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We invite you to share your favorite stories and memories of OHA Executive Director, Cliff Kuhn.

We are very sorry to have to share with you the news that our friend and OHA Executive Director Cliff Kuhn passed away on Sunday in Atlanta, surrounded as he usually was by loved ones. Surely we do not have to tell you what a loss this is–not just to his family and to us

The Oral History Association’s Annual Meeting in Tampa was excellent. I want to thank all who came to the International Committee meeting and thank our international scholarship recipients for their terrific papers. Here at the comments of two of the international scholarship recipients: My first experience at the OHA Annual Conference was fantastic. There were

Welcome to the 2015 Oral History Association annual meeting! We are going to have a great week in Tampa. **Please note that the OHA registration desk is on the SECOND floor of the Marriott Tampa Waterside Hotel outside Florida Salon 4. Online Registration has closed, but you may register in Tampa at the OHA registration desk.

In collaboration with the Library of Congress Veterans History Project, the Oral History Association announces a new pamphlet titled Doing Veterans Oral History. The pamphlet, written by OHA member Barbara W. Sommer, will be available to purchase at the Annual Meeting in Tampa and online at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Preview the cover at Doing Veterans Oral History.

The Oral History Association’s Annual Meeting in Tampa is quickly approaching. Some things you might be interested in attending are: The International Committee is meeting on Thursday, October 15, 2015, 12:00 – 1:00 PM at the Tampa Marriott Waterside 3, Florida Salon 3. All are welcome so please attend. If you would be interested in

On September 8, 2015, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a set of recommended revisions to the regulations concerning human subject research. Specifically, it recommended that oral history be explicitly excluded from review by institutional review boards, or IRBs, and alluded to the fact that oral history already has its own code

The OHA annual meeting will open with a screening of the documentary film TRASH DANCE. In the film, choreographer Allison Orr finds beauty and grace in garbage trucks, and in the unseen men and women who pick up our trash. Filmmaker Andrew Garrison follows Orr as she rides along with Austin, Texas sanitation workers on

The 2015 Emerging Crises Oral History Research Fund grant was awarded to Groundswell: Oral History in Movements to End Police Brutality, a collaborative oral history partnership between Groundswell and three partner organizations: The Forced Trajectory Project, the Book of Healing, and Freedom Summer 2015. Groundswell is a network of oral historians, activists, cultural workers, community

Human rights activist and comedian Hari Kondabolu will perform at the Oral History Association annual meeting on Friday, October 16, 2015 at 8 pm.  Introduced by oral historian Tony Cherian, Hari will remain after the performance for a question and answer session. Hari Kondabolu is a Brooklyn-based, Queens-raised comic who the NY Times has called “one of the most exciting