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 […]
Author: Oral History
Oral history, collective memory, and community among cloistered nuns – OUPblog
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 […]
Special issue of the Oral History Review: “Listening to and for LGBTQ Lives”
Deadline for submissions: September 1, 2014 Publication date: Winter/Spring 2016 By Stephanie Gilmore, PhD As we commemorate anniversaries, such as the upcoming 45th anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Riot in New York City, and challenge recent developments, including the criminalization of same-sex sexuality in Uganda, scholars, activists, and citizens are compelled to examine and deepen […]
Oral History Review’s Short Form Initiative
View Post on OUP Blog By Caitlin Tyler-Richards On behalf of the Oral History Review editorial staff, I am excited to publicly announce the journal’s latest project: the short form initiative. What is this? (I imagine everyone wondering aloud with feigned nonchalance.) Well, while the typical OHR article tends to fall between 8,000 to 12,000 […]
Secrets from Belfast – How Boston College’s oral history of the Troubles fell victim to an international murder investigation
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.
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
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
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 […]
Oral History in Motion: Movements, Transformations, and the Power of Story
2014 OHA Annual Meeting October 8-12, 2014Madison, WisconsinMadison Concourse Hotel Deadline: February 1, 2014 Motion suggests many things: action and transformation; dynamism and fluidity; migration and the power to move. By its very nature, oral history is constantly in motion – in the evolving relationship between the two parties in an interview; in the interplay […]
Oral History: CMU linguistics professor charts the city’s history through its language
Oral History: CMU linguistics professor charts the city’s history through its language For years, Carnegie Mellon University professor Barbara Johnstone has been the world’s foremost expert on Pittsburgh’s unique speech patterns. But don’t expect to use her book Speaking Pittsburghese: The story of a dialect as a phrasebook for negotiating the Strip District on a […]
