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,
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
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,
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 1967 Chairman: James V. Mink, UCLA Site of
Join us as OHA kicks off a new weekly series, Throwback Thursday. We’ll profile a year in the life of OHA 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. From Volume 1, No. 1, June 1967 Excerpts from “Meeting on
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
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
