In OHR’s spring 2023 issue,scholar Estelle B. Freedman shares her findings from a macro-level analysis of oral history databases in order to analyze women’s memories and responses to sexual harassment and violence. Freedman’s research shows the potential of applying digital humanities tools for distance reading to the close reading of intimate details of oral histories. […]
In OHR’s spring 2023 issue, scholar Katherine Waugh analyzes the methodological challenges oral historians face with technological fluctuations. Focusing on the post-pandemic wave of remote interviewing that has expanded oral historians’ ability to conduct interviews, Waugh considers the difficulties that scholars face in “connecting” to narrators in a virtual world. “Failing to Connect? Methodological Reflections on Video-Call […]
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, Michael Patrick Cullinane discusses his book, Remembering Theodore Roosevelt: Reminiscences of His Contemporaries which is reviewed in the latest issue of OHR. Read Rachel B Lane’s review of Remembering Theodore […]
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, Chia Y Vang discusses her books Fly Until You Die: An Oral History of Hmong Pilots in Vietnam War and Prisoner of Wars: A Hmong Fighter Pilot’s […]
In OHR’s spring Issue, scholar Renata Schellenberg analyzes the Blue Book, a document dependent on oral testimonies that reported the abuses that native South West Africans suffered under German colonial hands. Her study provides a new perspective on the Blue Book by critically analyzing the political intentions of the document and the historical circumstances of […]
This week, our guest contributor José Ignacio Mogrovejo discusses his use of oral history narratives to explore Peruvian War veterans’ recollections of their youth prior to the Peruvian Ecuadorian War of 1941. By José Ignacio Mogrovejo Childhood, both as an idea and a biological experience, has been a highly contested concept in the social […]
We ask authors of projects reviewed in Oral History Review to answer 5 questions about why we should read their projects. In our latest installment of the series, Vann Newkirk II discusses his podcast Floodlines produced through The Atlantic, which focuses on the the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. Sheldon Yeakley’s review of the Floodlines podcast is […]
We ask authors of projects reviewed in Oral History Review to answer 5 questions about why we should explore their projects. In our latest installment of the series, Eric Marcus discusses the Making Gay History Podcast. Read Kae Bara Kratcha’s review discussing the recent season of Making Gay History Podcast drawing on the Studs Terkel Radio Archive. […]
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, Florence Descamps discusses her book Archiver la mémoire. De l’histoire orale au patrimoine immatériel. Simon-Olivier Gagnon’s review of Archiver la mémoire is now available online. What’s it about […]
In the latest installment of our recurring series focused on oral history and self care, Tanya Finchum, of Oklahoma State University’s Oklahoma Oral History Research Program, reflects on her experiences conducting oral histories when the stories hit close to home and how our emotions and individual pasts impact our work. See Tanya’s earlier post, exploring […]
