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Announcing OHR Extra!

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

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

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

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

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

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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Call for Papers: SMI and ICTM-IE Postgraduate Conference 2025

Trinity College Dublin 16-17 January 2025 Deadline: Friday, 8 November 2024 Email: smi.ictmd.2025@gmail.com The Society for Musicology in Ireland (SMI) and the Irish National Committee of the InternationalCouncil for Traditions of Music and Dance (ICTMD-IE) are pleased to announce their annual jointpostgraduate conference will take place at Trinity College Dublin on Thursday 16 and Friday

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Request for Proposals: African Americans and National Park Service, 1872-1965

Proposals and Cost Estimates Due November 1 by 5PM EST The National Park Service (NPS) is seeking the services of a consultant or firm through acooperative agreement with the Association for the Study of African American Life andHistory (ASALH) to collect oral histories in accordance with the requirements specified in thisRequest for Proposals (RFP). The

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Call for Papers: Indigenous Oral History Special Issue!

The Oral History Review invites practitioners to respond to this call for papers with oral history encounters/interviews, essays, reflections and stories that reveal the multiplicity of ways in which Indigenous oral historians embrace different ways of knowing, and diverse expressions of what it means to “do” oral history in our communities. Click Here for the Call

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