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Loyola students help preserve untold New Orleans stories with oral history project

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 […]

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Online Exhibit, Shivar Spring Co. & Tom McConnell: A Shared Story

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

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Archiving Family History

A very useful New York Times article on archiving family audio records features Bertram Lyons of the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.  Lyons is one of the contributors to “Oral History in the Digital Age” and to the most recent issue of The Oral History Review. Read “Tips on Archiving Family History, Park 1“

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Death of Martha Ross

The Oral History Association marks the death of pioneering oral historian Martha Ross on April 5th.  Martha was a long-time leader in the OHA, serving as president in 1985.  In 1976 she was a founder of Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region (OHMAR).  Martha set a high standard for excellence in oral history practice and

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The Mashapaug Project – Pushing the Definition and Impact of Oral History Work

Celebrating the release of Volume 40.1 of the Oral History Review, OHR Managing Editor Troy Reeves and contributors Anne Valk and Holly Ewald have a conversation about the Mashapaug Project, a collaborative community arts and oral history project on a pond in Providence, Rhode Island. Please give it a listen here.

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Oral History highlighted in the Chronicle of Higher Education

The Oral History Association and new Executive Director Cliff Kuhn are highlighted in a new article from the Chronicle of Higher Education: Georgia State U. Scholar Leads Strengthened Oral-History Group The Oral History Association’s first-ever executive director, Clifford M. Kuhn, must lead it through the rocky terrain of legal challenges and digital advances.

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Invitation to test on-line social screening platform

The Georgia Humanities Council (GHC), in partnership with the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Oral History Association (OHA), is sponsoring the first-look of a new webcasting technology that we believe will be of interest to educators, museum professionals, libraries, offices, and others. Developed by the Independent Television Service (ITVS), with support from the

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