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Considering Alice Wong’s Disability Visibility through an Oral History Lens

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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century (Vintage Books, 2020) is a collection of essays and other writings by disabled people. This is not a book of oral histories or a book that uses oral history as a method, but it’s nonetheless an important book for oral historians. To clear up any confusion, there […]

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Author Interview: Nora Ellen Groce

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First published in 1985, Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language is now widely considered a landmark disability study. Tracing hereditary deafness on Martha’s Vineyard, a coastal Massachusetts island, Nora Ellen Groce discovered, in her historical investigation, an uncommon incidence of deafness over multiple generations on the island, but also that deaf residents were accepted and involved

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Guest Post: Continued Open Access to Our Nation’s Records is Critical

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by Beth Maser, CEO and President, History Associates Incorporated (HAI) At HAI, we have been closely tracking the insights and online concerns our colleagues in the records management, archives, and historical consulting industries are raising regarding the recent firings and layoffs at the National Archives. To that end, we were heartened to see Maegan Vazquez write a piece on

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Extra! salutes the 2024 winners of OHA’s Mason Multi-Media Awards

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Announced at the recent annual meeting of the OHA, the Mason Multi-Media Awards recognize “outstanding oral history projects, collections, exhibits, and multimedia presentations for the public.”   According to Yolanda Hester, who chaired the committee that selected the winners and whose members included Barbara Truesdell and Max Peterson, “This year many exceptional projects were nominated, featuring

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Author Interview: Ricia Anne Chansky Takes on Hurricane María

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In the fall 2024 issue of OHR, Ricia Anne Chansky discussed why the Oral History Lab/Laboratorio de Historia Oral was born at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM) on September 20, 2017, in her article, “Oral History and the Climate Crisis: Listening in the Aftermath of Disaster”.  Here, she elaborates further about the destructive

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The Schaap Archive at Vanderbilt

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Vanderbilt makes available the extraordinary Phil Schaap Jazz Collection Because the development of jazz coincided with the inventions of recording and broadcasting, its story became an early oral history genre. Much of its history was told by the musicians who also played it, and many of their accounts were preserved on disc, tape and radio

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5 Questions About Hurricane Sandy on New Jersey’s Forgotten Shore

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We ask authors of books reviewed in Oral History Review to answer 5 questions about why we should read their books. In our latest installment of the series, former co-editor, Abigail Perkiss, discusses her book, Hurricane Sandy on New Jersey’s Forgotten Shore, which is reviewed in the latest issue of OHR. Give us the elevator pitch for your book.

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Author Interview: Anna Kaplan on Black Women’s Academic Oral History Roots

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In “A Black Women’s Practice: Oral History from Fisk University’s Ex-slave Narratives and the Black Women Oral History Project” in the fall 2024 issue of OHR, historian Anna Kaplan questions the dichotomy that oral historians have developed in recent years regarding the field’s origins and genealogy that pit its academic roots against its radical ones.

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