Follow our weekly series, Throwback Thursday, designed to help celebrate 50 years of OHA. We’ll profile a year in the life of the organization each week with photos, logos, and highlights taken from the Oral History Association Newsletter. We welcome your memories, photos, and comments at oha@gsu.edu. OHA in 1976… Alice Hoffman, Penn State, first woman President of OHA […]
Follow our weekly series, Throwback Thursday, designed to help celebrate 50 years of OHA. We’ll profile a year in the life of the organization each week with photos, logos, and highlights taken from the Oral History Association Newsletter. We welcome your memories, photos, and comments at oha@gsu.edu. OHA in 1975… Left to right: Joel Gardner and Bernard Galm
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The submission deadline for annual OHA awards marking achievement in the use of oral history has been extended. Submissions for the Book Award, Article Award, Elizabeth B. Mason Project Award, Oral History in a Nonprint Format Award, and the Postsecondary Teaching Award will be due by Sunday, May 1. The deadline for the Stetson Kennedy
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Follow our weekly series, Throwback Thursday, designed to help celebrate 50 years of OHA. We’ll profile a year in the life of the organization each week with photos, logos, and highlights taken from the Oral History Association Newsletter. We welcome your memories, photos, and comments at oha@gsu.edu. OHA in 1974… Attendees at the 1974 Colloquium were stranded when
European Social Sciences History Conference – 30 March – 2 April, 2016 – Valencia, Spain This conference continued the high caliber of organization and paper content that has become the hallmark of this conference. Unofficial statistics for the Oral History Network reveal: 79 papers were accepted; 21 were rejected; 63 were published in the conference
Follow our weekly series, Throwback Thursday, designed to help celebrate 50 years of OHA. We’ll profile a year in the life of the organization each week with photos, logos, and highlights taken from the Oral History Association Newsletter. We welcome your memories, photos, and comments at oha@gsu.edu. OHA in 1973… President: John E. Wickman, Director of Eisenhower Library,
As an oral history educator, I always emphasize student self-reflection. I always task my history students at Harford Community College to share their thoughts on how the oral history process impacted them personally and affected their perceptions of the history the narrator discusses. In this self-reflection video clip, a recent student (Amber Turkin) reflects on
Follow our weekly series, Throwback Thursday, designed to help celebrate 50 years of OHA. We’ll profile a year in the life of the organization each week with photos, logos, and highlights taken from the Oral History Association Newsletter. We welcome your memories, photos, and comments at oha@gsu.edu. OHA in 1972… President: Charles Morrisey Site of the Annual Colloquium: Austin, Texas
Follow our weekly series, Throwback Thursday, designed to help celebrate 50 years of OHA. We’ll profile a year in the life of the organization each week with photos, logos, and highlights taken from the Oral History Association Newsletter. We welcome your memories, photos, and comments at oha@gsu.edu. OHA in 1971…another logo! President: Forrest Pogue, George C. Marshall Research Foundation
OHA Education Committee member Katie Kuszmar is passionate about oral history, using it as a tool to foster community and “support collaboration for [environmental] sustainability.” You can read more about her work at https://www.narrability.com. Following the publication of her article “From Boat to Throat: How Oral Histories Immerse Students in Ecoliteracy and Community Building” in
Follow our weekly series, Throwback Thursday, designed to help celebrate 50 years of OHA. We’ll profile a year in the life of the organization each week with photos, logos, and highlights taken from the Oral History Association Newsletter. We welcome your memories, photos, and comments at oha@gsu.edu. OHA in 1970… President: Oscar Winther, Indiana University Site of
Follow our weekly series, Throwback Thursday, designed to help celebrate 50 years of OHA. We’ll profile a year in the life of the organization each week with photos, logos, and highlights taken from the Oral History Association Newsletter. We welcome your memories, photos, and comments at oha@gsu.edu. OHA in 1969 — a new logo debuts! President: Gould Colman,
