In OHR’s spring Issue, sociologist Jakub Mlynář uses conversation analysis to explore the nature of oral history, investigating how all participants—interviewers, interviewees, and later listeners and others users—make sense of the interview with cues such as temporal markers and existing knowledge. His article, “How is Oral History Possible? On Linguistically Universal and Topically Specific Knowledge,” […]
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 books reviewed in Oral History Review to answer 5 questions about why we should read their books. In our latest installment of the series, Irene Reti, Cameron Vanderscoff, and Sarah Rabkin discuss their book Seeds of Something Different: An Oral History of the University of California, Santa Cruz. Read former OHR editor […]
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 […]
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, James Hudnut-Beumler discusses his book, Strangers and Friends at the Welcome Table: Contemporary Christianities in the American South. Read Rachel Lane’s review of Strangers and Friends in our upcoming issue […]
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, Evan Faulkenbury discusses his book Poll Power: The Voter Education Project and the Movement for the Ballot in the American South. Thomas Saylor’s review of Poll Power […]
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, Gabriel Thompson discusses his book Chasing the Harvest: Migrant Workers in California Agriculture. The review of Chasing the Harvest will soon be available online. What’s it about and […]
In this installment of OHR Conversations, Oral History Review co-editor Janneken Smucker welcomes Lana Dee Povitz for a conversation about ethics in oral history, the delicate relationship between interviewers and narrators, the differences between oral history and journalism, and and what happens when you love your narrator too much. Povitz authored the recent, “Warm Distance: Grappling with […]
This week, Benjamin Dangl finalizes his two-part post about the Taller de Historia Oral Andina and how a small group of Indigenous Bolivian activists have been using oral history to decolonize their collective past since 1983. In case you missed it, find his first post on the Andean Oral History Workshop here. By Benjamin Dangl […]
