Democratizing the American History Textbook
Amplified Initiative
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, a free and online, open-source American history Textbook.
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Storytelling and African-American Women’s Biography
Amplified Initiative
This panel compares the possibilities & pitfalls of telling black women’s stories in the traditional form of biography versus film as well as when the subjects present challenges to linear storytelling.
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Feeling Is Believing
Amplified Initiative
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.
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Beyond the Monograph, Beyond the Margins
Amplified Initiative
This 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.
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Arming Citizens
Amplified Initiative
This 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.
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Sexuality and Oral History
Amplified Initiative
This 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 panel, like the others in our series, was part of the Organization of American Historians April 2018 conference.
info_outlineToday 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.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 partner organizations to develop material, based on the conference panels, that will be shared with each partner’s specific audience.
Chair: Lynn Hudson, University of Illinois at Chicago
Panelists: Cynthia Blair, University of Illinois at Chicago
You can listen to the full version of this panel, as well as other presentations that didn’t make into the podcast, at oah.pathwright.com.