UW examines potential oil boom
CHEYENNE -- A team from the American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming is compiling an oral history about the potential oil boom here. The UW project involves videotaped interviews with residents in eastern Laramie, Goshen and Platte counties.Warren County History Museum looking for oral histories of WW II
Monmouth, Ill. — MONMOUTH — The Warren County History Museum honored World War II veterans with a presentation at their last open house. Approximately 37 WW II veterans attended the event in the Grande Gallery of the museum.Online Scrapbook Site Collects World War II Memories
Family history scrapbook company 1000memories will donate veterans' oral histories to the Library of Congress IDG News Service — An online family scrapbook company in San Francisco, 1000memories, is collecting oral histories from World War II veterans in Yountville, California, to share with the Library of Congress.Thousand Sacred Defense Book Fairs to open nationwide
The opening ceremony of Thousand Sacred Defense Book Fairs will be held this Friday, Nov.17, with the attendance of state and martial officials including Islamic Guidance and Culture Minister in Tehran's Friday Prayer's site.Thousands of Sacred Defense books to be donated
On the occasion of Book Week, Organization of Preservation and Publication of Sacred Defense Values in Mazandaran Province will donate 23,000 books, themed on Iraq's impose war against Iran, to the libraries of Mazandaran's universities, schools and Basij bases.4th academic book fair kicks off
The 4th academic book fair inaugurated this morning with the attendance of the deputy minister of Islamic Guidance and Culture for Cultural Affairs Bahman Dorri as well as the secretary of Book Week's headquarters Mohammad Allahyari.Sacred Defense book to be rendered into English, Arabic
Sacred Defense Values Publication and Preservation Organization in Mazandaran Province will translate two of its publications into English and Arabic.McCormick Foundation to fund black history project
CHICAGO — The McCormick Foundation is financing an oral history project that highlights the service of black soldiers.Oral history goes digital
For most people, history is just a jumble of dates – July 4, 1776, July 14, 1789, Nov. 22, 1963, April 4, 1968* - forgotten as soon as the test is over.Veterans war experiences live on through UCF oral-history project
After the land mine exploded, Richard Barber's right foot was gone. Moments earlier, Barber and two other soldiers had been riding in a jeep toward enemy lines on a bitterly cold day of the Korean War. The explosion killed the other men, but Barber was thrown out of the jeep and into a ravine. He might have bled to death had it not been for the cold....
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The book Pari Khane-ye Ma (Our House’s pari), the latest work by Behnaz Zarrabizadeh, was unveiled in May 2024 at the Tehran International Book Fair. This work comprises the memories of nine families of martyrs—Bahadorbeigi, Bayat, Teymouri, Changizi, Hajibabaei, Sarabi, Azizi, Moradi, and Momeni—hailing from ...Memoirs of Batool Borhaneshkouri
Wife of Martyr Mohammad Javad TondgooyanShe stirred the food and tasted it. Everything was ready. She turned off the stove. She took out cucumber, lettuce, and tomato from the refrigerator and placed them next to the salad bowl, then got busy making the salad. This afternoon, Somayeh-Hoda and Youssef were coming for lunch, and she had cooked Youssef’s favorite dish.
Destiny Had It So
Memoirs of Seyyed Nouraddin AfiIt was early October 1982, just two or three days before the commencement of the operation. A few of the lads, including Karim and Mahmoud Sattari—the two brothers—as well as my own brother Seyyed Sadegh, came over and said, "Come on, let's head towards the water." It was the first days of autumn, and the air was beginning to cool, but I didn’t decline their invitation and set off with them.
The interviewer is the best compiler
According to Oral History Website, Dr. Morteza Rasoulipour in the framework of four online sessions described the topic “Compilation in Oral History” in the second half of the month of Mordad (August 2024). It has been organized by the Iranian History Association. In continuation, a selection of the teaching will be retold:
