Join us as OHA kicks off a new weekly series, Throwback Thursday. We’ll profile a year in the life of OHA 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. From Volume 1, No. 1, June 1967 Excerpts from “Meeting on […]
Many thanks to International Committee member Mirek Vaněk for writing the following blog this month: New Release: Velvet Revolutions. An Oral History of Czech Society Miroslav Vaněk Pavel Mücke The Velvet Revolution in November 1989 brought about the collapse of the authoritarian communist regime in what was then Czechoslovakia. It also marks the beginning of
In 1993, the Oral History Association established a series of awards to recognize outstanding achievement in oral history. The awards highlight exemplary oral history work completed in the past year. OHA will present awards at the 2016 annual meeting in Long Beach for outstanding use of oral history in several categories. Nominations for the awards are
I am deeply saddened to announce the passing of Dr. Horacio Roque Ramirez, a groundbreaking scholar-activist in queer and Latino/a oral history, who gave over a decade of devoted service to the Oral History Association. I first met Roque Ramirez in 1998 at the Annual Meeting in Buffalo, New York, where his presentation “Between Sex
Many thanks to International Committee member Hannah Gill for writing the following blog this month: The New Roots/Nuevas Raíces Latino Oral History Initiative Launches Bilingual Digital Resources The growth of Latino communities in the U.S. South is one of the most significant demographic changes in the recent history of the nation. The New
Nearly three dozen institutions and individuals contributed sponsorship support to the 2015 OHA conference in Tampa. Our sincere thanks to the following: Arizona State University Baylor Institute for Oral History Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University Center for Oral and Public History, California State University, Fullerton Chemical Heritage Foundation The Citadel Oral History Program Columbia
You know you’re in Tampa, Florida, when the walkway from the conference hotel to the Tampa Bay History Center warns you to keep your eyes peeled for the iconic Florida creatures. More than 420 oral historians from around the nation and from nine foreign countries examined stories of social change and social justice through an
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Clifford M. Kuhn, the Oral History Association’s first executive director and a history professor at Georgia State University renowned for his passion for Southern history and for just about everything else he encountered, died Nov. 8 following a heart attack. He was 63. A memorial service was held on Dec. 13 at 1 p.m. in the
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by Anne Valk, Williams College I write this only days after Cliff Kuhn’s sudden death. I cannot imagine the Oral History Association without Cliff’s commanding presence; this sentiment has been echoed by many people who have communicated similar shock and grief. As the reality of this loss sets in, OHA members have begun to share
Oral historians have until Jan. 6, 2016, to submit comments on a proposed landmark rule change that would exempt oral history and other related scholarship from federal rules aimed at protecting research subjects. Initially intended to protect subjects of biomedical and behavioral research, the rules promulgated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’
Call for Papers OHA Annual Conference Oct. 12-16, 2016 Long Beach, California Renaissance Hotel “OHA@50: Traditions, Transitions and Technologies from the Field” is the theme of the 2016 Oral History Association 50th anniversary meeting, set for Oct. 12-16 at the Renaissance Hotel in Long Beach, California. The OHA invites proposals that reflect on the
Remembering Cliff By Linda Shopes, Carlisle, Pennsylvania I can’t remember when I first met Cliff – I thought it was sometime in the late 1970s or early 1980s, when he was conducting interviews for Living Atlanta and I was involved with the Baltimore Neighborhood Heritage Project, but Cliff said that wasn’t so. At any rate,
