The Federal Writers’ Project, an initiative of the New Deal’s Federal Project One, included one of the first large scale oral history projects which employed out-of work writers and journalists to conduct interviews with 1000s of Americans, including many who had grown up enslaved. The narratives remains a vital record for understanding nineteenth and early […]
In our upcoming issue of OHR (49.2), Pippa Virdee discusses how shifts in how oral history has been documented and shared impact our understanding of the partition of India and Pakistan in her article “Histories and Memories in the Digital Age of Partition Studies.” Today, the 75th anniversary of Partition, is an apt time to reflect […]
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 what they made. In our latest installment of the series, Natalie Milbrodt and Melody Cao discuss the Queens Memory Podcast Season 3: Our Major Minor Voices. See Bridget Bartolini’s review of the Queens Memory Podcast, Seasons 1-2, in […]
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. […]
Librarian and oral historian Kae Bara Kratcha has contributed to the Working 2050 podcast, which draws inspiration from the landmark Studs Terkel book, Working, adapting the speculative fiction genre to imagine work in the year 2050. In this guest post, they share the premise for the podcast, and tease their recent OHR review of two […]
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 […]
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, Amy C. Evans discusses her project Houston’s Underbelly. Lauren Jacobsen-Bridges’ review of Houston’s Underbelly is available online and in OHR issue 48.2. What’s it about and why does it matter? […]
In the first of two installments, Benjamin Dangl writes 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. By Benjamin Dangl At the top of a winding street in La Paz, Bolivia, heading up from the […]
