By Steven Sielaff. This post first appeared at the Oxford University Press blog Throughout my time as Oral History Review (OHR) editorial assistant at the Oral History Association’s (OHA) annual conference in Oklahoma City, OK, I saw a number of prevailing themes. In the recent past, the push towards digitization and web-based portals has dominated […]
The New York Times has published an interview with Dave Isay, founder of StoryCorps. It is available on their website.
The OHA has been involved in a strategic planning process to provide direction as to where the organization will be going over the next four years. Toward that end we have developed a document itemizing our mission, vision, values, and objectives in a number of areas. We are posting this document on the OHA website
The Southern Oral History Program at the UNC Center for the Study of the American South has posted an account of their presence at the 2013 Annual Meeting. It is available on their website here. Did you write an article or blog post about your experience at the meeting? Please send it to us! oha@gsu.edu
Amy Cameron Evans, of the Southern Foodways Alliance, has a blog post about her experience at the OHA 2013 Annual Meeting. It can be found here. Did you write an article or blog post about your experience at the meeting? We would love to read it! Send it to us: oha@gsu.edu
The American Historical Association has an article on several of the oral history projects that have emerged to document the effects of Hurricane Sandy. It can be found in the newest issue of Perspectives on History, or online here.
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Cynthia Nelson, archivist at the Kenosha History Center, recently offered suggestions on how to successfully use video in recording oral histories. You can read them here.
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Claytee White, director of the Oral History Research Center, based in the special collections department at University of Nevada – Las Vegas, has begun work on an oral history project called The West Charleston Neighborhood: An Oral History Project of Ward One. Read more about the project from the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
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From the AP: Seeking inspiration for a musical commission to mark the 50th anniversary of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, composer Yotam Haber turned to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute’s Oral History Project. Combing through the files in the Alabama city, he came across a 1998 interview with Henrietta Tripp. He was struck by
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This AARP article suggests steps to creating your own oral history-based “Family Tree.” It is a good entry-level guide for those interested in preserving their own family’s stories.
We have two overviews of the 2013 meeting that give a flavor of all the great things that happened there. One was done by OHR blogger Steven Sielaff: https://oralhistoryreview.tumblr.com/ And the other was compiled from the various tweets done about the meeting by Jaycie Vos of the University of North Carolina’s Southern Oral History Program:
South African Deputy Minister of Arts and Culture addressed the 10th annual Oral History Association of South Africa conference in Kimberley, South Africa. He urged participants to reflect on their freedom and where they come from. Read more about his comments on The New Age Online.
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