Welcome! Oral History in the Liberal Arts is a faculty development initiative working with ‘high impact’ undergraduate research frameworks, testing technology stacks, and proving workflows that employ oral history and tools from the digital humanities.

for the greater oral history/digital pedagogy community

News & Events

New CFP and Microgrant Announcement! Fully Funded Alliance Oral History in the Liberal Arts Summer Institute July 2023 at Antioch College

Regular Q&A with Brooke Blackmon Bryan and Digital Archive Coordinator Levi Brown Starting May 7th!

Emergent faculty work with a curricular tie

Faculty Projects

War Memories: Intergenerational, Intercultural Oral History Project

Noriko Sugimori

Engaging the Wisdom Oral History Project

Re-imagining Linguistic Diversity of Local Languages of Pakistan

mentored undergraduate research

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

~~~ Essays, Resources & Tutorials.~

Coming to Interview-based Inquiry in the Liberal Arts

Locating Our Practice

Field Librarianship: The Role of Information Science in Oral History

20 January 2016

What Can You Do With an English Degree?

21 February 2016

Case Study: Coloring the Gem City

A Path to Bilingual OHMS

Collective Work in the Individualized University

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...

Umar Khawaja

27 January 2024

4 Steps to Practice Interviewing Before Your First Interview.

17 September 2018

Registration is open for the 2018 Oral History in the Liberal Arts Institute!

Remembering Vietnam: History and Memories of War in Small Town USA

Module: Writing Good Fieldnotes

15 December 2016

After the Interview

Digital Workflows

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

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

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

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

Soundcite—Animate Written Narrative with Spoken Word and Soundscapes

Oral History Metadata Synchronizer

Using OHMS

Hyperlinks in OHMS: Linking Media to an Interview Index

08 November 2016

Streaming Video and Audio in OHMS with a Focus on YouTube

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

CTRL+F: On working with LoC Subject Headings in the Oral History Metadata Synchronize...

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.

5- Indexing in OHMS: Where the scholarly magic happens

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

Learn 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