Hiroshima Travelogue - Episode 7

We get off the train at Hiroshima Station. Awaiting us is a welcoming Japanese delegation at the platform. They hand each one of us a beautiful flower; we happen to care more about the small flower than our luggage. They represent a non-profit organization (called MOCT), and will also be our host at the August-6 fete mounted in Hiroshima to mark the anniversary of the atomic bombardment. Outside of the station, a van is waiting for us. As we take our seats, they give us round sandwiches from McDonalds. They probably know about our eating habit so far as the sandwich is stuffed with fish.

On Making Oral Histories More Accessible to Persons with Hearing Loss

This essay recommends a series of steps that can be taken to make oral histories more accessible to persons who have hearing loss. Recommendations are offered for those who record oral history interviews and also for those who disseminate them. These recommendations are intended to mitigate some of the limitations on speech understanding that are experienced daily by the millions of people in the United States who have a hearing loss.

5th Global Conference: STORYTELLING

Human life is conducted through story, because the telling of stories comes naturally to us. Almost every time we speak we engage in storytelling, and sharing stories is arguably the most important way we have of communicating with others about who we are and what we believe; about what we are doing and have done; about our hopes and fears; about what we value and what we don’t. We make sense of our lives by telling the stories that we live; and we learn about other lives by listening to the stories told by others. Sometimes, under the influence of the culture in which we are immersed, we live our lives in ways that try to create the stories we want to be able to tell about them.

Trevor Lummis: Leading figure in the development of the oral history movement

The historian and sociologist Trevor Lummis, who has died aged 83, played a key role in the oral history movement, attempting to bring the voices, perceptions, beliefs and actions of ordinary people – which are often overlooked – into the general analysis of history. He shared this aim with other members of the movement, led by Paul Thompson, with whom he worked at the University of Essex. One of Trevor's contributions was to insist that oral accounts should be used not on their own but alongside the more traditional sources of historical research.

Our lessons with Martin Luther King: Eight students recall a special class (3)

After graduating from high school, Graham Prindle hit the road with a friend. They were hitchhiking to all four corners of the country. It was in the South where Prindle, who is white, said he first really understood racism. The "colored only" signs left him deeply disturbed. He had been involved in a youth movement, the National Student Association -- which he says was "a CIA front" -- but his first serious act to support civil rights was to quit a good-paying job in New York and move to Atlanta to take King's class.

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