CFP: Oral History and Education

Deadline for Abstracts: September 30, 2014 ,Deadline for Full Submissions: March 1, 2015 ,This collection will address oral history as a “best practice” for researching and engaging the past with students. The aim of this collection is to provide educators, students, and researchers with a comprehensive examination of the curricular innovations and pedagogical possibilities of oral history within formal and informal educational settings.

Traditional Government and Federal Recognition Bids Don’t Mix

While the Office of Federal Acknowledgment is reconsidering the rules and criteria for gaining federal recognition, it should consider the way oral history is understood in its evaluations of recognition petitions. Generally, oral histories are considered guideposts for interpreting the history and culture of a petitioning community. Oral histories, however, are not used as direct evidence. The logic here is very legalistic—in court a person’s pleas of innocence, while noted, are not understood as evidence, rather they are seen as a claim that needs discussion and are then considered with the entirety of the evidence.

Walnut Creek Historical Society

Walnut Creek Historical Society's oral history project captures memories for posterity: WALNUT CREEK -- Fifty years from now, when this city celebrates its 150th anniversary, no one will need to interview today's young people about what it was like to grow up in Walnut Creek. Their bazillions of Facebook posts, Tweets, Instagram pics and Vine videos will tell everyone more than they want to know. But for people who grew up and lived in Walnut Creek over the previous decades, there was no social media that lives forever on the Internet.

Last surviving crew member of Enola Gay dead at 93

ATLANTA – The last surviving member of the U.S. crew that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, hastening the end of World War II and moving the world into the atomic age, has died at age 93. Theodore VanKirk died Monday of natural causes at the retirement home where he lived in Georgia, his son Tom VanKirk said. VanKirk flew nearly 60 bombing missions, but it was a single mission in the Pacific that secured him a place in history. He was 24 years old when he served as navigator on the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress that dropped the first atomic bomb deployed in wartime over the city of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945.

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.