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Q: Tell us about documenting the history of Minnesota’s deaf, deafblind, and hard of hearing community through oral-visual history.  A: Although this community has a long and rich history in Minnesota, people’s stories were scattered across the landscape. This project let us collect these stories and fill a long-standing gap in the historical record. We went

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

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

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