"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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Benefits of Oral History
History, as one of the fundamental disciplines within the humanities, has evolved through time to adopt various forms and methodologies. Concepts such as "written history," "comprehensive history," and "oral history" exemplify these approaches. Written history relies on documents and textual sources for the analysis and composition of historical accounts, while comprehensive history seeks to integrate various sources—both written and oral.The Hidden Camp
The Hidden Camp narrates the autobiographical memoirs of Mohammad Hassan Mirzaei, recounting his experiences from managing Iraqi POW camps to enduring captivity in Iranian POW camps. This work, rewritten and compiled by Meysam Gholampour, was published in the summer of 2024 by Mirath-e Ahl-e Qalam Publications in collaboration with the Damavand Martyrs Foundation.That Side of the Wall
Seizure of US embassy as narrated by Habibollah BitarafHabibollah Bitaraf was one of three first ideologues of the seizure of the US embay and a member of the coordination council of the den of the espionage. He who was studying Civil Engineering in Technical Faculty of Tehran University at that time has first-hand memoirs about the event.
Oral history education should not rely on individuals
Today, training is considered by the oral history experts as a key issue. According to Dr. “Ali Tattari”, oral history education needs to be processed in universities so that, by approving regulations and guidelines, the education of this science does not rely on individuals and does not suffer from a crisis with the slightest change in the country's political and economic climate.
