The Fall 2017 Internship Application is now open! SPOHP’s semester-long academic internship is available to graduate and undergraduate students for credit as an introduction to the field of oral history. The Fall 2017 Social Justice Initiatives internship offers a space for students to pursue their own interests in social justice research through training and mentoring in […]
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SPOHP’s Michael Barry was featured in the Gainesville Sun in his Op-ed, on the heels of the Sanders-Cruz debate, about the need for more broadcasted Senate debates to enhance public knowledge about the political discourse occurring through out a presidential term rather than merely during an election season. Read Michael T. Barry Jr.: Nation needs more […]
Filmmaker Michael Honey raves about a successful turn out at a screening of Love and Solidarity at The Grand Cinema in Tacoma, Washington. Friends, In Tacoma last night, the Grand Cinema theater was packed with about 120 people and 20 or more lined up outside and unable to get a seat. “Love and Solidarity” looks […]
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As a response to the June 12 massacre at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, project coordinator Holland Hall believes that the Queer community can be empowered through documenting their own life stories.
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Raja Rahim researched the coaching years of legendary basketball coach John B. McLendon for her graduate thesis at NCCU, featured here in the “Campus Echo.” Raja will co-teach the fall internship as a graduate coordinator at SPOHP.
AAHP coordinators worked to digitize and transcribe a unique and valuable lecture by C.L.R. James–previously unpublished! Congratulations to the entire team for all the hard work that went into this discovery!
Keel, interviewed for the African American History Project and Veterans History Project last summer about his World War II service, is featured in February’s edition of Senior Times magazine.
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Peggy Macdonald, Executive Director of the Matheson History Museum, wrote about SPOHP’s Veterans History Project and Coordinator Ann Smith in the Sun, highlighting the Nov. 11 collaborative Veterans Day public history program.
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For the past 20 years, Jones has been incorporating the practice of oral history in his International Baccalaureate American history classroom at Eastside High School, as highlighted in this feature from WUFT-FM. Photo from WUFT.org, courtesy of Dinah Martin.
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Taylor wrote for the Summer/Fall 2015 Oral History Review, drawing from the Mississippi Freedom Project to discuss the preservation, commemoration, and rebirth of Mississippi’s Civil Rights Sites.
Read more "SPOHP Alumna Jessica Taylor in Oral History Review for Summer/Fall 2015: “We’re on Fire”"