This month we will be highlighting Power and Democracy: the many voices of Oral History. The XVIII International Oral History Conference to be held 9-12 July, 2014 in Barcelona, Spain. Information about the conference can be found at https://2014iohacongress.wordpress.com/. Please note that the deadline for the call for proposals has been extended to September 15, […]
The “Kentucky Bourbon Tales,” a collaborative effort by the Kentucky Distillers’ Association and the University of Kentucky’s Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, sits down Kentucky’s bourbon barons to tell the stories about themselves, their age-old craft and their products that are in global demand. The project’s first interviews were done late last month with the
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The Oral History Association is delighted to announce that the 2013 Emerging Crisis Oral History Research Fund goes to Carrie and Michael Kline of Talking Across the Lines for their proposed project “The Oil and Gas Rush in the Marcellus Shale Fields of West Virginia: An Emerging Crisis.” As in other parts of the United
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All of the rooms at the Skirvin, the conference hotel, have now been reserved. The OHA has booked additional rooms at the Hampton Inn and Suites, 5-6 blocks from the Skirvin, in the Bricktown district. Conference rates are $149 for a room with a single king-sized bed, and $154 for a room with double queen-sized
The newly incorporated Oral History and Folklife Research, Inc. announces their relaunched website. The website currently includes a link to a slide/audio presentation on the canneries that once dotted the coast of Maine. You can visit the website at www.oralhistoryandfolklife.org
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Boston College’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors has sent a third letter to the Rev. William Leahy, the president, asking that the administration appoint an independent committee to examine the circumstances surrounding the creation and conduct of the oral history collection known as the Belfast Project. The controversial legal fight over access
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In conjunction with the annual meeting, the OHA offers a robust assortment of workshops aimed at everyone from novices to experienced practitioners. The workshops cover a wide range of topics, from the collection and preservation of oral history interviews, to legal and ethical issues, to the use of oral history in diverse formats and settings.
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed a website-building tool that puts previously complex digital programming into the hands of historians and researchers. The new tool, called the Digital Humanities Toolkit or DH Press, provides a way for historians, researchers, teachers and others to create interactive websites, virtual tours, data maps
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The MidAtlantic Regional Center for the Humanities features an article by Linda Shopes, about Columbia University’s Oral History Master of Arts program. The program, housed at Columbia’s Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics, is a collaboration between the Columbia Center for Oral History and Institute for Social and Economic Research Policy. To date, forty-five students have graduated
Take a listen to the story produced by Crosscurrents KALW about the celebrations which accompanied the opening of the original San Francisco Bay Bridge. Oral histories feature prominently.
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James Sterling Young, who established the country’s only program dedicated to compiling comprehensive oral histories of the American presidency, and who also amassed a vast oral history of Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s career, died on Aug. 8 at his home in Advance Mills, Va. He was 85. His death was announced by the Miller Center
Friday, October 11, 9:00 am- 4:00 pm Explore Guthrie, Oklahoma – Oklahoma’s first capital Cost: $50 Travel by bus to Guthrie, Oklahoma, which served as Oklahoma’s state capital from 1907 to 1910. Located approximately thirty-two miles north of Oklahoma City, Guthrie is one of the largest contiguous Historic Districts listed on the National Register of
