Blytheville Cold War Forum — “Documenting Cold War Narratives: Voices from a Divided Era”

Описание: Dr. Christian Ostermann and Dr. Jillian Hartley, co-chairs of the National Cold War Center National Advisory Board, lead a panel of experts in a stimulating, informative conversation about the significance of oral histories from the Cold War era. #NCWC, #NationalColdWarCenter, #oralhistory , #ColdWar, #veteranshistory, #coldwarhistory

Guest Panelists:
Peter Alter: Studs Terkel Oral History Institute, Chicago History Museum
Owen Rogers, Library of Congress, Veterans History Project
Eleanor O'Rangers, Southeastern Pennsylvania Cold War History Society

The Blytheville Cold War Forum from the National Cold War Center provides a nonpartisan public platform for the discussion of Cold War history, memory and heritage.

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Timestamp
00:30 Welcome from Dr. Christian Ostermann
01:30 Mission of the National Cold War Center
03:00 The importance of documenting oral narratives/defining Cold War veterans
05:00 Peter Alter: Studs Terkel Oral History Center, Chicago History Museum https://www.chicagohistory.org/studs-...
06:00 Digital archives, The Good War book (https://books.google.com/books?id=tg4...)
07:00 Chicago Cold War Oral History Project
10:00 Examples of oral histories
13:00 Vietnam War Veterans Monument in front of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church (https://www.pbs.org/video/chicago-sto...)
13:30 Forty Blocks: The East Garfield Park Oral History Project (https://ncph.org/history-at-work/proj...)
14:00 Polish Chicago Oral History Project
15:30 Eleanor O'Rangers: Southeastern Pennsylvania Cold War Historical Society https://coldwarhistory.org/
19:00 Johnsville Centrifuge (Fuge) https://www.ion.org/museum/files/hist...
19:30 Best practices for oral history interviews
21:00 Access to interviews on YouTube -    / @sepacoldwarhistsoc  
21:30 Interviewees from Naval Air Development Center, Nike Missile Base
23:00 Highlights from engineers
25:00 Alice Stoll, inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame https://swe.org/magazine/alice-stoll/...
27:00 Fuge outreach events, display room, tours
31:00 Owen Rogers: https://www.loc.gov/programs/veterans...
32:00 Background of Veterans History Project
33:00 WWI through recent conflicts/curation of collections
34:30 Cold War collections
36:00 Digitization priorities
37:00 Cold War challenges
41:00 Cold War culture
44:00 Commending efforts to preserve and document Cold War narratives
50:00 Final thoughts o the impact of oral histories in documenting the human experience.


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