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The Brooklyn Collection at the Brooklyn Public Library is creating an oral history project to document the ways that Hurricane Sandy has affected members of the Brooklyn community. The project, directed by outreach librarian June Koffi, will consist of interviewing participants about how they prepared for the storm, their experiences during the hurricane and how they
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender alumni attendants at the recent Every Voice conference had the opportunity to record their personal narratives as part of an audio and visual oral history project organized by the Alumni Association of Princeton University and funded by the institutional equity and diversity efforts of the Office of the Provost. Read more from
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University of Nevada, Reno Assistant Professor Alicia Barber will be presented the sixteenth Santini Cup at the Nevada Debate and Oral Communication Awards Ceremony held on May 7. Barber has been a member of the faculty in the Department of History at the University since 2003. She is director of the University of Nevada Oral
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Christopher Newport University’s History department recently created a project that documents the role the civil rights movement had on the area through a program called The Hampton Roads Oral History Project. The project began as part of the “The Long Civil Rights Movement” course offered in the fall of 2012 by history professor, Dr. Laura Puaca. The
A multimedia exhibit featuring recordings of firsthand accounts of the April 27, 2011, tornado, its aftermath and the city’s recovery opened Tuesday morning at the Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum. “Listening to the Storm: A Natural Disaster in Retrospective,” an oral history project centered around the storm, captured the stories of city leaders, storm survivors, first
April 2011 tornado oral history exhibit opens at Tuscaloosa’s Transportation Museum Read More »
First-year students at Loyola University New Orleans are video documenting rare oral histories of New Orleans as part of their classes, including little-known stories of the legendary Dooky Chase Restaurant. Using Loyola’s new Documentary and Oral History Studio, the freshmen interviewed former employees who worked during the restaurant’s beginnings in the 1940s and 1950s. Read more
Loyola students help preserve untold New Orleans stories with oral history project Read More »
In an effort to provide access to oral histories and find creative ways of showcasing an interview/interviews in the context of how they relates to and interact with other primary source material, the Office of Oral History, South Caroliniana Library created an online exhibit to begin to tell the story of a now-defunct South Carolina spring
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The Centre for Public History, Bangalore has created a certificate program to train Indian historians in the craft. Read more about the announcement or the project.
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A very useful New York Times article on archiving family audio records features Bertram Lyons of the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress. Lyons is one of the contributors to “Oral History in the Digital Age” and to the most recent issue of The Oral History Review. Read “Tips on Archiving Family History, Park 1“
The Oral History Association marks the death of pioneering oral historian Martha Ross on April 5th. Martha was a long-time leader in the OHA, serving as president in 1985. In 1976 she was a founder of Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region (OHMAR). Martha set a high standard for excellence in oral history practice and