The mission of the Summersell Center is “to investigate and promote understanding of the history and culture of the American South through research and public programming.” The center has paired up with the Southern Oral History Program at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill to bring awareness to preserving oral history. UNC’s program dedicates itself […]
As we move toward the annual meeting in Oklahoma City, it’s incumbent that we fruitfully employ social media to maximize the impact of the meeting, and by extension OHA itself. Accordingly we are encouraging OHA members, H-Oralhist subscribers, and conference attendees to do the following: 1) Like us on Facebook. Only a minority of the
In addition to the regularly scheduled book signing, scheduled for Friday, October 11 from 3:15-3:45 in the meeting exhibit hall, the Oklahoma University Press will be sponsoring a special signing. Stephen Fagin, author of Assassination and Commemoration: JFK, Dallas, and The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, will be signing copies of his book at
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The Southern Foodways Alliance will be represented in one of the OHA 2013 Annual Meeting plenary sessions. Below is their announcement celebrating the oral history archives at the SFA. Welcome to the SFA’s first-ever Oral History Week. Did you know: We’ve had an online oral history archive since the inception of our oral history
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Recent recognition for students at Little Rock’s Central High School, who will be among the presenters at this year’s OHA annual meeting. Congratulations to the next generation of oral historians! https://www.southernliving.com/travel/new-heroes-civil-rights-little-rock-central-high-students-00417000083907/
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The first-ever Winter School on Orality, Memory and Social Change in India hopes to make good some of that loss. To be held from November 6 to 15 at Centre for Public History, Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology in Bangalore, the course will ‘focus on the role played by oral history in documenting
Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. launched its Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Oral History Project on the NTI website Sept. 19. The project features interviews with several people who were involved in various aspects of the NLCA negotiations over several decades, as well as a photographic history of the last several years. “This project presents very valuable historical
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This month we will be highlighting Power and Democracy: the many voices of Oral History. The XVIII International Oral History Conference to be held 9-12 July, 2014 in Barcelona, Spain. Information about the conference can be found at https://2014iohacongress.wordpress.com/. Please note that the deadline for the call for proposals has been extended to September 15,
The “Kentucky Bourbon Tales,” a collaborative effort by the Kentucky Distillers’ Association and the University of Kentucky’s Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, sits down Kentucky’s bourbon barons to tell the stories about themselves, their age-old craft and their products that are in global demand. The project’s first interviews were done late last month with the
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The Oral History Association is delighted to announce that the 2013 Emerging Crisis Oral History Research Fund goes to Carrie and Michael Kline of Talking Across the Lines for their proposed project “The Oil and Gas Rush in the Marcellus Shale Fields of West Virginia: An Emerging Crisis.” As in other parts of the United
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All of the rooms at the Skirvin, the conference hotel, have now been reserved. The OHA has booked additional rooms at the Hampton Inn and Suites, 5-6 blocks from the Skirvin, in the Bricktown district. Conference rates are $149 for a room with a single king-sized bed, and $154 for a room with double queen-sized
The newly incorporated Oral History and Folklife Research, Inc. announces their relaunched website. The website currently includes a link to a slide/audio presentation on the canneries that once dotted the coast of Maine. You can visit the website at www.oralhistoryandfolklife.org
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