Oral historians and online spaces

In November 2012, a thread appeared on the H-Net Oral history listserv with the enticing subject line “experimental uses of oral history.” Amid assorted student projects and artistic explorations, two projects in particular caught my eye: the VOCES Oral History Project and the Freedom Mosaic. As we work towards our upcoming special issue on Oral History in the Digital Age, I’ve been mulling over how oral historians negotiate online spaces, and how the Internet and related advancing technologies can inspire but also challenge the manner in which they share their scholarship.

CSUB Workshops to help write Kern County Military Memoirs

CSU Bakersfield and the Kern County Library will present a series of workshops designed to help military veterans tell their stories through written and oral history. These will take place every other Tuesday at 5:30pm from April 9th to May 21st at the Beale Memorial Library, with a different theme every week. The classes are free and open to the public, and attendees may attend to any or all workshops.

What about the character of the girls?: Girls and Women’s Basketball in Illinois, 1968-1977

What about the character of the girls?: Girls and Women’s Basketball in Illinois, 1968-1977 Illinois hosted its first Girls’ State Basketball Tournament in 1977, five years after the U.S. Congress passed the landmark Title IX legislation. Title IX led to an explosion in the growth of women’s sports in the United States, dramatically changing American culture in the process.

Back to Business: A Next Step in the Field of Oral History (4)

Rob Perks has argued that “the primary imperatives and preoccupations of British oral history, crystallizing around the marginalized, the dispossessed and the disempowered has tended to exclude the study of other groups,” especially workforces in companies and organizations.41 Therefore, in the U.K. corporate organizational history is now a marginal field in oral history. The same holds true for all of Europe. Paying more attention to both the workforce and the executives of corporate organizations should make a contribution to oral history’s objective of having democratic merit.

E-Workshop: Getting Started with Oral History

The Institute for Oral History invites you to take part in our ninth online oral history workshop. Join us on August 7 and 14, 2013, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Central Daylight Time. A fee of $75.00 covers six hours of instruction, access to useful documents and forms, and continuing consultation for your oral history project.

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