Category Archives: Newsletter

• Conducting Oral Interviews Remotely: Using Your Smartphone for Oral Interviews
• Detroit 48202: Conversations Along a Postal Route
• Memoriamedia Review
• Voices from the fight: An oral history of the four-year movement to defeat Donald Trump
• Book Review: “A2 Insight; the Interviews”
• The Oral Interview Adds to the Stories of Food and Restaurants in the U.P.
• Passing of John D. Shaw

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• Book Review Series: “Untold Tales, Unsung Heroes: An Oral History of Detroit’s African American Community 1918-1967”
• LGBTQ Oral Histories at Wayne State University Leave an Impact on Students
• Incorporating Self-Care Into Oral History Methodology
• The Twists and Turns of University Presidential Interviews
• The Protection of Human Subjects in Research and Institutional Review
• Board Oversight: OHA July 2020 Update
• New Oral History Podcast from the National Park Service

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• Tips for Teaching Oral History in the Age of COVID
• Remote Oral History Interviewing
• Michigan History Day Award for Best Use of Oral History, HSM
• COVID-19: Save Your Story
• WSU Archival Administration Oral History Project
• How a Pandemic Crisis Changes Oral History
• Interviewing University Presidents
• OHA Conference Moves Online

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• Remote Oral History Interviewing
• Library of Michigan: COVID-19: Save Your Story
• Oral History at a Distance: Conducting Remote Interviews
• Vermont Folklife Center guide for remote interviewing
• Oral History Society guide for remote interviewing
• We Heard the Bells: The Influenza of 1918
• Detroit Quarantine 2020

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• MOHA 2020 Conference slate of presentations (Note: Conference Postponed due to COVID-19)
• “A Guide for Doing Successful Oral Histories” (MOHA)
• Preserving Digital Cultural Heritage
• Hiltunen presents at the Finnish Oral History Network’s Annual Oral History Symposium
• Invading Russia; A Michigan Polar Bear Confronts the Bolsheviks in 1918
• Upper Peninsula Oral History Collection
• The Story Behind the Bixby Marionettes
• Transcribing Oral History Guide

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• Wiskemann Receives Lifetime Achievement Award, HSM
• MOHA 2020 Conference Call for Proposals (Note: Conference Postponed due to COVID-19)
• 2019 Michigan Genealogical Council Fall Family History Event
• EMU Archives Oral History Program
• Learning Your Equipment is nowhere near as difficult as learning to listen
• Saving the Agricultural Heritage of the Upper Peninsula
• Michigan History Day MOHA’s Award for Best Use of Oral History

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• Ndbaajmowinaanin: “Our Stories” (Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians
• PAVE the Way Project Preserves Neighborhood History in Lansing
• Future Historians Oral History Day at Michigan History Center
• An Oral History of Women Jazz Musicians
• The Archives of American Art’s Oral History Style Guide
• Romanies in Michigan
• Missing Information: Going Beyond Your Oral History Interview
• MSU’s Faculty Grievance Procedure: A Half-Century of a Non-union System for Resolving Faculty Grievances History

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• Critical Lifelines: Portraits and Stories of Home Care Workers
• The Schizophrenia Oral History Project
• Michigan Political History Society’s James J. Blanchard Living Library of Michigan Political History
• Studs Terkel, Radio Talk Show Host and Oral Historian
• Using Oral History in Museums and Libraries

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The following content is included in this Winter 2019 issue:

• Archiving Unheard Voices: Community-Based and Participatory Oral History Projects
• Storytelling: An Oral Tradition Tells the Stories – Past and Present – Of Individuals
• Refuge Lansing
• The Sweetness of Freedom Stories of Immigrants review
• Voices of Homelessness
• National Award for Detroit 67: Looking Back to Move Forward
• “Michigan in Perspective” The Local History Conference

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The following issue is from Fall 2018, it has the following content:

• The Michigan PBB Oral History Project
• Take-Aways from OHA 2018 in Montreal
• MSU Archives unveils it’s new website – Voices of MSU
• MSU Libraries Provides New Ways to Access Digitized Oral Histories Online
• Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives Brown bad Presentation Recordings
• Kalamazoo Wings Oral History Project

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The following issue is from Summer 2018, it has the following content:

• National Filby Award Presented to Library of Michigan’s Tim Gleisner
• Lindsay Hiltunen receives Historical Society of Michigan Award
• Voices of History Come alive for High School Students: Japanese Americans describe Their Lives in Imprisonment
• Voices of History Come alive for High School Students: Latino Veterans’ Voices Project
• Memories of Five Nisei: The Untold Stories of 5 Former US Prisoners
• Union Time: Fighting for Worker Rights
• 2018 OHA Annual Meeting Announcement
• Board Officers and Board Members were featured in the Spring 2018 Issue
• Michigan Museum Association Conference: Themes of Leadership Announcement

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The following issue is from Spring 2018, it has the following content:

• Learning from American Indian Oral Traditions
• Beginning Genealogy: Easy as 1,2,3 by Brenda Leyndyke
• Writing Project Pairs Students with Elderly
• 7 Tips for Oral History Interviews
• Black Voices in Copper Country

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The following issue is from Winter 2018, it has the following content:

• “Rosie the Riveter” Wins Award
• 2018 OHA Annual Meeting
• Annual Midwestern History Conference Announcement
• Veterans History Project
• Exciting Individual Stories: “Charlie” Kettles
• Memories from the Edge of the Abyss: Evaluating the Oral Accounts of World War II Veterans
• All Hands on Deck: Preserving Home Front History of World War II
• Resolution: Patricia Pilling

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The following issue is from Fall 2017, it has the following content:

• Michigan Voices 2017: Forum Announcement and Call for Presentations
• Growing Community in Oceana County
• African American Oral History Archive in Ypsilanti
• Imagine Flint: Our Voices Together
• Preparation for Oral Histories: Paperwork – Tips and Guidance from MOHA’s “A Guide for Doing Successful Oral Histories”
• EduPath: Civil Rights Through Oral History
• 2017 OHA Annual Meeting

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The following issue is from Spring 2017, it has the following content:

• Detroit 67 Oral and Written History Project
• The Veterans History Project: World War I Centennial
• Oral History in the Liberal arts: Participatory Pedagogy for Community-Based and Archives-Informed Learning in the Liberal Arts Using Oral History and Digital Storytelling
• The Sierra Leone Amputees Oral History Project
• Larger Than Life: An Oral History of WrestleMania III
• Preparation for Oral Histories: Partnerships – Tips and Guidance from MOHA’s “A Guide for Doing Successful Oral Histories”
• Women’s March on Washington – Michigan Interviews

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The following issue is from Winter 2017, it has the following content:

• Women’s March
• Gi-gikinomaage-min (We are all teachers): Preserving the memories of Urban Native American West Michigan
• Recommendations and Resources for Recording Oral History
• War Memories: Intergenerational and Intercultural Oral History Project
• Hard-Of-Hearing Heroes Project
• Michigan History Day Announcement
• “Michigan in Perspective”, the 2017 Local History Conference of Historical Society of Michigan
• A message from the national Oral History Association

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The following issue is from Fall 2016, it has the following content:

• Information regarding the Midwest Regional Oral History Forum by MOHA in collaboration with the 2016 Summit on Racism
• Engaging the Wisdom Oral History Project
• WC’s, WASP’s, SPARs, and the Marines: Nicknames, Recruiting, and the Wartime Experience of Servicewomen from Grand Rapids
• Cultural Understanding Through Heritage Grant
• The “Genius” of Oral History by Sherry Tuffin
• Who is a Farmer?
• What Oral History is NOT
• One of Michigan Communities’ Cultural Projects: “Many Stories One Heritage”

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The following issue is from Summer 2016, it has the following content:

• The 2016 Michigan History Day Awards for Best Use of Oral History
• The “Detroit 1967: Looking back to MOVE FORWARD” Collection on the 50th commemoration of the civil unrest
• Guidelines For Transcribing Oral Histories by Lynn Simmons
• Giving Voice to Diverse communities through history: Asian Pacific American Community
• Announcement of the 2016 OHA Annual Meeting in Long Beach, California
• Using Oral History in the Classroom by Jim Cameron
• Announcement of the 2016 Midwest Regional Oral History Forum by MOHA

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The following issue is from Winter 2016, it has the following content:

• Thoughts on Transcribing Oral Histories by Lynn Simmons
  • Next Issue in Series on Transcribing:
    • Working With a Transcriber, Verbatim or Edited Transcript, the Transcribing Process, and Becoming a Transcriber
• Followup to the MOHA November 2015 Forum

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The following issue is from Fall 2015, it has the following content:

• Discussions of te 2015 Strategic Plan for Michigan Oral History Association
• Information regarding 2015 MOHA Forum: What’s Happening in Oral History in the State of Michigan
• An afternoon with Reuther Library Founding Director, Dr. Philip P. Mason
• Preservation Through Digitization
  • MotorCities supports Presentation at Vincent Voice Library
  • New Guide to Audio Preservation Gives Non-Specialists Expert Information
  • “Uprising of ’34” Interviews to be digitized
  • Michigan Oral History Association Strategic Plan – Committees, Responsibilities, and Chair
    • Organizational Structure
    • Communications Committee
    • Program Committee
    • Membership and Outreach Committee
    • Nominations and Elections Committee
    • Finance Committee
    • Education Committee
    • Strategic Relationships
  • New Initiatives from StoryCorps
  • Oral History vs Oral Interviews

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