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An A-to-Z of Oral History at Columbia | A is for…the Addicts Who Survived Collection by David Courtwright

Posted on 2023-09-08 by Kimberly Springer

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. Collection title: Addicts Who Survived oral history collection, 1978-1984 Interview contents: Narrators typically discuss their family history, their introduction […]

Events | Oral History Master’s Program’s focus on methodology

Posted on 2023-09-06 by Kimberly Springer

Our oral history teaching colleagues in Columbia’s master’s program will be hosting their lively and boundary-pushing workshop series again this Fall. This year’s theme is “Experiments in Oral History Methodology.” 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 […]

Exhibition | Lost In Transcription

Posted on 2023-03-28 by Kimberly Springer

Oral history transcription practice has undergone several changes since implemented at the inception of the field’s standardization and formalization starting in the late 1960s. The oral history transcripts selected for the “Lost in Transcription” case in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library’s exhibition, Original Copies: Facsimiles & Mediations of Authenticity & Ownership, reflect different […]

Original Copies: Facsimiles and their Mediations of Authenticity and Ownership

Posted on 2023-03-27 by Emily Runde

We are delighted to announce the opening of a new exhibition in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library‘s Kempner Gallery: Original Copies: Facsimiles and their Mediations of Authenticity and Ownership. The desire to capture likenesses, to reproduce things of value as closely as possible, stretches deep back into human history. We have been creating visually […]

Mass incarceration from one family’s perspective, a Curatorial Short with Kurt Boone

Posted on 2023-02-06 by Kimberly Springer

In the RBML’s continuing Curatorial Shorts programming, we feature a collection of oral histories on mass incarceration collected by Kurt Boone for the Oral History Archives at Columbia. The collection holds eight interviews by Boone. Boon is a collector and documentarian of urban culture – including hip hop, graffiti art, and street style. You can […]