Why would an archivist change the name of a collection? That’s the central question behind a new RBML exhibit. Dynamic Archives features examples of archival collections and materials whose naming, identifying and meaning have had to keep up with historical, social and political perspectives, as well as translation practices and epistemologies. […]
Tag: Oral History
10/1 @ 6PM: Doing Recent History: History that Talks (and Tweets!) Back
Thursday, October 1, 2015 at 6:00 PM Columbia University’s Butler Library, Room 523 535 West 114th Street, NYC (Directions) Why is writing living history challenging? What are the ethics of doing research on social media? How can archivists balance the ethics of open access and ethics of privacy? Do historians watch enough TV?! Join Tenured […]
News from the Oral History Archives
In the 1930s, journalist, biographer, and Columbia professor of history, Allan Nevins began to worry that future historians would find a dearth of evidence documenting the personal side of historic events because ephemeral telephone conversations were replacing letter writing. Nevins began experimenting with what he called oral autobiography: interviews with “living Americans who have led […]