...Yolanda Hester; Teresa Barnett “‘Where Do We Go from Here?’: Histories of Long-term Black Business Ownership, Community, and Family in Los Angeles County” is an oral history project of African American business owners conducted by the UCLA Center for Oral History Research. This report describes...

... an interdisciplinary oral history project, Stories of Holocaust Survival: An Economic Perspective , this Report from the Field sheds light on the benefits of bending methodological norms in public historical work with communities that have experienced trauma. It also describes ways in which Holocaust oral history can...

...Joseph Plaster In this essay I reflect on my experience as director of Polk Street: Lives in Transition, a project that drew on oral histories to intervene in debates about gentrification, homelessness, sex work, queer politics, and public safety in the highly polarized setting of gentrifying San...

...Benjamin Houston This article discusses an international exhibition that detailed the recent history of African Americans in Pittsburgh. Methodologically, the exhibition paired oral history excerpts with selected historic photographs to evoke a sense of Black life during the twentieth century...

...Alfred P. Clark Traditional histories of higher education institutions tend to be academic histories or photo essays. This article describes another approach, “institutional biography” narrated with extensive oral history interviews of faculty, staff, trustees, alumni, and emeriti. Using University...

... Sobey, a founding member of gay liberation organizations in Belfast during the 1970s, and featured excerpts from oral histories with gay and lesbian activists. It portrayed the emergence of the gay liberation movement during the Troubles and how the unique social, political, and religious situation...

... on Public History 2019 LGBTQ rural/urban social movements conservatism oral history partnerships Investigating Kentucky s LBGTQ Heritage Subaltern Stories from the Bluegrass State Catherine Fosl and Daniel Vivian ABSTRACT: The Kentucky LGBTQ Heritage Context Study illustrates the promise...

...Ariel Beaujot Hear, Here , a place-based oral history project in downtown La Crosse, Wisconsin, launched in the spring of 2015 during a rash of shootings of black men by police across America. This article explores the local context of race panic in a former sundown town—or a city that has...

... and German descendants of its veterans. 1 The project process had many similarities to the practice of oral history, but there were also significant differences. This article considers the shared territory of the two methodologies while at the same time acknowledging the uniqueness of Age Exchange’s approach...

... in similar situations may be faced with should the unimaginable happen. KEY WORDS: mass violence, condolence collections, Pulse Nightclub, massacre, LGBTQ, oral history, morale, emergency planning, disaster planning It Happened to Us Pam Schwartz, Chief Curator Our staff awoke the morning of June 12, 2016...

... this process. Drawing upon decades of personal experiences and professional activities with community and oral history–based projects, he expresses how public historians can recognize multiple perspectives and then work in tandem with various constituencies to navigate an array of interpretive and preservation...

...Erin L. Conlin Student community-based projects are a natural tool for achieving diverse public history outcomes, yet these types of projects are challenging to organize and manage. Focusing on two undergraduate community-centered oral history projects, this article serves as a guide for those...

... memory through oral history for the Bracero History Archive and the reception of the National Museum of American History’s exhibit, Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program, 1942–1964 . The present day political and social context in which these oral histories were collected left indelible marks on how...

... for eliciting sound memories such as the use of sonic prompts, emplaced interviewing, and sound walks. I include examples from my research on medical listening. The article considers the relevance of this work for the conduct of oral histories, arguing that such methods “break the frame,” allowing room...

...William S. Walker This article explores the shared intellectual tradition in folklore, public history, and oral history of involving students in community-based field research. This case study of the collaborative research New York State folklorist Harold W. Thompson and his students undertook...

... by The Regents of the University of California and the National Council on Public History 2015 post-emancipation self-determination activism preservation oral history Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-first Century at a Post-Emancipation Site Jennifer Scott Abstract:How can a historic house museum...

..., critics have also observed that the results have tended to be confined to symbolic or rhetorical effects. Utilizing the insights of engaged anthropology, we examine the potential of a community-engaged, collaborative research design that integrates oral history, archaeology, and archival research...

...Elizabeth M. Nix When nontraditional undergraduates collected oral histories about the disturbances that followed Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in April 1968, their deep Baltimore roots became an invaluable asset to the Baltimore '68: Riots and Rebirth project. The racial diversity...

... oral history dramaturgy Baltimore 68: Riots and Rebirth The History Tellers Kimberley Lynne Abstract: Kimberley Lynne wrote and directed a play entitled One Particular Saturday, a compilation of witness accounts of the Baltimore 68 riots. Her article describes the process of creating...

...Linda Shopes This commentary on the preceding six articles identifies those elements that contributed to Baltimore '68: Riot and Rebirth 's success as a public history program, even as it raises questions about the program's long-term impact. It pays particular attention to the way the oral history...