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The NEH announced their new Positions in Public Humanities, which are now part of the America’s Historical and Cultural Organizations (AHCO) grant program. Positions in Public Humanities are intended to reinvigorate the interpretation of the humanities at museums and historical organizations. As part of an AHCO grant request, organizations are invited to request a supplement […]

Juliana Delgado conducted interviews with four gay and transgender Latin American immigrants who tell of coming to San Francisco in the 1980s and the ways in which they survived, built, changed (and were changed by) the city. This small compilation of oral histories maps Latin queerness as seen and lived in Spanish: It highlights the

The Oral History Forum d’histoire orale is proud to announce a new resource: Annotated Bibliography of Oral History in Canada: 1980 – 2012 by Kristina R. Llewellyn and Dana Nowak (Renison University College, Waterloo University) https://www.oralhistoryforum.ca Abstract: Oral history in Canada has flourished over the past two decades. There is a lack of knowledge, however,

More than 1,800 oral histories of Wisconsin veterans, dating back to the program’s start in 1994, are on cassette tapes, CDs and now digital recordings. The museum hired its first full-time oral historian in 2011 for a two-year term. The position becomes permanent later this summer, though it will no longer be full-time, according to

Oral history plays a starring role in the latest episode of BackStory – a public radio program that explores major ideas, themes, and features of American life through three centuries of history. The episode looks to the history of the Mississippi River, and includes a segment on the Great Flood of 1927 – told from

C-Span presents an oral history with Michael Conway, Michael Conway, who served as counsel to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee during their impeachment inquiry. Mr. Conway talks about meeting Bill and Hillary Clinton and John Doar during his time at Yale Law School, and about working for Doar who served as special counsel to the

From Dreams & Visions… to Reality, a documentary video project featuring oral histories collected and filmed by students participating in the 2013 Apollo Theater Oral History Project at Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing and Visual Arts, is available at the project website.

Project chair Iris Buhl led a project to document LGBT life in Middle Tennessee before the landmark Stonewall uprising in 1969. Read more at the Nashville Scene.