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 (53.1)
It is hard to overstate what an abundance of ideas our spring issue holds. We have a special section, with three articles, on Oral History and AI that are sure to spark discussion, including a roundtable—a rarely-used format in the Journal—plus two others that consider oral history and AI from very different angles. The final, from Mary Larson, puts issues around AI in conversation with best practices. We also feature a survey article from Amy Starecheski on the history and evolution of oral history and anthropology that considers what each field can learn from the other and an applied oral history article from Lynn Lewis on participatory action research and her work with Picture the Homeless in New York City; Eleanor Paytner writes on displacement and Ukrainian reception in Italy, an article that grew out of her OHA Emerging Crisis Grant Award. Still other articles consider the use of gatekeepers in oral history projects (in the author’s case, in West Belfast, Northern Ireland) and political memory in China that reimagines deaf histories. Among our book reviews this spring is our second “Classics Revisited” feature (on Please Kill Me! The Uncensored Oral History of Punk); media reviews include the podcast (Studs Terkel’s) Division Street Revisited: Unfinished Stories from the 1960s and the film Becoming Thurgood: America’s Social Architect from The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) Oral History Project.
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.
*Several Oral History Review articles are also available through Open Access contracts. Look for the orange tab with the unlocked lock icon or search the Oral History Review via the “Open access articles” tab on the left-hand menu.