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. ✰ OHA Annual Meeting 2025 ✰Exploring Our American Stories: Oral history and American identity approaching 250 years of independenceAtlanta, GAOctober 15-18, 2025 The Oral […]
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The Oral History Association is updating its guidance on Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) and the ways in which their operation relates to the research of oral historians. Please share your experiences in our survey that will be open through June 13, 2025. Your input on this is essential as we work to offer the best
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Deadline: June 15, 2025 About the Thomas Jefferson Foundation:The Thomas Jefferson Foundation has a twofold mission of preservation and education, and was incorporated in 1923 to preserve Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson, in Charlottesville, Virginia. Today, the Foundation seeks to bring history forward into national and global dialogues by engaging audiences with Jefferson’s world
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.
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Location: University Park, PA 16802 The Pennsylvania State University Libraries seeks applications for the position of Head of the Eberly Family Special Collections Library. Reporting to the Associate Dean for Distinctive Collections and Digital Strategies, this tenure-line faculty librarian position provides strategic leadership and administration of the Special Collections Library (SCL). This position will build
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Review of interest forms will begin on May 5, 2025. Description: California State Parks in the Capital District (Sacramento Region) seeks graduate students or early-career professionals with an interest in museums for a fellowship program starting in July 2025. Fellows will undertake an oral history project at either the California State Railroad Museum or the
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The OHA Program Committee is seeking submissions from individuals who would like to serve as a chair for Annual Meeting panels held in Atlanta from October 16-18, 2025. The OHA Annual Meeting benefits from having volunteers serve as chairs for sessions that align with their expertise. Interested parties will have the opportunity to describe their background
Q: Tell us about documenting the history of Minnesota’s deaf, deafblind, and hard of hearing community through oral-visual history. A: Although this community has a long and rich history in Minnesota, people’s stories were scattered across the landscape. This project let us collect these stories and fill a long-standing gap in the historical record. We went
Thursday, May 1, 2025 @ 2 – 3 pm CDT Join us in a dynamic conversation hosted by the OHA’s very own President Troy Reeves and Council Member Anna Sheftel. Your presence and thoughts would be highly valued in this discussion about the issues and concerns all of you, the OHA community, are currently facing,
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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century (Vintage Books, 2020) is a collection of essays and other writings by disabled people. This is not a book of oral histories or a book that uses oral history as a method, but it’s nonetheless an important book for oral historians. To clear up any confusion, there
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First published in 1985, Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language is now widely considered a landmark disability study. Tracing hereditary deafness on Martha’s Vineyard, a coastal Massachusetts island, Nora Ellen Groce discovered, in her historical investigation, an uncommon incidence of deafness over multiple generations on the island, but also that deaf residents were accepted and involved
Due May 2, 2025 Crownsville Hospital Public History Manager The Cultural Resources Section in the Planning Division is hiring a Contractual Crownsville Hospital Public History Manager. The primary role of this position is to: The position will work under the direction of the Program Administrator for the Cultural Resources Section in the Office of Planning and
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