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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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Feeling Tone: Bringing Studs Terkel’s Radio Archive to life

By Tony Macaluso, Director of Syndication WFMT Radio Network & The Studs Terkel Radio Archive Studs Terkel is best known in the world of oral history for his many curiosity-driven books (Working, Hard Times, The Good War, Race) that helped popularize oral history among the general public starting in the 1970s. Those wildly influential books

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Know that your vote matters

OHA members will elect a new first vice president and a new OHA Council member as well as three members of the OHA Nominating Committee in online voting this summer. Members will receive an email link in July with instructions for online voting until early September. Paper ballots will not be mailed to members. Choices

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