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Oral History Works

Projects of the Columbia Oral History M.A. Program

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What I Saw In My Early Years

March 14, 2021January 14, 2022 ohma

What I Saw In My Early Years By Nina Zhou, 2021 This interview is set against the backdrop of the Chinese Exclusion Era in Toronto, Canada. Many Chinese families were […]

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Why Were They Interested In Our Ages?

March 12, 2021January 14, 2022 ohma

Why Were They Interested In Our Ages? By Aluel Bol Kuanyin, 2021 In this audio piece, Aluel’s father, Bol Kuanyin Agoth, is sharing memories of home, his relationship with his […]

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Footsteps Through Childhood

March 12, 2021January 14, 2022 ohma

Footsteps Through Childhood By Susan Garrity, 2021 During a two-and-a-half-hour walking interview of a 300-acre site under development as an urban park, the narrator, Demetrius Hunter, muses about his many […]

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Teachers All Around Us: Intergenerational Conversations & Student Oral Histories

March 12, 2021January 14, 2022 ohma

Teachers All Around Us: Intergenerational Conversations & Student Oral Histories By Max Peterson, 2021 Cosby Hunt, a high school social studies teacher in Washington, DC, reflects on his initial experiences […]

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Losing My Religion

March 12, 2021January 14, 2022 ohma

Losing My Religion By Elizabeth Jefimova, 2021 Kris Goldsmith is a veteran on the Iraq war. During the course of our three meetings, Kris talked about his time in Iraq […]

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There’s No Place Like Home

March 12, 2021January 14, 2022 ohma

There’s No Place Like Home By Casey Dooley, 2021 Inspired by an interest in architecture and memory, this edited interview excerpt revolves around a house in Rahway, a New Jersey […]

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Ain’t Got Long to Stay Here

May 25, 2020January 14, 2022 ohma

Ain’t Got Long to Stay Here By Courtney Scott, 2020 OHMA student Courtney Scott reflects with her father, Barry Scott, on 30 years of portraying Dr Martin Luther King Jr. […]

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The Crossing (2020)

March 5, 2020January 14, 2022 ohma

THE CROSSING By Lily Doron, 2020 Refugees traveling to Europe from Turkey typically depart from Izmir and arrive on the island of Lesvos across the Aegean Sea. For many, this […]

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Se c’era quella persona che ti incuriosiva: an 80s lesbian bar in Southern Italy (2020)

March 5, 2020January 14, 2022 ohma

Se c’era quella persona che ti incuriosiva: an 80s lesbian bar in Southern Italy By Eleonora Anedda, 2020 In this piece, OHMA student Eleonora Anedda (2019-2020 cohort) brings us back […]

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Existential Cathexis: Patriotism (2015)

July 22, 2016August 2, 2016 ohma

Existential Cathexis: Patriotism By Geraldo Jay Scala, 2015 Listen to this edited audio piece through OHMA’s SoundCloud channel The following audio piece features Ed Shevlin, a robust, straight talking, tattooed […]

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