Oral History News
The University of Florida reports on a $150,000 grant to preserve African-American history in Alachua County. It’s always great to hear about more oral histories being taken. Once a generation dies...
View ArticleCall for Papers for the OHA
The Oral History Association has announced a call for papers for their 2010 annual meeting. With a theme of ‘times of crisis; times of change’ it should make for interesting reading.
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View ArticleGuide to Interview Techniques
The Study of History and Memory at Indiana University has a well done guide to oral history techniques which I think well reproduces what I’ve seen out of the best interviewers we’ve transcribed. Their...
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Bizarro Wordsworth
It seems we’ve come across the company that does the exact opposite of one of our services. While we often take handwritten documents and type them into electronic format, at Upper Hand Marketing it...
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WPA Oral Histories Archive
American Life Histories is an amazing collection of life histories compiled by writers for the WPA from 1936-1940. These oral history transcripts are an eye-opening thing to read through and also give...
View ArticleHow to Choose a Research Topic
A collection of interesting advice for researchers at the Successful Researcher blog.
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A Guide to Oral History Interviews
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has a fantastic guide to doing oral history interviews. Their guidelines clearly focus on interviews dealing the subject of the Holocaust, but there is...
View ArticleDefamation and Oral History
There is an interesting article at the Oxford University Press blog about the intersection of oral history and defamation claims. It points out the need for oral historians of all sorts to not only...
View ArticleThe Case for Transcription
Here you can read a thought provoking article about the need for more transcription in our increasingly media-laden world. Mike Bergelson of Cisco points out the productivity boons made possible...
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