Oral History at Shippensburg University

John Bloom
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Oral history.

Episodes

  1. 01/24/2024

    Call to Action: Local Activists and COVID in the Cumberland Valley

    This episode is part of the COVID in the Cumberland Valley project that students in Dr. John Bloom's Oral History class at Shippensburg University have been conducting since the fall of 2021.

  2. 12/12/2022

    Season 3, Episode 4: Professional Educators Face Challenges During COVID

    Three people in the Cumberland Valley who work in various aspects of education, one a high school teacher, one a college professor, and one a university administrator, discuss their challenges, both personal and professional, during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

  3. 12/02/2022

    Season 3, Episode 3: Be Prepared

    In this episode, Shippensburg University Graduate Students Kathleen Foley, Sarah Hoffeditz, Richard Jones, and Flipe Lupian-Gonzalez look at how COVID affected education in the Cumberland Valley. They focus upon the issue of preparedness. What were we ready for nationally, should we have been more prepared, and how did our national lack of preparation affect education locally? It's a local story, but one relevant to people who live outside the Cumberland Valley of Pennsylvania.

  4. 12/01/2022

    Season 3, Episode 2: A Tale of Crime, Community, and Jewish Identity in Depression Era Woodbine, New Jersy

    Taking a detour from our oral histories of COVID in the Cumberland Valley of Pennsylvania, this podcast looks at an oral history about a painful event in the memories of some who lived in Woodbine, New Jersey during the 1930's. Woodbine, created as a Jewish colony in the late 19th century, had a police chief who moonlighted as a bootlegger of liquor. That all ended during a late night raid of his still, an event that cost him his life. Drawing from an archived oral history interview, Lonna Anderson, Kalyn Clites, and Josiah Vieland take a deep dive into this tragic event, connecting it not only to crime, but to issues of policing and identity that are still relevant to this day.

  5. 11/29/2022

    Season 3, Episode 1: Professionals of Pennsylvania's Cumberland Valley Under Pressure During COVID

    Shippensburg University students Nicholas Collare and Christopher Ott discuss their interviews with their narrators: Dr. Jim Freeman, a medical doctor who resides in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania; and with Bethany Salzarulo, Cumberland County Director of Elections and Voter Registration. They address the difficulties that both encountered as they maintained their professional stature during the early pandemic, encountering lockdowns, new sanitary procedures, and patients who resisted medical advice.

  6. 04/24/2019

    Episode 3: The Disability Studies Program at Shippensburg University

    Oral history students in this episode discuss their interviews with faculty and administrators who helped to create the Shippensburg University Disability Studies Program.

  7. 04/24/2019

    Episode 4: Online Oral Histories of Disability

    Oral history students at Shippensburg University provide a critical exploration of three online oral history projects that address the topic of disability.

  8. 04/23/2019

    Episode 2: Academic Disability Services on College Campuses

    A group of oral history students at Shippensburg University compare and contrast disability services at two different institutions of higher education in south central Pennsylvania.

  9. 04/23/2019

    Episode 1: Disability Educators and Activists

    Six classmates at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania discuss interviews that they conducted with educators who have worked to provide more equitable and accessible lives for their students.

  10. 01/17/2019

    Professors on the Picket Line

    Episode One: In the spring of 2017, students Emily Keating, Taylor Little, Taylor Mason, Tyler Newcomer and Andrea Readshaw in HIS 433 (Oral History) at Shippensburg University conducted an oral history of faculty members who had participated in the first ever strike in the history of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. The three day strike had taken place the previous fall. Students interviewed union officers as well as other faculty who walked the picket line and organized for the faculty union, the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculty (APSCUF). They produced this podcast from their work. There will be more coming from HIS 433 in May of 2019!

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