The OHAC Showcase offers digital exhibitions and space for collaboration and experimentation in oral history. Stop by for behind-the-scenes insights into the practice and methodology of oral history collecting, archiving, and exhibiting. Now showing: an online posting of the Dynamic Archives exhibition from October 2018. […]
Tag: Oral History
RBML – 2020 in Review
2020 was a year like no other. It started normally enough, but on March 16, 2020, Columbia University closed its physical facilities as part of the New York State-mandated PAUSE that sought to control the spread of COVID. For months, staff were permitted onsite only for essential security and maintenance checks. As restrictions loosened over […]
Oral History | Closing out WHO’s 2020 Year of the Nurse and the Midwife
Of 2020’s many unanticipated events, that the World Health Organization’s declared this year as the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife is striking for it’s poignancy and importance. Nurses and healthcare workers are more than “essential.” The Oral History Archives at Columbia (OHAC) has a number of interviews related to nursing and midwifery: […]
Oral History | Eisenhower Administration interviews available online
With over 35,000 pages of transcripts the Eisenhower Administration oral history project is one of the Oral History Archives at Columbia’s most researched oral history collections. Transcripts and, when available, audio are now accessible in the Columbia University Libraries’ Digital Library Collection. […]
Radio Liberty oral history project newly available to the public
A popular oral history project, the Radio Liberty project, 1964 – 1966, was recently opened for public listening.* From the catalog record: In anticipation of the 50th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, Radio Liberty and the Institute for the Study of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics in Munich collected memoirs of participants in […]