OHA News

Social media serves as a means of keeping the world connected. Various platforms, including Twitter and Facebook, promote that connection primarily through words, as we learn to make our opinions concise while tweeting or keep in touch with people through Facebook messages. Instagram is a social media platform that focuses on photographs, and those visuals […]

Follow our weekly series, Throwback Thursday, designed to help celebrate 50 years of OHA. We’ll profile a year in the life of the organization each week with photos, logos, and highlights taken from the Oral History Association Newsletter. We welcome your memories, photos, and comments at oha@gsu.edu. OHA in 1983…   Cal State-Long Beach President Stephen Horn, Sherna

50th Anniversary Task Force chair Mary Larson invites you to contribute your time and money to OHA.  Read why the campaign is meaningful and donate at 50th Endowment Campaign.

Follow our weekly series, Throwback Thursday, designed to help celebrate 50 years of OHA. We’ll profile a year in the life of the organization each week with photos, logos, and highlights taken from the Oral History Association Newsletter. We welcome your memories, photos, and comments at oha@gsu.edu. OHA in 1981… Shirley Stephenson, Stephen Stern, and Stephen Colston, charter

Oral History Association International Scholarships Sixteen international scholarship applications were received this year and the decisions on which to fund were very challenging for the committee. In the end, five scholarships were awarded: Joana Craveiro, Portugal Marella Hoffman, UK Meera Anna Oommen, India Annie Pohlman, Australia Samantha Prendergast, Australia Congratulations to you all! Your attendance

Search for Host Institution and Executive Director Request for Proposals The Oral History Association (OHA), the principal organization of practicing oral historians in the United States, is seeking an institutional home for its executive office and staff effective January 1, 2018. As part of this search, the OHA plans to hire a new Executive Director

Follow our weekly series, Throwback Thursday, designed to help celebrate 50 years of OHA. We’ll profile a year in the life of the organization each week with photos, logos, and highlights taken from the Oral History Association Newsletter. We welcome your memories, photos, and comments at oha@gsu.edu. OHA in 1980… L-R Martha Ross, James W. Hammack, Jr., Collum

Registration is open for the 2016 Oral History Association annual meeting! The 2016 meeting will capture the spirit of the first National Colloquium on Oral History in 1966 by introducing lively theoretical and methodological discussion space, examining current and ongoing work, as well as looking toward the future of the field. The theme of “OHA@50: Traditions, Transitions

Follow our weekly series, Throwback Thursday, designed to help celebrate 50 years of OHA. We’ll profile a year in the life of the organization each week with photos, logos, and highlights taken from the Oral History Association Newsletter. We welcome your memories, photos, and comments at oha@gsu.edu. OHA in 1979… JFK Library, dedicated in 1979  OHA President Moss

Looking forward to the 2016 Annual Meeting By Sarah Milligan and Sady Sullivan OHA Program Co-Chairs As you surely know by now, 2016 is the 50th anniversary for the Oral History Association.  The 2016 annual meeting will capture the spirit of the first National Colloquium on Oral History in 1966 by introducing lively theoretical and

By Anne Valk, Williams College The extraordinary election season that we are currently enduring has given me many reasons to contemplate the relationship between history and memory.  A large field of candidates is rapidly winnowing to a handful albeit with many surprises along the way.  What seemed like a foregone conclusion last year — a