OHA News

The OHA 2018 Call for Posters is now available. The submission portal can be found at OHA 2018. The deadline is July 31, 2018, but submissions will be viewed and accepted on a rolling basis.

By Nancy MacKay, Book Review Editor   Did you know that the Oral History Review, the journal of the Oral History Association, publishes 30-40 book reviews in every issue? And that each book reviewed first must be identified as relevant to oral history; then read, analyzed and written about by volunteer scholars in the OHA

          John S. Schuchman, the hearing son of deaf parents who was among the pioneers of oral history interviewing with deaf people, died of cancer Dec. 19, 2017. He was 79. Schuchman, a longtime member of the Oral History Association and Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region (OHMAR), began his academic

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

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.

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

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

by Linda Shopes Bruce M. Stave (1937 – 2017) Bruce M. Stave, editor of the Oral History Review from 1996 to1999, died on December 2, 2017. He was affiliated with the history department at the University of Connecticut for forty-seven years, most recently as Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus. For all of

We want you to continue your connection to the OHA network of oral historians! It’s never been easier to renew your membership. If you haven’t done so for 2018, there are two ways to renew. Check your email for renewal reminders with simple instructions. Another reminder is due mid-December. Use the new Member Site to renew.

Keynote speaker unravels a history mystery for OHA audience In the early decades of the 20th century, Greenwich Village was home to an odd character named Joe Gould, who coined the term “oral history,” founded an Oral History Association and walked around New York City claiming to write down everything anyone ever said to him,