The Oral History Association Endowment Fund invites contributions to the 50th Campaign, aimed at strengthening the OHA and extending its tradition of promoting excellence in oral history practice into the next half century. Donate online at www.oralhistory.org or by mailing your tax deductible contribution to: OHA, Georgia State University, P.O. Box 4117, Atlanta, GA 30302-4117. […]
First Vice President Todd Moye, University of North Texas OHA members elect new leaders Congratulations to the winners of the 2015 elections for OHA leadership positions. They are: * First Vice President—Todd Moye, University of North Texas * OHA Council Members—Allison Tracy, Kentucky Historical Society; and Claytee White, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Awards for exemplary oral history work in seven categories were presented to winners at the OHA presidential reception held at the Tampa Bay History Center. The winning individuals and projects are: OHA President Paul Ortiz congratulates Amy Starecheski for winning the Best Article Award. Article Award—Amy Starecheski for her article in the summer/fall 2014
This year’s Nobel Prize for literature went to a nonfiction writer from Belarus for chronicling the lives and times of people in the Soviet Union and the nations that succeeded it in works that combine journalism and oral history. The works of Svetlana Alexievich include Voices from Chernobyl, based on interviews with people in Ukraine
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Oral historians interested in documenting veterans’ experiences can turn to a new OHA resource, Doing Veterans Oral History by Barbara W. Sommer, a collaboration between the Oral History Association and the Library of Congress Veterans History Project. Sommer is an independent oral historian and longtime OHA member who has worked with countless community organizations and
The Call for Papers for the 50th anniversary Oral History Association annual meeting is open. Please submit online by January 31. Update as of February 2, 2016: The submission site is now closed. OHA will open the Call for Posters this spring.
On September 8, 2015, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a set of recommended revisions to the regulations concerning human subject research. Specifically, it recommended that oral history be explicitly excluded from review by institutional review boards (IRBs), noting that oral history already has its own code of ethics, including the principle
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A memorial service for OHA Executive Director Cliff Kuhn will be held in Atlanta on Sunday, December 13. The service will begin at 1:00 p.m. in the Speaker’s Auditorium at the Georgia State University Student Center, 55 Gilmer Street, Atlanta, GA 30303. The Student Center is at the intersection of Gilmer Street and Courtland Avenue.
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It is with great sadness I submit this monthly blog. The passing of Cliff Kuhn, the OHA Executive Director, is such a great loss and my sympathies go out to his family, friends and colleagues. The Oral History Association’s Annual Meeting in Tampa was excellent this year due to the efforts of Cliff and Gayle
We invite you to share your favorite stories and memories of OHA Executive Director, Cliff Kuhn.
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We are very sorry to have to share with you the news that our friend and OHA Executive Director Cliff Kuhn passed away on Sunday in Atlanta, surrounded as he usually was by loved ones. Surely we do not have to tell you what a loss this is–not just to his family and to us
The Oral History Association’s Annual Meeting in Tampa was excellent. I want to thank all who came to the International Committee meeting and thank our international scholarship recipients for their terrific papers. Here at the comments of two of the international scholarship recipients: My first experience at the OHA Annual Conference was fantastic. There were
