Author: TSVP

History often takes for granted the photographers, videographers, and audiographers who capture, preserve, and share history as it happens. Oftentimes, none of what we record is pretty or neatly conceived. But it is the job of the media historian to get the shot or sound clip. It’s then up to the rest of us to …

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TSVP strongly encourages local historical societies and museums to engage history in real time by using digital media to document, preserve, interpret, and share what is happening in our communities–right now. Carpe diem! In our opinion, too many local history organizations are rear facing and fixated on a static past. We think these organizations can …

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The Social Voice Project is mentioned in the chapter, “Oral History for the Twenty-First Century,” alongside StoryCorps (Library of Congress, National Public Radio) and the internationally acclaimed Memoro Project as a significant public history program that captures, preserves, and shares the voices and stories of our local communities. In reaction, we respond: “TSVP began as …

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Listen to the stories and voices of our time. What people know and care about history is in our hands. This is why our work matters as public historians. For many years it’s been my stock explanation that we oral historians “capture, preserve, and share” the stories and voices of our time. We do this, …

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