Post by David Reichard As a member of the Diversity Committee, I am always looking for how oral histories from underrepresented communities are being collected and shared more widely. I recently came across a project from the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center that piqued my interest. As Kathleen Sullivan, Director of the Seniors Services Program, told […]
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The Oral History Forum d’histoire orale is proud to announce a new resource: Annotated Bibliography of Oral History in Canada: 1980 – 2012 by Kristina R. Llewellyn and Dana Nowak (Renison University College, Waterloo University) https://www.oralhistoryforum.ca Abstract: Oral history in Canada has flourished over the past two decades. There is a lack of knowledge, however,
More than 1,800 oral histories of Wisconsin veterans, dating back to the program’s start in 1994, are on cassette tapes, CDs and now digital recordings. The museum hired its first full-time oral historian in 2011 for a two-year term. The position becomes permanent later this summer, though it will no longer be full-time, according to
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Oral history plays a starring role in the latest episode of BackStory – a public radio program that explores major ideas, themes, and features of American life through three centuries of history. The episode looks to the history of the Mississippi River, and includes a segment on the Great Flood of 1927 – told from
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Welcome to the OHA International Committee’s first blog in which I would like to introduce our committee. What do we do? The International Committee serves as liaison to the International Oral History Association, ensures international participation in the OHA annual meeting program, encourages institutional participation in OHA publications, and holds an open session at the
C-Span presents an oral history with Michael Conway, Michael Conway, who served as counsel to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee during their impeachment inquiry. Mr. Conway talks about meeting Bill and Hillary Clinton and John Doar during his time at Yale Law School, and about working for Doar who served as special counsel to the
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Friday Luncheon Keynote Speaker 12:00 – 1:30 PM Wade Goodwyn, NPR National Desk Correspondent “The Art of Storytelling” Wade Goodwyn is a NPR National Desk Correspondent covering Texas and surrounding states. Working for NPR since 1991, Goodwyn has reported on many of the nation’s top stories. He’s covered the implosion of Enron, the trials
From Dreams & Visions… to Reality, a documentary video project featuring oral histories collected and filmed by students participating in the 2013 Apollo Theater Oral History Project at Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing and Visual Arts, is available at the project website.
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Project chair Iris Buhl led a project to document LGBT life in Middle Tennessee before the landmark Stonewall uprising in 1969. Read more at the Nashville Scene.
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Congress is beginning to deliberate funding National Endowment for the Humanities and the state humanities councils for FY2014. The Federation of State Humanities Councils has drafted the attached letter to the Interior Appropriations Committee in support of funding that would restore the funding level in place prior to this year’s mandatory sequester. The Oral History Association
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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
