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 […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
uchicagolgbtqhistoryproject: A few months ago, the UChicago LGBTQ oral history project marked the beginning of our second full year of work with a program for Humanities Day. Monica’s lecture is now online, with introductions by Professor Linda Zerilli and Gina Olson of CSGS. Watch it here: “A Desire for History: Building Queer Archives at the […]
We have a bit of a #longread (long listen?) for y’all this week. First, in today’s podcast, managing editor Troy Reeves speaks with DePaul University English Professor and published author Miles Harvey about his recently published oral history collection, How Long Will I Cry?: Voices of Youth Violence. Not only does this collection have a fascinating origin […]
Oral history goes transnational – OUPblog Barring something unforeseen circumstances – looking at you, USPS – all subscribers should have received their copy of the Oral History Review Volume 40, Issue 2. We’re quite proud of this round of articles, which in the words of our editor-in-chief Kathy Nasstrom, “extends our editorial mission in two […]
oralhistoryreview: In celebration of Veterans Day, we’re pleased to share a conversation between Oral History Review managing editor Troy Reeves and Dr. Robert P. Wettemann Jr., director of the US Air Force Academy Center for Oral History. A historian at heart, Wettemann shares his thoughts on the importance of preserving veterans’ stories, using oral history […]
