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Throwback Thursday — On to the ’70s!

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 […]

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Throwback Thursday — A Look at 1969

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,

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Throwback Thursday — OHA in ’68

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 1968 President: Louis M. Starr, Columbia University Site

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International Committee Blog

Upcoming International Summer School of Oral History in Prague – September 5 – 13, 2016 Instructors will include Rob Perks (UK), Alexander von Plato (Germany), David King Dunaway (USA), Monika Vrzgulová (Slovakia), Miroslav Vaněk (Czech Republic), Pavel Mücke (Czech Republic) and other teachers from our Department of Oral History – Contemporary History. Registration due by April 30,

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International Committee Blog

Many thanks to International Committee member Mirek Vaněk for writing the following blog this month: New Release: Velvet Revolutions.  An Oral History of Czech Society Miroslav Vaněk Pavel Mücke The Velvet Revolution in November 1989 brought about the collapse of the authoritarian communist regime in what was then Czechoslovakia. It also marks the beginning of

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Nominations due for OHA awards

In 1993, the Oral History Association established a series of awards to recognize outstanding achievement in oral history. The awards highlight exemplary oral history work completed in the past year. OHA will present awards at the 2016 annual meeting in Long Beach for outstanding use of oral history in several categories. Nominations for the awards are

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International Committee Blog

  Many thanks to International Committee member Hannah Gill for writing the following blog this month:   The New Roots/Nuevas Raíces Latino Oral History Initiative Launches Bilingual Digital Resources The growth of Latino communities in the U.S. South is one of the most significant demographic changes in the recent history of the nation. The New

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OHA thanks conference sponsors

Nearly three dozen institutions and individuals contributed sponsorship support to the 2015 OHA conference in Tampa. Our sincere thanks to the following: Arizona State University Baylor Institute for Oral History Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University Center for Oral and Public History, California State University, Fullerton Chemical Heritage Foundation The Citadel Oral History Program Columbia

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Oral History Association annual meeting in Tampa examines social justice, social change

You know you’re in Tampa, Florida, when the walkway from the conference hotel to the Tampa Bay History Center warns you to keep your eyes peeled for the iconic Florida creatures. More than 420 oral historians from around the nation and from nine foreign countries examined stories of social change and social justice through an

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