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Considering Alice Wong’s Disability Visibility through an Oral History Lens

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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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Author Interview: Nora Ellen Groce

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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

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One-Year Contract Positions @ Crownsville Hospital

/ Jobs and Professional Opportunities, Archivist and Librarian Jobs, Oral Historian Jobs

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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Project Manager @ Historic Preservation and Tourism, City of Austin Parks and Recreation Department (Temp, PT)

/ Jobs and Professional Opportunities, Oral Historian Jobs

Due April 17, 2025 The purpose of this Temporary Project Manager position is to support the City of Austin Parks and Recreation Department’s Historic Preservation and Tourism Program by conducting and transcribing oral histories regarding the Montopolis Negro School. The individual in this position will research approximately 15-25 interview candidates, who include former students, their

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A photograph of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., from the bottom left corner of the steps, looking upwards at it

Call for participants: New joint Oral History Project on Federal Workers!

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Since January 2025, the federal workforce has been experiencing unprecedented changes. Researcher Jason M. Chernesky is one of those affected, having been recently terminated by the DOGE from his role as Historian at the FDA. With Chernesky and the Organization of American Historians, the OHA is embarking on a project documenting the experiences of federal

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Voice of Witness: “Oral History in Practice” Webinar Series (4/23, 5/7, 5/21)

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What does oral history look like in practice? What goes into community-rooted storytelling projects and what are the outcomes? Voice of Witness is hosting a series of intimate conversations with practitioners who have developed and activated dynamic oral history projects. We’ll explore the connections between storytelling and community building, liberation, ethics, civic engagement, public art,

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Guest Post: Continued Open Access to Our Nation’s Records is Critical

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by Beth Maser, CEO and President, History Associates Incorporated (HAI) At HAI, we have been closely tracking the insights and online concerns our colleagues in the records management, archives, and historical consulting industries are raising regarding the recent firings and layoffs at the National Archives. To that end, we were heartened to see Maegan Vazquez write a piece on

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Research and Oral Historian – The Getting Word African American Oral History Project

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The Getting Word African American Oral History Project seeks to hire a full-time Research and Oral Historian.  Getting Word is the African American research department at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s plantation home in Charlottesville, Virginia. Founded in 1993, Getting Word seeks to record and preserve the family histories of the over 610 people enslaved by Jefferson over the course of his

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