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OHA announces new pamphlet on Veterans Oral History

In collaboration with the Library of Congress Veterans History Project, the Oral History Association announces a new pamphlet titled Doing Veterans Oral History. The pamphlet, written by OHA member Barbara W. Sommer, will be available to purchase at the Annual Meeting in Tampa and online at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Preview the cover at Doing Veterans Oral History.

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Annual Meeting Spotlight: Documenting Ferguson

Documenting Ferguson: Oral History, Virtual Technologies, and the Making of a Movement The Saturday plenary session at the OHA annual meeting will explore issues of historical recovery posed by the mass protests against state sanctioned violence after the shooting of Michael Brown last August. As national attention turned to this little known city in St.

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International Scholarship recipients to present at OHA annual meeting

This is our last blog highlighting abstracts of papers to be given at this year’s OHA Annual Meeting in Tampa by the International Committee Scholarship recipients. Christin Quirk: Panel: Life Stages and Identity Presenting Author on individual submission: Single and Lesbian Mothers: Narratives of Resistance and Change While it is widely accepted that political activism by

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Oral history recommended to be excluded from IRB review!

On September 8, 2015, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a set of recommended revisions to the regulations concerning human subject research. Specifically, it recommended that oral history be explicitly excluded from review by institutional review boards, or IRBs, and alluded to the fact that oral history already has its own code

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2015 Emerging Crises oral history grant winner

The 2015 Emerging Crises Oral History Research Fund grant was awarded to Groundswell: Oral History in Movements to End Police Brutality, a collaborative oral history partnership between Groundswell and three partner organizations: The Forced Trajectory Project, the Book of Healing, and Freedom Summer 2015. Groundswell is a network of oral historians, activists, cultural workers, community

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Hari Kondabolu to perform at OHA annual meeting

Human rights activist and comedian Hari Kondabolu will perform at the Oral History Association annual meeting on Friday, October 16, 2015 at 8 pm.  Introduced by oral historian Tony Cherian, Hari will remain after the performance for a question and answer session. Hari Kondabolu is a Brooklyn-based, Queens-raised comic who the NY Times has called “one of the most exciting

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