The Audiences Taste

Our scientific and cultural lessons are in a way that we have just learnt to pay attention to the producers and their productions and make different statements about their quality and quantity. We like to talk about the weak points of the writers, historians and researchers or criticize a book or their released articles, and sometimes inflict deep and tough injuries on them. Undoubtedly, this kind of behavior and function is the result of our cultural and scientific lessons for which we have many justifications most of the times. But we can act in another way. It means that we can play a major role in boosting the capability and quality of the activists and their productions through self-criticism. It should be mentioned that we generally think that we must look at and make statements about the content of Oral History website and its weekly journal until the best quality is achieved.

From the Intimate Circle to Globalized Oral History

In what now seems a bygone golden age many of us argued that the role of oral history was to revolutionize the study of history by bringing heretofore neglected populations into that study and by recognizing their abilities to formulate their own histories. Despite what are now seen as glaring contradictions, enchanted by the insight that the interviews we gathered, and the people we talked to, told us more than simply information about the past, we began to argue that they were richer than repositories of information or archival documents, they were texts themselves.

Historical Studies Quarterly Published

Up to now 36 issues of Historical Studies Quarterly have been published by Political Studies and Researches Institute. The last 4 issues have been available published with a long delay and the last issue is still not up to date, since it is for the spring of 2012. Here is the list of contents for these four issues. It should be mentioned this quarterly is published in Persian but at the end of each issue the English translations of articles are presented.

NCDR obtains membership of American Oral History Association

WAM Abu Dhabi, Oct 31st, 2012 (WAM) -- The National Center for Documentation & Research (NCDR) affiliated to the Ministry of Presidential Affairs, has obtained the permanent membership of the Oral History Association (OHA). This came during NCDR participation in OHAs 46th Annual Meeting with the participation of more than 300 American institution specializing in the field of oral history. The membership allows the center to use the e-link of OHAs Oral History Department, which will provide NCDR with all editions of "Oral History Review", published semi-annually by Oxford University Press presenting theoretical and methodological discussions taking place in the profession.

Oral history project records Vietnamese refugees journeys before they are lost to time

IRVINE, Calif. - The knock came at night more than 30 years ago. Hugo Van, then a young man, had a chance to flee newly communist Vietnam and walk to freedom. There were no guarantees, but Van didnt hesitate to take the risk. With a few hundred dollars, he and his younger sister got a car ride to a Vietnamese village, then a boat to Cambodia and began the trek across barren land until they were caught by Cambodian soldiers. For nearly two weeks, they were held in a camp where they were given wormy rice to eat and Van found himself staring down the barrels of six guns as guards attempted to attack his younger sister.

Oral history project captures Czech’s memories of World War II

“So they stood us up against the wall, and my little cousin, who was about 6, she saw her father. … She jumped off and went to him, and this guy said ‘We are ready to shoot, what is this, the kid?’ So the German commander said ‘Oh for heavens’ sakes guys, they’re just children and women, so why are we going to shoot them? What’s the sense of it? Let’s go.’” Klara Sever, recalling her experience as a Jew in the Slovak Republic during World War II.

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