The Center for the Study of the American South proudly announces Malinda Maynor Lowery as the new director of the Southern Oral History Program (SOHP) at UNC-Chapel Hill. Her appointment began on July 1, 2013. Lowery will serve as the second permanent director of the SOHP, which was founded in 1973 to preserve the voices […]
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Post by Allison K. Tracy When we think about education and oral history, training volunteers for community-based oral history projects perhaps receive less attention than more traditional pedagogical efforts in oral history. It is, however, an important and vital part of the work we do to foster the use of oral history and to provide
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The Oral History Metadata Synchronizer system is highlighted in the Lexington Herald-Leader. The system, pioneered by Doug Boyd, allows interviews to be tagged with keywords for easy searching and access. Read more about it on the Lexington Herald-Leader website.
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Project Jukebox, part of the oral history program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, has received a grant from the North Pacific Research Board to create a new multimedia segment, “Sea Ice in Barrow.” The $61,205 grant will allow staff from UAF’s Elmer E. Rasmuson Library to record interviews in the Barrow area, and to
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The Society of American Archivists is seeking nominations for Vice Chair/Chair Elect and Steering Committee for the Oral History Section. Additional information is available on the SAA website.
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Thursday, October 10, 2013, 6:00-8:30PM OKLAHOMA HISTORY CENTER The Presidential Reception will take place at the stunning new Oklahoma History Center. An architectural masterpiece, the Oklahoma History Center is an 18-acre, 215,000 square-foot learning center exploring Oklahoma’s history, culture, and heritage. The reception will be held in the soaring 80-ft glass atrium with a
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Information on keynote speakers, plenary sessions, special events, and a complete session listing are now posted. Registration for the Oral History Association 2013 Annual Meeting “Hidden Stories, Contested Truths: The Craft of Oral History” is also available online. See the Annual Meeting page for details.
The NEH announced their new Positions in Public Humanities, which are now part of the America’s Historical and Cultural Organizations (AHCO) grant program. Positions in Public Humanities are intended to reinvigorate the interpretation of the humanities at museums and historical organizations. As part of an AHCO grant request, organizations are invited to request a supplement
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Juliana Delgado conducted interviews with four gay and transgender Latin American immigrants who tell of coming to San Francisco in the 1980s and the ways in which they survived, built, changed (and were changed by) the city. This small compilation of oral histories maps Latin queerness as seen and lived in Spanish: It highlights the
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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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