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By Janneken Smucker, Workshop Leader The field of oral history has made dramatic changes with the introduction of new digital technologies. And with those technologies, our expectations have changed too. For interviews and projects in which we have permission to share the words of our narrators, there is an urge to quickly post online. But […]

On Wednesday, September 13, the Oral History Association will be hosting a Day of Giving where we dedicate the day to fundraising for our great organization.  Many of you contributed during last year’s effort which was very successful and allowed us to provide much needed funding for scholarships. This year, we will be designating our OHA Giving Day

The Oral History Association is pleased to announce the new editorial team that will assume responsibility for editing and producing the Oral History Review, the leading scholarly journal in the field, published by the Oral History Association and Oxford University Press. The incoming editorial team— Editor David Caruso, Chemical Heritage Foundation; Managing Editor Abigail Perkiss,

  The Oral History Review, the official journal of the Oral History Association, is accepting applications for two positions on the editorial team, the Pedagogy Editor and the Book Review Editor. The successful applicants will join the six-member editorial team of the Review and will participate actively in the development of the journal.  The editorial

  Please join the International Committee at these two events at the OHA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis! Everyone is invited to attend.   International Committee Meeting When:                 Wednesday, October 4, 2017 Where:               Marquette III room, Hilton Minneapolis Hotel Time:                   3-5 PM   International Committee Reception When:                 Wednesday, October 4, 2017 Where:               The Choir room in ‘The

by Susan Davis, workshop leader for Podcasting I and II offered at the OHA annual meeting in Minneapolis. For more information on registration, see OHA 2017.   Since February I have been to Armenia, Georgia, Sri Lanka, Morocco, Jamaica, Australia, Senegal and Mozambique to teach workshops on podcasting. Each of these countries, while in differing states

As we approach the annual meeting, the incoming president is preparing to make appointments to the Association’s standing committees. In an effort to ensure we are casting the widest net possible for potential committee members, this year the Committee Task Force is asking members to let us know if they might be interested in serving

by Sarah Loose Charlottesville. The Pulse. Charleston. Portland MAX attacks. Muslim Ban. Black Lives Matter. The Women’s March. Standing Rock. #Not1More Organizer Soya Jung coined a slogan for these times: hearts open, fists up.  For those of us who practice oral history, could we adapt that slogan for our own vocation? Hearts open, fists up,

In the wake of the violence this weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, the leadership of the Oral History Association (OHA) joins its members in broad condemnation of the acts of hatred that took place there.  Since our founding over 50 years ago, OHA members have frequently been called upon to document the stories of those who

by Doug Boyd When I interviewed Don Ritchie on September 25, 2015, for the Nunn Center’s Interviewing the Interviewers oral history project, we spoke of many things regarding the history of the Oral History Association (https://kentuckyoralhistory.org/catalog/xt712j685w90). Among the many things discussed, Don recalled the debate regarding the OHA transition to the mail ballot for electing

By Kristine Navarro-McElhaney, Interim Executive Director  As you know, OHA is in transition and there are many changes on the horizon for the organization, from the editors for the Oral History Review to a new institutional home for our executive offices.  As we move forward, it is important for us to remember that our staff,

By Rachel Seidman, Program Committee Co-Chair  A century ago, Joe Gould, a bohemian from Greenwich Village, began writing down anything that anyone ever said to him, especially in Harlem. Gould, who coined the term “oral history,” founded an oral history association in the 1920s. He wrote an extraordinarily long book called The Oral History of