Amplified Initiative
6 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 5 years ago -This is Amplified Initiative, a project of the Organization of American Historians and presented by the Oral History Association. This project from the Organization of American Historians aims to broaden the impact of the OAH’s 2018 conference by asking partner organizations to develop material, based on the conference panels, that will be shared with each partner’s specific audience.
The OHA is glad to join this project and will be developing a series of podcasts based on a number of panels that relate to oral history.
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Episodes
Democratizing the American History Textbook
January 09, 2019 16:55 - 40 minutes - 37.8 MBToday’s episode is the presentation of an exciting project for anyone interested in teaching or learning about history. The OAH panel “Democratizing the American History Textbook: Mass Collaboration and The American Yawp” describes a year-long collaboration of more than 350 historians to produce The American Yawp (www.americanyawp.com/), a free and online, open-source American history Textbook. This is an episode of the Amplified Initiative, a project of the Organization of American Histor...
Storytelling and African-American Women’s Biography
January 02, 2019 00:57 - 54 minutes - 49.7 MBToday we listen to the panel “Storytelling and African American Women's Biography.” Presented at the OAH’s April 2018 conference, the panel compares the possibilities and pitfalls of telling black women’s stories in the traditional form of biography versus the format of film. It also considers the forms that biography takes when the subjects present challenges to linear storytelling. This is an episode of the Amplified Initiative, a project of the Organization of American Historians (oah.o...
Feeling Is Believing
January 02, 2019 00:51 - 1 hour - 62.8 MBWhat do magicians, historians, and performers have in common? Find out in today’s episode of Amplified Initiative where we’ll listen in on the panel “Feeling Is Believing: Embodied Practices of Popular History.” The Amplified Initiative is a project of the Organization of American Historians (oah.org) and presented by the Oral History Association (oralhistory.org). This project from the Organization of American Historians aims to broaden the impact of the OAH’s 2018 conference by asking pa...
Beyond the Monograph, Beyond the Margins
January 01, 2019 22:00 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MBThis is an episode of the Amplified Initiative, a project of the Organization of American Historians (oah.org) and presented by the Oral History Association (oralhistory.org). This project aims to broaden the impact of the OAH’s 2018 conference by asking partner organizations to develop material, based on the conference panels, that will be shared with each partner’s specific audience. In this episode we are listening to the Beyond the Monograph, Beyond the Margins: The Challenge of Interp...
Arming Citizens
January 01, 2019 21:30 - 55 minutes - 51.8 MBThis is an episode of the Amplified Initiative, a project of the Organization of American Historians (oah.org) and presented by the Oral History Association (oralhistory.org). The project aims to broaden the impact of the OAH’s 2018 conference by asking partner organizations to develop material, based on the conference panels, that will be shared with each partner’s specific audience. This is an edited recording of the panel “Arming Citizens: Public Historians and Civic Engagement.” Public...
Sexuality and Oral History
January 01, 2019 21:23 - 1 hour - 71.8 MBThis is an episode of the Amplified Initiative, a project of the Organization of American Historians (oah.org) and presented by the Oral History Association (oralhistory.org). This project aims to broaden the impact of the OAH’s 2018 conference by asking partner organizations to develop material, based on the conference panels, that will be shared with each partner’s specific audience. In this installment we are listening to an edited version of the panel Sexuality and Oral History: The ...