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Welcome! Oral History in the Liberal Arts curates ‘high impact’ undergraduate research frameworks, proven workflows and technology stacks, and best practices for faculty engaged in community-based learning with oral history and tools from the digital humanities.

Coming to Interview-based Inquiry in the Liberal Arts

Locating Our Practice

Next Steps: From Oral Histories to the Archive

Between Oral History and Ethnography

Latina/o/x Oral Histories: Locating Our New Practice

Collective Work in the Individualized University

17 November 2016

Research, Contingency, and the Undergraduate Classroom

17 November 2016

Undergraduates as Interviewers

Interview Methodology

After the Interview: On Workflow & Choosing a Digital Tool to Visualize, Organiz...

Interviewing 101: A few resources for teaching undergrads how to interview for Public...

Hira Ajmal

10 September 2024

Faiza Tasneem

10 September 2024

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07 February 2024

Yasir Mehmood

27 January 2024

Umar Khawaja

27 January 2024

After the Interview

Digital Workflows

Story Maps ArcGIS— Map-centered digital storytelling with multiple templates

Soundcite—Animate Written Narrative with Spoken Word and Soundscapes

StoryMap— For Place-Based Stories that Track Events Through Time

TimelineJS— Chronological Digital Stories Merging Images, Maps, Video, and Wikipedi...

After the Interview: On Workflow & Choosing a Digital Tool to Visualize, Organiz...

Oral History Metadata Synchronizer

Using OHMS

How to Add Footnotes in OHMS

23 October 2017

OHMS Metadata Entry Guide

Hyperlinks in OHMS: Linking Media to an Interview Index

08 November 2016

Incorporating LoC Subject Headings into an OHMS Project

03 November 2016

OHMS allows for a controlled thesaurus, but learning to use it efficiently it another story. Here's my tips.

1- Introduction to OHMS: Why use this tool?

07 October 2016

Bilingual OHMS

OHMS in Bilingual Projects

Formatting and Uploading transcripts to OHMS (in English or Japanese)

Creating Bi-Lingual Projects in the Oral History Metadata Synchronizer

OHMS Tutorials from Start to Finish

Working with OHMS

OHMS allows for a controlled thesaurus, but learning to use it efficiently it another story. Here's my tips.

1- Introduction to OHMS: Why use this tool?

07 October 2016

OHMS allows for a controlled thesaurus, but learning to use it efficiently it another story. Here's my tips.

2- Metadata in OHMS: Starting an interview in the repository

07 October 2016

OHMS allows for a controlled thesaurus, but learning to use it efficiently it another story. Here's my tips.

3- Transcript Formatting in OHMS: Prepping before upload (optional)

07 October 2016

OHMS allows for a controlled thesaurus, but learning to use it efficiently it another story. Here's my tips.

4- Syncing in OHMS: time sync your media to your transcript (optional)

07 October 2016

OHMS allows for a controlled thesaurus, but learning to use it efficiently it another story. Here's my tips.

5- Indexing in OHMS: Where the scholarly magic happens

07 October 2016

Oral History Projects

Faculty Projects

War Memories: Intergenerational, Intercultural Oral History Project

Engaging the Wisdom Oral History Project

16 September 2016

Re-imagining Linguistic Diversity of Local Languages of Pakistan

Fetching the Quilt Home

Sierra Leone Amputees Project

Student Projects

Interviews With Color

The Turkish Community in Dayton, Ohio

Culture Change in Wazuka, Japan

Unravelling Traditions of Mayan Textiles in Chiapas, Mexico

16 December 2016

Coloring the Gem City: The Legacy of Housing Policy in Dayton, Ohio