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Challenges of Training in Oral History in Iran
Perhaps, talking about the challenges and obstacles would find meaning when the original subject has been accepted. This is different about oral history. Despite the use of this scientific method by many users and history researchers knowingly and unknowingly since more than four decades ago, the establishment of eight professional meetings and the participation of scientific circles including Isfahan University, there are still serious problems over the scientific and documented authenticity of data and oral history documents.
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Larry Bird vs. Dominique Wilkins duel
NBA.com released an oral history of the legendary Game 7 duel between Larry Bird-Dominique Wilkins in the 1988 NBA playoffs on Wednesday, the 25-year anniversary of the contest.
The game still resonates so many years later mostly because of fourth-quarter heroics from Bird and Wilkins. The former finished with 34 points, including 20 in the fourth quarter, to help Boston stave off a stiff effort from Atlanta, 118-116. Wilkins had 47 points, but was outproduced down the stretch (a description that seems unfair, given how brilliant he was) with "only" 14 points in the final period.
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Bret Harte students listen to living history
Wearing their pressed uniforms, veterans representing World War II, Korea, Vietnam and the Cold War era filed into the Bret Harte High School gym to participate in Bret Harte’s annual Veteran Oral History Project.
The project was started in 1997 by Bret Harte High School history teacher Jennifer Truman with the desire to teach outside the box.
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Essex Fire Museum in Grays given £39,500 grant
ESSEX Fire Museum has been given a £39,500 grant to create an oral history of Essex County Fire and Rescue Service.
The cash, from the Heritage Lottery Fund, will be used to capture the living memories of former firefighters and fire service staff and create a smartphone and tablet app which will enable virtual access to the museum.
Essex Fire Museum, in Hogg Lane, Grays, gives visitors the opportunity to take a fascinating look at the history of the Fire Service in Essex.
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News from the Library of Congress
Veterans History Project Recognizes Vietnam Veterans with Fourth Installment of Web Feature
The final installment of the Veterans History Project’s (VHP) year-long special "Experiencing War" website series recognizing the 50-year commemoration of the Vietnam War will launch May 24. "Vietnam War: Looking Back, Part 4," highlights the diverse wartime stories of veterans who served during the Vietnam War. The veterans in this series represent a variety of branches, service locations and military roles. These extraordinary personal accounts are digitized and accessible on VHP’s website, www.loc.gov/vets/.
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An 'unrecognized history' of black Vermonters given prominence
Newly designed Vermont African American Heritage Trail brings attention to the contributions of black Vermonters
African Americans have maintained a significant role in Vermont history, but their place often has been unrecognized, historians say.
The Vermont African American Heritage Trail, announced last month by the Department of Tourism and Marketing, is a guide to the personal stories of black Vermonters who helped to change the state’s identity.
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Oral History Weekly Magazine Aims and Regulations
Oral History Weekly Magazine wishes to create a suitable place for thoughts and idea development; Its main field would be “Oral History” and subjects as telling & writing memoirs, writing diaries, travelogues, chronologies, and all other subfields of history which are presented in the form of news, articles, reports, notes, interviews and memoirs can be included. There is no limitation on the length of would-be-sent materials.
Mentioning the name, academic background and email is necessary. Articles with complete references and bibliography are more credited and an abstract would quite helpful.
Weekly is not about to publish any material consisting insults and libels about other people or anything that brings anxiety to public opinion. Weekly can edit and translate the received materials.
The published articles and materials are only the writer’s ideas and Oral History Weekly Magazine has no responsibility about their content.
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The Center for Studies and Researches of Resistance Culture and Literature with subsidiaries of The Office of Resistance Literature and Art, and The Office of Islamic Revolution Literature, and as the executor of Iranian oral history plans and holy defense in Iran has been introduced in the British Oral History journal affiliated to the British Oral History.
Ahmad Ahmad Memoirs (35)
Edited by Mohsen Kazemi
Soureh Mehr Publishing Company
(Original Text in Persian, 2000)
Translated by Mohammad Karimi
The Sounds of Cell No. 21
It was about September or October of 1971 that one night they suddenly opened my cell’s door. I woke up frightened. They threw in a tall strong young man inside and closed the door. He sat down hugging his knees and crying without paying any attention to me.
I looked at him for some minutes. Then I came down from the platform and soothed him. I told him: “Stand up and sit on the platform.” He said that he could not. I helped him by taking his arm for sitting on the platform. It was clear that he had been tortured and beaten badly. His arms and legs were trembling. I held his leg and moved it. He shouted of pain. I covered him with the blanket. He went asleep of tiredness after so much cries of pain.
The next day when he was a bit better and had finished his crying, I asked him: “what have you done that they have done this to you?” He said: “Nothing! I only have broken some insulators. I mean we would go to the streets along with some of my friends and throw stones to insulators on power cables to break them. They chased and arrested us.” I was surprised of hearing this. I could not believe that they had beaten and tortured somebody that much hard just for breaking insulators and then bring him to political prison. |
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