OHA Partners

The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training (ADST) is a nonprofit organization established in 1986 that maintains and expands a database of over 2,500 full-life oral histories narrated by retired U.S. diplomats and other government personnel engaged in foreign affairs.  These individuals include ambassadors, Foreign Service officers, and members of other U.S. government agencies engaged in work abroad.  In addition, ADST interviews spouses and family members of these officials.  It has created online over 800 brief “Moments” in U.S. foreign relations.  With data as far back as the 1930s and up to the present, ADST oral histories provide primary sources for research, curricula, and diplomatic training.  They chronicle legal and workplace changes and changes in how Americans prepare for U.S. government service.  ADST oral histories and related items are available at its website: adst.org, attracting over 1,000,000 views a year, and at the Library of Congress.

Audio Transcription Center has an unparalleled reputation for excellence, trust, expertise, and prestige, built by over half a century of experience and service. It is this standing that afforded us the honor of being chosen as the transcription service for 6 U.S. Presidential Oral Histories.

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The Columbia University Center for Oral History (CCOH) is one of the world’s leading centers for the practice and teaching of oral history. CCOH achieves its mission from the union of the Oral History Archives at Columbia (OHAC) and the Columbia Center for Oral History Research (CCOHR). CCOHR, housed at INCITE, administers an ambitious research agenda with the goal to record unique life histories, document the central historical events and memories of our times, provide public programming, and to teach and do research across the disciplines.

Columbia University’s Oral History Master of Arts Program is the first program of its kind in the United States: a one-year interdisciplinary MA degree training students in oral history method and theory. At the cutting edge of the field, our faculty works across disciplines in training students to conduct ethical, rigorous, nuanced, culturally situated research. We support them in experimenting and finding new ways to use the methods and theoretical perspectives of oral history into the twenty-first century.

Duquesne’s history department offers a range of courses—at both the undergraduate and graduate levels—that cover a variety of historical periods and regions, from ancient world history to modern American history. As a liberal arts student, your opportunities to diversify your thinking through a challenging curriculum will equip you with essential skills that you—and future employers—will find invaluable. You will learn to think critically, to write with authority and to apply your knowledge of history to reimagine your world.

The Getting Word African American Oral History Project at Monticello is an ongoing, collaborative oral history project that charts the histories of families once enslaved by Thomas Jefferson. For the past thirty years, Getting Word oral historians and generations of brave and tenacious descendants have worked hand-in-hand to record their personal histories, with the steadfast resolve that their family’s histories are essential American history. Through the collaborative process of recording oral histories with generations of descendants, as well as building and maintaining relationships with descendant communities locally and nationally, Getting Word seeks to contribute to a growing national and international consciousness of the centrality of these voices in our shared American story.

The Margaret Walker Center is an archive and museum dedicated to the preservation, interpretation, and dissemination of African American history and culture. Founded as the Institute for the Study of the History, Life, and Culture of Black People by Margaret Walker in 1968, the Center seeks to honor her academic and artistic legacy through its archival collections, exhibits, and public programs.

Open to the public, the Center houses significant records like the papers of the late Margaret Walker; those of the former U.S. Secretary of Education, Roderick Paige; and a large oral history department that includes nearly 2000 interviews.  It also offers exhibit spaces that highlight the Center’s collections and the history of Jackson State University. The Oral History Division’s mission is to supplement written records by storing the accounts of African-American community members and cultural leaders.

The National Cultural Foundation (NCF) is a statutory body established by an Act of Parliament in 1983. Its mandate is to oversee the cultural landscape of Barbados. The NCF’s role revolves around the preservation of Bajan (Barbadian) cultural heritage and the production and promotion of all forms of art and culture, both tangible and intangible through developmental and commercial programmes and products. The functional spectrum ranges from, generating cultural awareness at the grassroots level to promoting cultural exchanges at an international level and implementing key research projects that privilege the voices and experiences of Bajans. In its developmental role, the Foundation uses culture as a tool for national development, fostering and supporting the various art forms and new cultural products. In its commercial role, the Foundation is responsible for the promotion, production and hosting of cultural festivals and associated events.

Key to the NCF’s research agenda is the NCF’s Oral History Programme, which was established and rebranded in 2013. It was designed to capture the cultural memories of Barbadians at home and in the Diaspora with a specific focus on elements identified within the domains of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) as defined by UNESCO: Oral traditions and expressions, including language as a vehicle of the intangible cultural heritage; Performing arts; Social practices, rituals and festive events; Knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe; and, Traditional craftsmanship. All oral history projects are crafted in strict adherence to best practices and ethical parametres stipulated by the International Review Board (IRB) and the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, to which Barbados is signatory.

The National Public Housing Museum is the only cultural institution devoted to telling the story of public housing in the United States. Its mission is to preserve, promote, and propel the right of all people to a place where they can live and prosper — a place to call home. The Museum is national, with its home in Chicago speaking to the long history of public housing and grassroots organizing in the midwestern city. NPHM’s flagship programs include the Artist as Instigator Residency, which sponsors one artist per year who is linking arts and culture to policy change; the Entrepreneurship Hub, an innovative placemaking initiative that invests in the existing assets of national public housing communities to generate ongoing civic dialogue and stimulate equitable economic development; and the Oral History Archive and Collective. The Archive is the only collection of interviews dedicated to the preservation of narratives related to publicly-funded housing in the US, and is in the midst of piloting an online Public Archive, while the Collective is a group of public housing residents and accomplices who conduct the interviews after learning oral history methods and values through the Museum’s Beauty Turner Academy of Oral History training series. Close collaboration and co-creation with public housing communities is at the core of NPHM’s approach to all of its public programming.

The Department of History at North Carolina State University has one of the top public history programs. The Public History M.A. and Ph.D. program is designed for public history professionals who want to advance their career opportunities with doctoral degrees and for students who wish to pursue public history careers in universities or leadership positions in public history venues. Student training includes concentrations in archives, oral history, community-empowered history preservation, museum studies, and more. This training allows Our students enter careers in archives, libraries, historic sites and parks, museums, and other cultural institutions as well as government and private corporations. With over 87% employment rate in the field, our alumni have worked in the National Park system, the Smithsonian museums, the National Archives, presidential libraries, state museums and archives, university special collections, and hundreds of local public history venues. NCSU Public History is where we put history to work.

North Carolina State University is a strong supporter of the Oral History Association.

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The Oklahoma Oral History Research Program (OOHRP), founded in 2007 as part of the Oklahoma State University Library and as an arm of the OSU Center for Oklahoma Studies, is located in Stillwater, Oklahoma and provides access to over 1,700 oral history interviews. With the goal of documenting and making accessible the history of Oklahoma and OSU through oral history interviews, the OOHRP promotes the collection, preservation and analysis of interview-based research by educating students, faculty, and community members in the methods and ethical standards of oral history.

To find out more about the OOHRP’s award winning research or access thousands of fully transcribed audio/video-recorded interviews in our online collection, visit: https://library.okstate.edu/oralhistory/.

The Orange County Regional History Center is home to over 35,000 artifacts, photographs, and archival materials documenting the rich heritage of Central Florida. The collection spans seven counties and thousands of years – from the ancient past, to contemporary events shaping Central Florida’s future.

Begun in the 1970s, the oral history collection now contains more than 800 interviews and continues to grow. Among the many subjects the collection covers are the Civil Rights Movement, World War II veterans, Vietnamese refugee migration, and the Pulse Nightclub shooting.

The History Center’s staff is doing award-winning work on the forefront of contemporary collecting. In addition to actively documenting significant events, movements, changes over time, and everyday life through the lens of oral histories, the History Center creates community-based exhibitions centered on local voices and is committed to preserving Central Florida’s continually unfolding story.

The Oral History Program’s collection–held at the UW Madison Archives–currently encompasses over 2,100 interviews (more than 5000 hours) touching on all aspects of the University’s history. The program, started in 1971 as part of the now defunct University History Project, had been led since June 2007 by Troy Reeves. A significant portion of total collection were conducted as a part of special series covering subjects such as the Teaching Assistants Strike of 1970, the UW Merger, the Arboretum, and printmaking at UW since World War II. Other significant historical themes run through many of the interviews, including the Great Depression, the return of the GIs after World War II, the protests against the Vietnam War, academic freedom, and issues regarding gender, race, and sexuality. Along with gathering (and preserving) oral histories, the program also conducts outreach, including oral history presentations and workshops, both on and off campus. It also collaborates with individuals and groups, also on and off campus, interested in conducting oral history interviews or projects.

The Wisconsin Veterans Museum Oral History Program seeks to document the experiences of Wisconsin people who served in the military. The museum’s oral history collection includes over 2,894 oral history interviews with Wisconsin veterans from all conflicts, from the Spanish American War to the present day, and all branches of service.

The program is managed by a full-time oral historian with the assistance of part-time staff members, interns, volunteers, and communities. The oral history program focuses not only on creating a record of our veteran-narrators’ stories, but also on the preservation and easy accessibility of these narratives for future generations online. Click here to search the oral history collection.

Many veterans also donate other materials pertaining to their military experience to help create a well-rounded picture of their service and to help to build the museum’s educational and research collections for future generations. To donate materials click here.