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oral history

The Author’s Corner with Rose Miron

Rachel Petroziello   |  March 24, 2025

Rose Miron is Vice President of Research and Education at the Newberry Library. This interview is based on her new book, Indigenous Archival Activism: Mohican Interventions in Public History and Memory (University of Minnesota Press, 2024). JF: What led you to […]

The Author’s Corner with Rachel Louise Moran

Rachel Petroziello   |  October 10, 2024

Rachel Louise Moran is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Texas. This interview is based on her new book, Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America (University of Chicago Press, 2024). JF: What led you to […]

The Author’s Corner with Katie Singer

Rachel Petroziello   |  September 30, 2024

Katie Singer is a public scholar, writer, and activist. This interview is based on her new book, Alien Soil: Oral Histories of Great Migration Newark (Rutgers University Press, 2024). JF: What led you to write Alien Soil? KS: I wrote Alien […]

The Author’s Corner with Daniel J. Clark

Rachel Petroziello   |  September 12, 2024

Daniel J. Clark is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Public Humanities at Oakland University. This interview is based on his new book, Listening to Workers: Oral Histories of Metro Detroit Autoworkers in the 1950s (University of […]

Pittsburgh and the Great Migration

John Fea   |  May 14, 2024

Over at Black Perspectives, historian Adam Lee Cilli introduces us to “Migrant Voices,” a website collecting oral history interviews of African Americans who migrated from the rural South to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania between 1915 and 1930. It is an amazing resource. […]