uncoralhistory: Today is the 56th anniversary of the Little Rock Nine — the brave high school students who desegregated Arkansas schools in 1957. Though Brown vs. Board of Education mandated that schools be desegregated, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus prevented the students from attending Little Rock Central High School until President Dwight Eisenhower intervened and sent National Guard […]
2013 OHA will be much more than OK – OUPblog Excited about the upcoming OHA Annual Meeting, “Hidden Stories, Contested Truths: The Craft of Oral History”? Then be sure to check out our latest OUPBlog post, “2013 OHA will be much more than OK,” in which managing editor Troy Reeves badgers conference co-leaders Stephen Sloan […]
pag-asaharibon: The SaySay Project: Engaging the Filipino Community through Oral History “Hi, I’m Michael Nailat—originally from Oxnard, California and now living in Historic Filipinotown, Los Angeles.” So went the start of one video interview with Filipinos and Filipino-Americans, who stood in front of a camera as part of a storytelling initiative called the SaySay project, coordinated […]
organisedyouth: An oral history interview with Beverley Bryan, covering her years as a member of the British Black Panther Movement in the UK. Including her memories of her time teaching in supplementary schools. The interview was recorded on Wednesday 28th August 2013. Conducted by Keanna Williams and Harriet Hundertmark. This recording is part of the […]
oralhistoryreview: CSI: Oral History, an interview with David J. Caruso Everyone should head over to OUPBlog (or Soundcloud) to listen to our latest podcast. This week, managing editor Troy Reeves speaks with our new book review editor, David J. Caruso. David, in addition to fighting crime supporting the spread of innovative oral history research across academia, also […]
CSI: Oral History, an interview with David J. Caruso Everyone should head over to OUPBlog (or Soundcloud) to listen to our latest podcast. This week, managing editor Troy Reeves speaks with our new book review editor, David J. Caruso. David, in addition to fighting crime supporting the spread of innovative oral history research across academia, also serves […]
Women Who Rock Oral History Archive laura-in-libraryland: Interviews Awesome.
Good news, gentle readers! Oral History Review Vol 40, no. 2 is now available to online subscribers. In addition to numerous book, media reviews and a piece on OHR’s online adventures, we’re happy to share the following articles: “Vodou and Protestantism, Faith and Survival: The Contest over the Spiritual Meaning of the 2010 Earthquake in Haiti” by […]
uncoralhistory: uncoralhistory: “During my growing up time period, which would have been mainly the 60s and 70s, a huge women’s movement and yeah, I did feel a part of a big movement, which was a great feeling. I can remember one Christmas, my grandmother gave me this book that I wanted. It was a women’s, […]
There is no doubt that story-telling can be therapeutic. But, we as oral historians are trained to document while therapists are trained in their field with entirely different goals. Oral historians record stories that offer experiential information in order to create primary sources that are preserved and made available to the public. It is wonderful when, through the course of an oral history interview, we can help the interviewee heal as perhaps part of their therapy, but I believe that it’s best for oral historians to stick to the overall goal of documenting — while being especially careful with respondents who have recently experienced trauma.
Jennifer Abraham Cramer, director of Louisiana State University’s T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History, “Oral History in Disasters Zones."
[Staff note: In light of today’s anniversary, an excerpt from an interview we conducted with our media review editor about conducting oral history research following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.]
