Oral History: Creating and Teaching the New North Carolina History
 
with Dr. Spencie Love, Dr. David Cecelski, Dr. Pamela Grundy, Alicia
Rouverol, Jill Hemming, Kathy Newfont and Kelly Navies of the
Southern Oral History Program and the "Listening for a Change: North
Carolina Communities in Transition" project
 
Saturday, March 6, 1999 from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. (lunch provided)
Toy Lounge, 4th floor of  Dey Hall
UNC-Chapel Hill
 
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About this Seminar Topic
This seminar will introduce participants to some of the exciting new oral history projects currently being conducted around the state. North Carolina is undergoing a period of rapid historical change and social transformation: SOHP researchers and many other scholars and community groups are working to capture the voices and memories of N.C. citizens, both old and new, as the 20th century draws to a close. Among the topics being explored are changing schools and communities, the loss of familiar landscapes and ways of life, economic and environmental changes, new immigrants to the state, and changing  Southern religious experiences. We will work as a team to offer concrete strategies and resources for introducing oral history projects to students in secondary school English and social studies classes. We plan to focus primarily on two possible approaches: school history group projects and family history individual projects. However, we will be available for participants' questions about oral history and its many uses. We would appreciate as much advance information as possible from interested participants about their previous experiences with oral history, their interests and their needs.

About the Presenters
Spencie Love is currently Assistant Director of the Southern Oral History Program. Her book, One Blood: The Death and Resurrection of Charles R. Drew, was published by UNC Press in 1996. Dr. David Cecelski is an independent scholar and author who currently writes a monthly column for the Raleigh News and Observer, "Listening to History," based on interviews conducted for the Southern Oral History Program.  He published Along Freedom Road: Hyde County, North Carolina and the Fate of  Black Schools in the South in 1994, co-edited Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy in 1998. Dr. Pamela Grundy  is a visiting assistant professor at Davidson College and the author of an oral history collection "You Always Think of Home": A Portrait of Clay County, Alabama.  Alicia Rouverol and Jill Hemming are independent folklorists with extensive experience designing and conducting oral history projects. Rouverol is the co-author of "I Was Content and Not Content": The Story of Linda Lord and the Closing of Penobscot Poultry, recently published. Kathy Newfont and Kelly Navies are UNC doctoral candidates conducting oral history research for their dissertations in western North Carolina. Both have significant and wide-ranging teaching experience.
 
How to Register
PHE events are open to all current and future North Carolina school teachers, public and private, as well as  faculty and graduate students in local departments of history and schools of education.  Coffee and light  morning refreshments will be served beginning at 9:30 am, and we will provide a free lunch.  Those who  attend will receive a set of materials including the primary documents that will be discussed at the seminar.  Each attendee who completes the seminar will also receive a letter attesting to his or her participation, which  may be given to the appropriate authorities to receive renewal credit.  There is no fee for this event, but  you must register in advance.  To RSVP or if you have any questions, please call the PHE office
(919-962-2385) and leave a message, or e-mail our coordinator, Kathy Walbert (phe@unc.edu) no later  than March 1.  We hope to see you on March 6.
 
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