This summer I tackled two very contentious topics in Cold War history: the El Salvador Civil War and the Vietnam… Read more Summer 2018, Oral Histories in Retrospective

This summer I tackled two very contentious topics in Cold War history: the El Salvador Civil War and the Vietnam… Read more Summer 2018, Oral Histories in Retrospective
In part one of this blog post, I outlined historian Dr. Erik Ching’s book, Stories of Civil War in El… Read more The Importance of Oral Histories to the Master Narrative, Part II
During my initial research this summer on the intricacies of El Salvador’s Civil War, I stumbled upon historian Dr. Erik Ching’s book, Stories… Read more The Importance of Oral Histories to the Master Narrative, Part I
Each summer Social Studies @ CSU features an “In the Classroom” series highlighting different strategies to connect Social Studies content… Read more Oral History Meets Pedagogy In the Classroom
When Professor Shelley Rose broached the idea of developing an Undergraduate Summer Research Award (USRA) proposal around the practice of… Read more History Speaks: Empowering Teachers to Incorporate Oral History
Over the course of this summer, Chris Morris and I have had the opportunity and privilege to explore oral history… Read more History Speaks: Reflections from Victoria McDonough
For the next portion of the summer blog series, Chris Morris and I will be providing sample lesson plans and… Read more Voices from the Past: Exploring World War II through Oral History
Oral histories bring the past to life in ways ordinary textbooks cannot. Through the power of hearing an individual’s voice… Read more Scholarship on Oral History Pedagogy