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President’s Letter

#MeToo and the OHA By Todd Moye OHA Council has been busy over the past few months addressing the issue of sexual harassment in the organization. I wish I could report that we began these discussions proactively, but in reality we were forced into this conversation. In January a new member alleged that another OHA […]

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Volunteer an hour to help transform understanding of metadata practices for oral history

By Jaycie Vos, OHA Publications Committee and Metadata Task Force The Oral History Association Metadata Task Force is charged with improving access and discovery for oral history interviews by helping their creators and caretakers improve the capture and preservation of the interviews’ metadata. The task force saw the need for more structured information to offer

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Co-Executive Directors’ Letter

By Louis M. Kyriakoudes and Kristine McCusker The last few months have seen a whirlwind of activity as we have overseen the move of OHA’s former home at Georgia State University to its new home here at Middle Tennessee State University. We’ve attended to many details, from setting up the new office here at MTSU’s Peck

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President’s Column

By Todd Moye As you know, OHA is a little over one month into a major transition. Our executive offices have moved across the state line from Georgia State University to Middle Tennessee State University, where Kris McCusker and Louis Kyriakoudes have taken over as co-executive directors and Faith Bagley is our new program associate.

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OHA joins the AHA and other scholarly organizations in denouncing Poland’s legislation criminalizing statements discussing Polish complicity in Nazi war crimes and the Holocaust

The Oral History Association joins the American Historical Association in condemning Poland’s recently enacted legislation making it illegal to publicly discuss Polish complicity in Nazi war crimes. The law is a direct attack on free speech and scholarly inquiry. For Oral Historians, it is especially odious. Oral histories and survivor statements have played a central

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Six Month Delay in Implementation of Changes to the Common Rule Exempting Oral History from IRB Review

New federal regulations that exempt oral history from review by Institutional Review Boards (IRB) have been delayed by at least six months. OHA has long advocated for changes to the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects, known as the Common Rule. Oral history, by preserving the unique perspective of an individual, does not

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