"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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How can narrators and interviewers reach a common understanding?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.
Documentary Pathology of the US Embassy Documents
The Necessity of Scientific Rereading and Content Analysis of DocumentsMore than four decades have passed since the publication of the first collections of documents from the US Embassy in Tehran. However, despite the relatively easy access to this treasure trove of documents, systematic research exploitation of it has not been adequate. We still do not have a “comprehensive picture” of the content of these 11,000 documents.
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What is the importance of the narrator and interviewers shared understanding of the past in 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 the answers will be published on this portal by the end of the week.
Validation: Challenges and Necessities
Where does truth stand in oral history? How can the correctness of a narrative be recognized? Does fact-checking matter? If there is exaggeration in the reporting of some accounts, how can it be detected? Is it possible to record an event accurately through the recording of a narrative? Readers and users of oral history works are often faced with these questions, and sometimes encounter doubts about some oral history works.
