OHA News

The Oral History Metadata Synchronizer system is highlighted in the Lexington Herald-Leader. The system, pioneered by Doug Boyd, allows interviews to be tagged with keywords for easy searching and access. Read more about it on the Lexington Herald-Leader website.

Project Jukebox, part of the oral history program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, has received a grant from the North Pacific Research Board to create a new multimedia segment, “Sea Ice in Barrow.” The $61,205 grant will allow staff from UAF’s Elmer E. Rasmuson Library to record interviews in the Barrow area, and to

The Society of American Archivists is seeking nominations for Vice Chair/Chair Elect and Steering Committee for the Oral History Section. Additional information is available on the SAA website.

The NEH announced their new Positions in Public Humanities, which are now part of the America’s Historical and Cultural Organizations (AHCO) grant program. Positions in Public Humanities are intended to reinvigorate the interpretation of the humanities at museums and historical organizations. As part of an AHCO grant request, organizations are invited to request a supplement

Juliana Delgado conducted interviews with four gay and transgender Latin American immigrants who tell of coming to San Francisco in the 1980s and the ways in which they survived, built, changed (and were changed by) the city. This small compilation of oral histories maps Latin queerness as seen and lived in Spanish: It highlights the

The Oral History Forum d’histoire orale is proud to announce a new resource: Annotated Bibliography of Oral History in Canada: 1980 – 2012 by Kristina R. Llewellyn and Dana Nowak (Renison University College, Waterloo University) https://www.oralhistoryforum.ca Abstract: Oral history in Canada has flourished over the past two decades. There is a lack of knowledge, however,

More than 1,800 oral histories of Wisconsin veterans, dating back to the program’s start in 1994, are on cassette tapes, CDs and now digital recordings. The museum hired its first full-time oral historian in 2011 for a two-year term. The position becomes permanent later this summer, though it will no longer be full-time, according to

Oral history plays a starring role in the latest episode of BackStory – a public radio program that explores major ideas, themes, and features of American life through three centuries of history. The episode looks to the history of the Mississippi River, and includes a segment on the Great Flood of 1927 – told from