Connecting the Classroom and the Archive: Oral History, Pedagogy, & Goin’ North By Janneken Smucker, Doug Boyd, Charles Hardy III The Fall 2014 and Spring 2016 West Chester University (WCU) course “The Great Migration and Digital Storytelling,” (aka, Goin’ North) centered on a archival collection of oral history interviews conducted in the 1980s with African …
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Informed Accessioning: Questions to Ask After the Interview By Doug Boyd Overview I am, and continue to be, a strong advocate for effectively using the Internet for enhancing access to our rich collections of archived oral histories that have long languished on the physical and virtual shelves. I developed OHMS (the Oral History Metadata Synchronizer) as an impulse …
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Reservoir of Memories: A Student Oral History Project in Providence By Anna Wada and Nate Weisenberg In the fall of 2011, the two of us—along with fourteen other students, both graduates and undergraduates, in the Oral History and Community Memory class co-taught by oral historian Anne Valk and artist Holly Ewald—began an oral history project …
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Mapping Approaches To Oral History Content Management In The Digital Age By Michael Frisch, with Douglas Lambert Almost every traditional assumption about the collecting, curation, and uses of oral history is collapsing in the digital age. This is particularly true for a content management: providing meaningful access to specific content within and across long oral …
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Hydraulic Fracturing: An Oral History by Shanna M. Farrell and Anna Levy Audio Piece Producer: Hydraulic Fracturing: An Oral History is the work of a group of graduate students at Columbia University. Shanna Farrell, Anna Levy, Kristen La Follette, and Sophie Cooper began this project as part of a graduate fieldwork course. Inspired by the …
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Case Study: Why Oral History Matters The Experience of the Arab American National Museum by Anan Ameri The last few decades has witnessed the creation of a number of ethnic museums, such as the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, the Wing Luke Museum in Seattle, and the Smithsonian Institution’s National …
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Case Study: Mining Oral History for Enhanced Access by Jody Perkins and Becky Yoose Jody Perkins, Miami University Libraries, Oxford, OH Becky Yoose, Miami University/Grinnell College Libraries, Grinnell, IA* *Becky was working at Miami University during the project. She has since started working at Grinnell College. This paper was presented as a poster at the Society …
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Case Study: “Visualizing Oral History” by Mark Tebeau The oxymoron embedded in the title reveals the contradiction behind any attempt to “visualize” oral history for historical curation. One could argue that oral history and, more broadly, sound, are such fundamentally aural experiences that they can’t be visualized at all. Even so, for historians, the meaning and …
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Case Study: Oral History in the Classroom by Glenn Whitman At its core, an oral history interview is story telling. So I want to begin this case study by telling you the story of the creation and evolution of the American Century Oral History Project, the largest pre-collegiate oral history project in the United States. …
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