Save the Date: October Conference on the Iran-Iraq War

The National Defense University’s Conflict Records Research Center and the Wilson Center's Cold War International History Project are pleased to announce an upcoming conference on the international history of the Iran-Iraq war.

When the Towers Fell: An Oral History of 9/11 and Its Aftermath

In the aftermath of 9/11, Mary Marshall Clark began noticing that a deep stillness had fallen over New York City. “It had never been so quiet,” the librarian recalls. “It was unnerving, and I wondered what lay beneath the silences.”

The Oral History of Iranian and Iraqi POWs is being compiled.

Mashhad-The Head of Holy Defense POW Documents Compilation Office said: "The Oral History of Iranian and Iraqi POWs is being compiled." "Following the orders of the Supreme Leader and The Commander In Chief, The Oral History of Iranian and Iraqi POWs is being compiled in the framework of Imam Sajjad (PBUH) project ...

2011 Charlton Oral History Research Award Announced

The Baylor University Institute for Oral History invites individual scholars with training and experience in oral history research who are conducting oral history interviews to apply for support of up to $3,000 for the academic year 2011–2012. With this award,...

Retired BYU professors passion is oral history

OREM, Utah — For Christmas of 1964, Don Norton interviewed his father for two hours and recorded him speaking about the events of his life.

Boston Globe urges release of IRA tapes from oral history project

The Boston Globe has called on Boston College to release tapes form an Irish oral history project that they claim could help solve an old murder case in Northern Ireland.

Duke interns say farewell, unveil oral history project

their lives was effortless because people have so many interesting and wonderful things to say. “I didn’t have to try with the interviewees to get stories out of them because they just had such vivid memories about the place,” he said.

17º Conferencia Internacional De Historia Oral 2012

The Challenges of Oral History in the 21st Century: Diversity, Inequality and Identity Construction. BUENOS AIRES 4-7 September 2012

Ancient settlement may have been discovered on B.C. coast

Oral traditions of the Heiltsuk people tell of the ancient village of Luxvbalis, abandoned after a small pox epidemic in the late 1800s and lost because so few were left to tell the tale. The village may just have been discovered on a site on Calvert Island, in Hakai Luxvbalis Conservancy, located off British Columbia's central coast and its history could date back to as much as 10,000 years.

Yales Walpole Library Invites Public to Contribute to Oral History Project

The Lewis Walpole Library has announced that it will seek to record recollections by contemporaries of the Library’s founders, Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis (1895-1979) and Annie Burr Lewis (1902-1959), to round out the portrait of an extraordinary couple whose legacy is largely known through their remarkable collections of 18th-century English artwork and literature.
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Comparing the Narratives of Commanders and Ordinary Combatants in the Sacred Defense

An Analysis of Functions and Consequences
The experience of the Sacred Defense cannot be comprehended merely through statistics or official reports; what truly endures from war are the narratives of those who stood upon its frontlines. These narratives, however, vary significantly depending on one’s position, responsibilities, and lived experience.

Unveiling of the book "Oral History: What and Why"

The First report: Alireza Kamari
According to the Oral History website, the unveiling ceremony of the book "Oral History: What and Why" by Hamid Qazvini was held on Sunday evening, November 24, 1404, in the presence of experts in the field of oral history in the Salman Farsi Hall of the Arts Center.

Mohammad — The Messiah of Kurdistan

Boroujerdi immediately said to Darvish, “Ready a few men; we’re going.” Then he moved toward Mostafa, who was studying the Kurdistan map. Mostafa straightened his back and said, “During my service in the army I experienced a full-scale war in Kurdistan. Guerrilla warfare in Kurdistan follows its own rules. The anti-revolutionary commanders want to draw us into a battle chosen on their terms.”