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Amplified Initiative

Jan 9, 2019

Today’s episode is the presentation of an exciting project for anyone interested in teaching or learning about history. 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...


Jan 2, 2019

Today 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...


Jan 2, 2019

What do magicians, historians, and performers have in common? Find out in today’s episode of Amplified Initiative where we’ll listen in on the panel “Feeling Is Believing: Embodied Practices of Popular History.”

The Amplified Initiative is a project of the Organization of American Historians (oah.org) and...


Jan 1, 2019

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 by asking partner organizations to develop material, based on...


Jan 1, 2019

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 by asking partner organizations to develop material, based on...