"Interview with history" hits Iranian bookshelves

Interview with history", a book holding Oriana Fallacis interviews, has been released in Iran. The book is translated into Persian by Nasir Al-sadat Salami.

UVA Library Streaming Civil Rights Project Online

An oral history project that tells the legal story around the civil rights struggle is now available online. The University of Virginia Library says it is streaming The William Elwood Civil Rights Lawyers Project on its website.

Museum chronicles African-American labor movement

When I started work, we only got paid for A.M. time, no P.M. time,” an elderly, bespectacled gentleman recounts in an oral history of Pullman porters that is among historical treasures within a building on the South Side considered by many a hidden jewel.

Cultivating a Movement: Book traces the evolution of organic farming on Central Coast

In the past four decades organic farming has grown from left field to mainstream. “Cultivating a Movement: An Oral History of Organic Farming & Sustainable Agriculture on California’s Central Coast,” a new book published by UC Santa Cruz Library’s Regional History Project, traces that evolution.

Review Testimonials

Testimony, the Journal Digital Oral History Association of Argentina (NOW) invites nominations for the receipt of items for your third number. Dossier: Oral History and exiles in Latin America.

When Janey Comes Marching Home

New Photography Exhibit, “When Janey Comes Marching Home,” Opens at CDS on February 6 The recent launch of the Veterans Oral History Project in North Carolina brings When Janey Comes Marching Home: Portraits of Women Combat Veterans to CDS. The exhibit includes forty large-scale (one is 50 in. x 60 in., the rest are 30 in. x 40 in.)

A gripping panorama: World War II pilot is military museum s 2,000th Veterans Oral History Project subject

Charles P. Evans got a bird’s eye view of Normandy the day before D-Day while on one of 30 harrowing bombing missions he was assigned to during World War II. The 94-year-old Wilton resident recounted those missions and other incredible stories during a fascinating Veterans Oral History Project session at the New York State Military Museum on Lake Avenue.

Local educators participate in national oral history project

StoryCorps did interviews in 3 Hampton Roads cities HAMPTON — Eight-year-old Harleé Patrick's wide, frightened eyes caught the heart of her teacher as she walked into class at T.C. Walker Elementary School in Gloucester.

Western Illinois Museum shares local war veterans’ stories in new exhibit

The Western Illinois Museum will open a new oral history exhibit this weekend that celebrates local war veterans, to run concurrently with Home Front: Life During the Civil War, which begins today.

UBC profs say Aboriginal oral history misunderstood

Recognized by the Supreme Court of Canada as a legitimate form of evidence in 1997, Aboriginal oral history is too often cast aside as an inferior or even illegitimate form of proof in the Canadian justice system, according to scholars at the University of British Columbia.
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A Portion of Abbas Douzduzani’s Memoirs

From Revolutionary Circles to the Military Arm of the Islamic Government

In those days, it became clear that certain institutions had to be established very quickly—institutions suited to the temperament, expectations, and lingering aspirations of the younger generation; young people who had been politically active before the Revolution and, in some cases, had been directly entangled in arrests, imprisonment, ...

Authenticating Oral History: From Possibility to Necessity

The use of oral history as one of the historical sources has long been one of the principal challenges facing oral historians and those who employ it in contemporary historiography. The development of international standards for oral history, as well as IRIB standards, was intended to address the criticisms raised in this regard. The relationship between Diplomatics in written records and oral history is reciprocal.
Experts Answer to Oral History Questions

100 Questions/27

What is the place of research ethics in compiling oral history?
We asked several researchers and activists in the field of oral history to express their views on oral history questions. The names of each participant are listed at the beginning of their answers, and the text of all answers will be published on this portal by the end of the week.
A Pictorial Chronicle of a Surgeon’s Years of War and Healing;

Photo Album from The Doctor of fly

The Doctor of fly, authored by Fatemeh Dehghan Niri, presents the memoirs of Dr. Mohammad-Taqi Khorsandi Ashtiani, Professor Emeritus and a subspecialist in Otolaryngology at Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Compiled within the framework of oral history, the work recounts different stages of his life—from childhood and years of ...