The biannual Oral History Review (OHR) is the U.S. journal of record for the theory and practice of oral history and related fields. It is published by the Oral History Association housed at Baylor University. The current editor is Holly Werner-Thomas. You can reach her via email at holly@hollythomasoralhistory.com. For more information about the journal and to subscribe, see About the Oral History Review. To submit a research article, please see the Article Submission Guidelines. For inquiries regarding submitting reviews for our book and media sections, see Book and Media Review Submissions. And if you have an idea, notice, or question, for OHR Extra!, our online content publication, please contact the Media Review Editor Bud Kliment via email at ohrmedia@outlook.com.
About the latest volume (52.2)
In the fall issue of the Oral History Review oral historians Nicki Pombier and Liza Zapol ask the question, “Where’s the joy?” of oral historians everywhere whose average approach–albeit with good cause–is to focus on trauma, in “Serious Play: Teaching to Play in Oral History”. In this issue, we are also fortunate to feature two articles whose authors are primarily linguists and whose training has given them insights into the use and structure of language, authors who use archives in innovative ways to bring forth original findings, authors who focus on post-conflict studies, and still more who interrogate intergenerational issues. One, “You Folks Are the Ones That Are Going to Carry On”: Conducting Cross-Generational Oral Histories About the HIV/AIDS Crisis” concerns the AIDS crisis in its first two decades, while the other, from Cyprus, analyzes family history. The current issue also includes articles on Argentina, and “The Afterlives of the Tenth Panchen Lama in China’s Tibet,” as well as community-based projects from Kansas and Colorado. Of note, we have four media reviews in this issue, including two that highlight music, an oral history of Pitchfork, and Yale’s Oral History of American Music (OHAM) archive. Among our book reviews this fall is The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop from author Jonathan Abrams.
Note: OHA members receive digital access to the Oral History Review, current and past issues (back to 1973). Members can also opt in to receive print issues of the journal twice a year.*
- Individual Members
- Online access to the journal is available to individual members through the OHA member website. Members log in and select the OHR Online tab on the member menu to reach the OHR archive hosted by Routledge, Taylor & Francis. To join and receive the journal, visit the OHA member website.
- Institutional Subscribers
- Online access to the journal is available to institutional subscribers on the Routledge website.
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