Popular culture serves as an easy way to capitalize on students’ everyday experience. Music can teach about the past in at least seven overlapping ways.
Posts Tagged ‘Oral History’
New Paper: Matthew Hayday on “The History of the Recent”
Professor Matthew Hayday of the University of Guelph has written an evocative piece on some of the joys and potential pitfalls of engaging living activists in historical research. His piece, “The History of the Recent: Reflections on Social Movement History, Research Methods and the Rapid Passage of Time,” is a useful read for anybody interested in the connections between oral history, professional historians, social movements, and activists.
Strengthening Community through Digitized Local History
The Black Creek Living History project is a great example of how community history can be told over the internet.
This is Not About Cinnamon Toast
A discussion of the importance and possibilities of storytelling, oral history and personal memories.
Storytelling Matters: Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia University
This is a blog post looking at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia University, introducing readers to the resources available there.
