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Follow OHA on Instagram — a new way to stay connected

Social media serves as a means of keeping the world connected. Various platforms, including Twitter and Facebook, promote that connection primarily through words, as we learn to make our opinions concise while tweeting or keep in touch with people through Facebook messages. Instagram is a social media platform that focuses on photographs, and those visuals […]

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Throwback Thursday greets 1982…

Follow our weekly series, Throwback Thursday, designed to help celebrate 50 years of OHA. We’ll profile a year in the life of the organization each week with photos, logos, and highlights taken from the Oral History Association Newsletter. We welcome your memories, photos, and comments at oha@gsu.edu. OHA in 1982… Foxfire cast members Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn, and

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Throwback Thursday…Oral historians at work in 1981

Follow our weekly series, Throwback Thursday, designed to help celebrate 50 years of OHA. We’ll profile a year in the life of the organization each week with photos, logos, and highlights taken from the Oral History Association Newsletter. We welcome your memories, photos, and comments at oha@gsu.edu. OHA in 1981… Shirley Stephenson, Stephen Stern, and Stephen Colston, charter

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International Committee Blog

Oral History Association International Scholarships Sixteen international scholarship applications were received this year and the decisions on which to fund were very challenging for the committee. In the end, five scholarships were awarded: Joana Craveiro, Portugal Marella Hoffman, UK Meera Anna Oommen, India Annie Pohlman, Australia Samantha Prendergast, Australia Congratulations to you all! Your attendance

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OHA begins search for host institution and Executive Director

Search for Host Institution and Executive Director Request for Proposals The Oral History Association (OHA), the principal organization of practicing oral historians in the United States, is seeking an institutional home for its executive office and staff effective January 1, 2018. As part of this search, the OHA plans to hire a new Executive Director

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Throwback Thursday …OHA in 1980

Follow our weekly series, Throwback Thursday, designed to help celebrate 50 years of OHA. We’ll profile a year in the life of the organization each week with photos, logos, and highlights taken from the Oral History Association Newsletter. We welcome your memories, photos, and comments at oha@gsu.edu. OHA in 1980… L-R Martha Ross, James W. Hammack, Jr., Collum

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Registration opens for 50th anniversary meeting in Long Beach

Registration is open for the 2016 Oral History Association annual meeting! The 2016 meeting will capture the spirit of the first National Colloquium on Oral History in 1966 by introducing lively theoretical and methodological discussion space, examining current and ongoing work, as well as looking toward the future of the field. The theme of “OHA@50: Traditions, Transitions

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Throwback Thursday meets ’79

Follow our weekly series, Throwback Thursday, designed to help celebrate 50 years of OHA. We’ll profile a year in the life of the organization each week with photos, logos, and highlights taken from the Oral History Association Newsletter. We welcome your memories, photos, and comments at oha@gsu.edu. OHA in 1979… JFK Library, dedicated in 1979  OHA President Moss

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President’s Letter

By Anne Valk, Williams College The extraordinary election season that we are currently enduring has given me many reasons to contemplate the relationship between history and memory.  A large field of candidates is rapidly winnowing to a handful albeit with many surprises along the way.  What seemed like a foregone conclusion last year — a

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