Glimpse of the Job Are you passionate about preserving the rich tapestry of human experiences and stories? Join our team in the exciting new role of Oral Historian and play a vital part in preserving the rich history of Texas A&M University! The Texas A&M University Special Collection and Archives Division is looking for an […]
In our first installment of Project Interviews, we spoke to Project Manager Liz Strong and Communication Designer Chris Pandza from the Obama Presidency Oral History at Incite, Columbia University. For this discussion, and as this is a U.S. presidential election year–perhaps the most important one of our lifetimes–we decided to move beyond the “5 questions” […]
In “A Black Women’s Practice: Oral History from Fisk University’s Ex-slave Narratives and the Black Women Oral History Project” in the fall 2024 issue of OHR, historian Anna Kaplan questions the dichotomy that oral historians have developed in recent years regarding the field’s origins and genealogy that pit its academic roots against its radical ones. […]
We ask authors of books reviewed in Oral History Review to answer 5 questions about why we should read their books. In our latest installment of the series, former co-editor, Abigail Perkiss, discusses her book, Hurricane Sandy on New Jersey’s Forgotten Shore, which is reviewed in the latest issue of OHR. Give us the elevator pitch for your book. […]
Vanderbilt makes available the extraordinary Phil Schaap Jazz Collection Because the development of jazz coincided with the inventions of recording and broadcasting, its story became an early oral history genre. Much of its history was told by the musicians who also played it, and many of their accounts were preserved on disc, tape and radio […]
Look for us at these upcoming events at the OHA Annual Meeting! Thursday, October 31 10-10:30 AM Coffee & Meet the Oral History Review Team Friday, November 1 8:30-9:30 AM “The Past – but Mostly Present and Future – of Academic Publishing and the Oral History Review” – Roundtable Chair: Holly Werner-Thomas, Oral History Review Stephen […]