Sentences with phrase «oral histories became»

When books came along, oral histories became less important.

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Cabrera, who left the school to become president of George Mason University in July 2012, told the school archivist during an oral history interview that the school was reporting an annual budget surplus despite the collapse of the economy in 2009 and 2010.

She provided the core idea and assisted in a project that became «Newington: Highlights of History,» a PowerPoint and oral presentation created by fourth - grade students at two schools in town.

Lawrence - Lightfoot's experience with oral history and family narratives through her book, Balm in Gilead: Journey of a Heale, became one of the topics in the documentary.

- Projects should enable students to become involved in exploring a range of options such as information technology, primary source material, community resources and local organizations, oral histories and interpretative centers as well as traditional resources, to develop their skills.

So I decided to become an Oral Historian and professionally record family and community histories.

Hubbard / Birchler's research in and around Sierra Blanca after they first followed rumors about a place nearby called Movie Mountain sent them straight back to the beginning of the twentieth century and the era of the silent Western, which was at its peak when Movie Mountain became the anonymous hero of Sierra Blanca and the stuff of circuitous oral histories.

-- Alfonso Ossorio, 1968 Oral history interview, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Celebrating Alfonso Ossorio's centennial birthday, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is pleased to present Alfonso Ossorio — Congregations: The First Decade, 1959 - 1969, an exhibition of twenty - four of the mixed - media assemblages coined by the artist as «congregations» that have become emblematic of Ossorio's vision and capacity for innovation.

In this sense, the jokes of Richard Prince comment on a society built around oral tradition: legends become history, history becomes stories and stories become rumors and jokes.

Influenced by the oral history of her family's arrival in the United States from the Philippines, and of growing up in the midwest, Palileo infuses her narratives with both memory and imagination: as stories and recollections are subjected to time and constant retelling, the narratives become questionable, somewhere between fact and fiction, even as they remain cloaked in the convincingly familiar.

Vietnam, a country whose name has become synonymous with war, possesses an intrinsic beauty that is often ignored in written and oral histories.