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 […]
Category: Oral History
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 […]
An A-to-Z of Oral History at Columbia | D is for the legendary Carol Doda
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. Interview title: Oral history interview with Carol Doda, 1971 Collection title (and book by the same name): Good Times: […]
Remembering Ronald J. Grele
It is with great sadness, but joy in his legacy and memory, that the Oral History Archives at Columbia (OHAC) and the oral history community observes the passing of Ronald J. Grele, Director Emeritus, Columbia Center for Oral History (CCOH). OHAC staff were privileged to get to know Ron and his thinking behind his oral […]
Guest Post | Oral history and the history of American philanthropy
The legacy collections in our oral history archive reflect the Oral History Research Office’s (OHRO) focus on “great men” in business history and philanthropy in its early years. From the Carnegie Corporation of New York to the Ford Motor Company to McGraw Hill publishers, interviewing the elite while also drawing on narrators throughout the […]