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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

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

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

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.

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

When the Lone Star State Met the Iron Curtain: Recollections of Texas in the Cold War is a Texas Historical Commission initiative to interpret and preserve the history of the varied roles Texans played in the Cold War from 1946–1991. The project goal is to honor the memories of both Texans who served in the