: Anna Kaplan on Black Women’s Academic Oral History Roots

/ OHR Extra!

In “A Black Women’s Practice: Oral History from Fisk University’s Ex-slave Narratives and the Black Women Oral History Project” in the fall 2024 issue of OHR, historian Anna Kaplan questions the dichotomy that oral historians have developed in recent years regarding the field’s origins and genealogy that pit its academic roots against its radical ones.

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HBCU Radio Preservation Project Archival Fellow

/ Jobs and Professional Opportunities, Grants, Fellowships, and Awards

Time Commitment and Compensation:This is a one-year, full-time, grant-funded fellowship. Compensation is $45,000 annually andoffers health and wellness benefits. This may be a remote position. Position commencesJanuary 1 and runs through December 31. Computer/software and professional development and travel funds will be provided, as willmembership in SAA, OHA, and other appropriate organizations. About the Fellowship:The

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