When Women’s Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral History (1991) was published nearly twenty-five years ago, it sought to push past the celebratory tone that had then defined much of women’s oral history. In their respective contributions, a diverse and multidisciplinary group of feminist scholars honestly discussed and rigorously debated how the dynamics and complexities […]
Call for Papers for Upcoming International Conferences: ESSHC 2016 The European Social Science History Conference 2016 will be held at the Medical Faculty of the University of Valencia in Spain, March 30 – April 6, 2016. More conference information can be found at: https://esshc.socialhistory.org/. The conference features an Oral History and Life Stories network which
A GUIDE TO ORAL HISTORY AND THE LAW SECOND EDITION JOHN A. NEUENSCHWANDER Oxford | October 14, 2014 Hardcover | 176 Pages | $74.00 | ISBN 9780190209872 Paperback | 176 Pages | $24.95 | ISBN 9780199342518 According to the Oral History Association, the term oral history refers to “a method of recording and preserving oral
Pamela Henson, Director of the Institutional History Division at the Smithsonian Institution, was awarded the Secretary’s Gold Medal for Exceptional Service by Smithsonian Secretary G. Wayne Clough, on December 4, 2014. Dr. Henson has been at the Smithsonian since 1973 and is the historian for the history of the Smithsonian. She has managed the Institution’s
Each year scholarship applications submitted by selected international participants for the OHA annual meeting are reviewed by the International Committee. This year ten applications were reviewed. With only $3,500.00 in total to offer, the decisions on which applications to fund were difficult ones for the committee. The following six participants were granted scholarships: Tetiana Borka
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Read New York Times coverage of Anne Valks’ “Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations” at the Brooklyn Historical Society here: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/03/arts/design/crossing-borders-at-the-brooklyn-historical-society.html?ref=arts&_r=1
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The submission deadline for the OHA annual meeting was January 12, 2015. If you have questions about submitting a proposal, please contact the OHA office.
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights is sharing its collection of oral histories from genocide survivors, and human rights defenders. For more information go to: https://www.businessinsider.com/afp-canadas-new-human-rights-museum-shares-oral-histories-2014-11
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Middle Tennessee State University, located 30 miles southeast of Nashville, offers oral history as a concentration in the Public History Program. MTSU was in the first wave of American universities to embrace the study of public history, initiating an M.A. concentration in 1976 and a Ph.D. in Public History in 2005. Today, the graduate program
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Each year scholarship applications submitted by selected international participants for the OHA annual meeting are reviewed by the International Committee. This year ten applications were reviewed. With only $3,500.00 in total to offer, the decisions on which applications to fund were difficult ones for the committee. The following six participants were granted scholarships: Tetiana Borka
From North Carolina Public Radio: Founder of UNC Southern Oral History Program Reflects on Four Decades of Work By LAURA LEE & FRANK STASIO When Jacquelyn Dowd Hall started the Southern Oral History Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 40 years ago, documenting the lives of ordinary people was not part
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The 2014 Emerging Crises Oral History Research Fund grant was awarded to Luke Eric Lassiter’s project “Oral Histories of the Charleston West Virginia Chemical Spill.” Affecting the drinking water of over 300,000 people in nine counties, the January 2014 chemical spill in the Elk River was dubbed by the New York Times as “one of
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