OHA News

The Brooklyn Collection at the Brooklyn Public Library is creating an oral history project to document the ways that Hurricane Sandy has affected members of the Brooklyn community. The project, directed by outreach librarian June Koffi, will consist of interviewing participants about how they prepared for the storm, their experiences during the hurricane and how they […]

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender alumni attendants at the recent Every Voice conference had the opportunity to record their personal narratives as part of an audio and visual oral history project organized by the Alumni Association of Princeton University and funded by the institutional equity and diversity efforts of the Office of the Provost. Read more from

University of Nevada, Reno Assistant Professor Alicia Barber will be presented the sixteenth Santini Cup at the Nevada Debate and Oral Communication Awards Ceremony held on May 7. Barber has been a member of the faculty in the Department of History at the University since 2003. She is director of the University of Nevada Oral

Christopher Newport University’s History department recently created a project that documents the role the civil rights movement had on the area through a program called The Hampton Roads Oral History Project. The project began as part of the “The Long Civil Rights Movement” course offered in the fall of 2012 by history professor, Dr. Laura Puaca. The

A multimedia exhibit featuring recordings of firsthand accounts of the April 27, 2011, tornado, its aftermath and the city’s recovery opened Tuesday morning at the Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum. “Listening to the Storm: A Natural Disaster in Retrospective,” an oral history project centered around the storm, captured the stories of city leaders, storm survivors, first

First-year students at Loyola University New Orleans are video documenting rare oral histories of New Orleans as part of their classes, including little-known stories of the legendary Dooky Chase Restaurant. Using Loyola’s new Documentary and Oral History Studio, the freshmen interviewed former employees who worked during the restaurant’s beginnings in the 1940s and 1950s. Read more

In an effort to provide access to oral histories and find creative ways of showcasing an interview/interviews in the context of how they relates to and interact with other primary source material, the Office of Oral History, South Caroliniana Library created an online exhibit to begin to tell the story of a now-defunct South Carolina spring

The Centre for Public History, Bangalore has created a certificate program to train Indian historians in the craft. Read more about the announcement or the project.

Groundswell: Oral History for Social Change announces a new blog: Our new Groundswell blog is up and running! The blog is a participatory space for discussing experiences and ideas related to conducting oral history for social change. The introductory post lists some potentially exciting issues for discussion: https://www.oralhistoryforsocialchange.org/blog/