Teaching Is Not a Business oupacademic: TODAY’S education reformers believe that schools are broken and that business can supply the remedy. Some place their faith in the idea of competition. Others embrace disruptive innovation, mainly through online learning. Both camps share the belief that the solution resides in the impersonal, whether it’s the invisible hand […]
Schizophrenia and Oral History oralhistoryreview: It’s been awhile, but the Oral History Review on OUPblog podcast is back! Today’s episode features OHR contributors Drs. Linda Crane and Tracy McDonough answering OHR Managing Editor Troy Reeves’s questions about the Schizophrenia Oral History Project and their article, “Living with Schizophrenia: Coping, Resilience, and Purpose,” which appears in […]
New oral history project documents LGBT life before Stonewall in Middle Tennessee uchicagolgbtqhistoryproject: We’re following the growth of local LGBT oral history projects, from Chicago to New York and San Francisco, and points in between.
Schizophrenia and Oral History It’s been awhile, but the Oral History Review on OUPblog podcast is back! Today’s episode features OHR contributors Drs. Linda Crane and Tracy McDonough answering OHR Managing Editor Troy Reeves’s questions about the Schizophrenia Oral History Project and their article, “Living with Schizophrenia: Coping, Resilience, and Purpose,” which appears in the […]
archivesofamericanart: usnatarchives: Join us on Thursday, April 3, from 9:30 to 4 pm at the National Archives Building in Washington, DC for an all-day Archives Fair! Enter through the Special Events Entrance on 7th St. and Constitution Ave. The DC Caucus of MARAC and the National Archives Assembly are co-hosting this all-day Archives Fair. Archives-related groups […]
Oral history, collective memory, and community among cloistered nuns – OUPblog This week, managing editor Troy Reeves speaks with scholar and artist Abbie Reese about her recently published book, Dedicated to God: An Oral History of Cloistered Nuns. Through an exquisite blend of oral and visual narratives, Reese shares the stories of the Poor Clare […]
Secrets from Belfast – How Boston College’s oral history of the Troubles fell victim to an international murder investigation
Will robots steal our jobs? The humble loom suggests not. Two hundred years ago the Industrial Revolution came to America on the banks of the Charles River in Waltham, Mass., where in 1814, the Boston Manufacturing Company built the first integrated textile mill. The mill was the brainchild of Francis Cabot Lowell, a Harvard graduate […]
Oral History Rules I’ve Broken Interviewed people I know well Had multiple interviews with either 2 or 3 narrators at a time In said interviews I was not miked and when there were 3 people, neither was one of the narrators. Staunchly avoided chronological questions Conducted interviews at 2:30 a.m. Conducted interviews after sharing more […]
The Struggle For Workers Rights In The 1970s South In the 1970s, the small town of Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina was dominated by the J.P. Stevens textile mills, which controlled many aspects of its workers’ lives. A coalition made up of workers from different races, genders and religious backgrounds came together and won the right to a […]
