Whether you’re presenting, not presenting, or from outside the U.S., you can request funding from the OHA to help offset the cost of attending the 2025 Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA. ✰ OHA Annual Meeting 2025 ✰Exploring Our American Stories: Oral history and American identity approaching 250 years of independenceAtlanta, GAOctober 15-18, 2025 The Oral […]
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The Oral History Association is updating its guidance on Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) and the ways in which their operation relates to the research of oral historians. Please share your experiences in our survey that will be open through June 13, 2025. Your input on this is essential as we work to offer the best
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To supplement this spring’s issue of the Oral History Review, which features a Special Section on Oral History and Disability, we present in Extra! two project-based posts, and an author interview. The Author Interview is with Nora Ellen Groce, author of the book featured in our Classics Revisited column, Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha’s Vineyard.
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Thursday, May 1, 2025 @ 2 – 3 pm CDT Join us in a dynamic conversation hosted by the OHA’s very own President Troy Reeves and Council Member Anna Sheftel. Your presence and thoughts would be highly valued in this discussion about the issues and concerns all of you, the OHA community, are currently facing,
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Since January 2025, the federal workforce has been experiencing unprecedented changes. Researcher Jason M. Chernesky is one of those affected, having been recently terminated by the DOGE from his role as Historian at the FDA. With Chernesky and the Organization of American Historians, the OHA is embarking on a project documenting the experiences of federal
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Join us in supporting the Oral History Association by giving to the general endowment and sharing what OHA means to you! Your gift today will be DOUBLED! Thanks to a generous pledge from OHA Past Presidents and the History Task Force, every dollar you donate—up to $7,000—will be matched. Plus, OHA Council members have shown
Oral History Association volunteers serving as officers, council members, and committee members lead and shape the organization. We are grateful for the time and service of so many talented individuals, and we invite more people to join in this process by nominating yourself or someone else to a leadership position. Help us move the organization
Application Review Begins January 31 The Oral History Association (OHA) seeks to hire a full-time program associate to assist in the operation of its Executive Office. Since 1966, the OHA has served as the principal membership organization for people committed to the value of oral history. Job tasks assigned to the program associate include
The official 2025 annual meeting page for the upcoming OHA conference in Atlanta, Georgia, is now available on the OHA website! Inspired by the upcoming semi-quincentennial commemoration of the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, the 2025 Oral History Association Annual Meeting will convene a variety of shared experiences that ask
Survey Closes on November 15, 2024 Thank you for being a part of this year’s conference! We’re committed to delivering valuable experiences, and your feedback is essential in helping us improve. Please take a few minutes to complete our post-conference survey. Click here to access the survey.
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OHR Extra! is an open-access online publication produced by the current Oral History Review team. It complements the journal by extending the conversations we are having in the Review and aims to support the oral history community at large by inviting coverage of topics, news, projects, and events important to the field. Extra! will be updated regularly throughout the year, but to
The final program for the 58th Annual Meeting of the Oral History Association is now available here! Registration is now closed for the 2024 OHA Annual Meeting to be held October 30-November 2 at the Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza. Online registration closes on October 23, 2024. On-site registration will be available. Housing: Our 2024 Annual Meeting
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