In the rush to document history, students, faculty, and staff clamored for there to be oral histories capturing this moment in Columbia’s history. How will student protest and University reactions be archived, preserved, memorialized, and used/misused for varied agendas and purposes? In consulting with oral history collection donors, interviewing narrators, designing oral history projects […]
Category: Oral History
An A-to-Z of Oral History at Columbia: “F” is for “fair use”
An A-to-Z of Oral History at Columbia is a monthly posting featuring the people, events, and organizations in the Oral History Archive at Columbia’s collections, as well as behind-the-scenes info about oral history methodology. In this second post related to ethics (see the first post here, which in […]
Oral History | New collection launches with hundreds of interviews with African American elders
Now available online: The Baldwin-Emerson Elders’ Project! Established by award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson, the Baldwin-Emerson Elders Project captures and celebrates the untold stories of activists, storytellers, and community builders who have witnessed and shaped monumental change in American public life… In their interviews, elders reflect on their own life histories as well as major […]
An A-to-Z of Oral History at Columbia: “E” is for Ethics
An A-to-Z of Oral History at Columbia is a monthly posting featuring the people, events, and organizations in the Oral History Archive at Columbia’s collections, as well as behind-the-scenes info about oral history methodology. The next two entries in the OHAC A-to-Z focus on what happens behind-the-scenes in oral history methodology and archival […]
Oral History | OHMA’s spring 2024 workshop series announced
Our colleagues in the Oral History Master’s Program (OHMA) have an exciting line-up of talks and workshops for spring semester. Oral history as a research tool has been at times almost synonymous with a certain kind of interviewing: one-on-one, biographical, long-form, recorded, and intended for the archive. In this year-long series of events, are exploring […]