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Community Support Space Focused on Independent Practitioners!

We’re hosting a community support space for OHA members next week, focusing especially on independent practitioners. Join OHA President Troy Reeves, VP Sarah Milligan, and your fellow OHA community members in an open conversation about the issues and concerns all of you are currently facing, and any opportunities on the horizon. As usual, all members […]

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OHA Election Portal Now Open! Cast Your Vote!

Vote for your next First Vice President, Council members, Nominating Committee members, and Committee on Committee members The Oral History Association thrives because of the active participation of its members. By voting for OHA’s leadership, you’re elevating the voices that represent your values and that will shape the programs, initiatives, and policies that impact all

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Announcement with an illustration of a person writing, text reads: Last call. Scholarships for the OHA Annual Meeting 2025. Due Friday, June 27 @ 11:59 pm CDT.

Last Call: Annual Meeting Scholarship Applications due Friday!

Planning to attend the 2025 OHA Annual Meeting in Atlanta? Whether you’re presenting, not presenting, or joining us from outside the U.S., you can apply to our scholarship funding to help offset the cost of attending. We offer three types of scholarships: OHA encourages applications from students, professionals, and community practitioners from a wide range

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NEXT WEEK: Join our Community Support Space focused on Regional Oral History!

We designed the Community Support Space series to facilitate discussion about the issues and concerns all of you, the OHA community, are currently facing, and any opportunities on the horizon. For the next open forum, we’re giving special attention to people working on regional oral history projects or who are in regional oral history groups.

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Lunch & Learn: Oral History as a Teaching Tool

Join our virtual roundtable conversation on teaching oral history! Get practical advice from teachers who have experimented with bringing oral history into their classrooms. We’ll discuss a range of options, from having students analyze an existing oral history interview to creating opportunities for students to conduct their own interviews. Our goal is for participants to

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The cover of Oral History Review features a man speaking and gesturing while being recorded on camera. A map is visible behind him, and the camera display shows his image. The issue focuses on oral history and disability.

OHR Extra! Posts Highlight Oral History and Disability

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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Wide stone steps lead up to the white dome of the United States Capitol building, framed by a cloudy blue sky and trees, with an American flag flying above the columns—an iconic setting for an oral history project on federal employees under the Trump administration.

Call for participants: New joint Oral History Project on Federal Workers!

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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