Post by Mark Cave, Senior Curator and Oral Historian, The Historic New Orleans Collection This month the International Committee’s blog has been written by Mark Cave, Senior Curator and Oral Historian at The Historic New Orleans Collection about his experience as part of an exchange program in France. He hopes to have a more detailed […]
Kim Lacy Rogers, a leading figure in oral history, unexpectedly died on Friday, February 21 at her home in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where she was Professor of History and American Studies at Dickinson College. Although continuing to teach, she had been in declining health. She was a few days shy of her 63rd birthday. Soon
The first volume of Untuwe Pi Kin He (Who We Are in Dakota), an oral history project of the First Nations peoples of Manitoba, is now in print. Read more from The First Perspective.
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See https://blog.oup.com/2014/01/oral-history-review-short-form-initiative for more details.
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Blog by Cliff Mayotte, OHA Education Committee “There’s so much to a person we don’t see on first glance that helps define them, and once we hear their story its like they become a different person.” – Student, 826 Chicago Why don’t we use the word “love” very often as a vital component in teaching
UC Berkeley’s Regional Oral History Office is thrilled to announce our 2014 Advanced Oral History Summer Institute, which will be held at UC Berkeley from August 11-15. After taking a hiatus last summer, we have made some changes to our always sold-out program. This year our focus will be on the “lifecycle of an interview”
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With the click of a mouse, the world now has access to the Las Vegas African American Experience Project, a vast collection of history now on the web. Claytee White, Director of the Oral History Research Center says a lot effort went into this, from oral interviews to a vast collection of photographs, manuscripts, articles
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post by Leslie McCartney, International Committee Web Liaison The Oral History Association’s annual meeting will be held in Madison, Wisconsin from October 8-12, 2014. Each year the International Committee offers scholarships to international presenters for the annual meeting. We encourage applications from a diverse population of people who might contribute to the association’s annual meeting. We
Post by Leslie McCartney, International Committee Web Liaison This year, the International Oral History Association’s 18th Conference will be held in Barcelona Spain on July 9-12, 2014. The conference theme is ‘Power and Democracy: the many voices of Oral History’. From the IOHA website: The force of democracy as well as the resistance it has met
Post by Rachel F. Seidman, Associate Director, Southern Oral History Program In March of last year, Lisa Nagel, Head of St. Anne’s School in Annapolis, Maryland, invited Felice Belman, then Editor in Chief of the Concord Monitor newspaper, and me to lead a workshop on interviewing, historical research and oral history. The eighth grade students at this
More than 3,000 of the National Archives of Singapore’s oral history interviews will be available to stream online through their new web portal. Read more.
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A new exhibition opening today at Hill Memorial Library showcases the historic trail to racial integration and the progression of civil rights at the University and in Baton Rouge. The goal of the exhibition is to reveal the various perspectives of integration and civil rights at the University, said Jennifer Abraham Cramer, director of LSU
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