Tales of USFS

The Shared History program has begun a collaboration with the Office of the Chief Historian of the United States Forest Service (USFS) on an oral historical past undertaking to gather tales from former USFS workers. The undertaking has two elements, a summer time workshop on oral historic analysis to be taught by Federal public historians and a fall semester story assortment marketing campaign.

The workshop is open to all members of the University neighborhood. Members of the University neighborhood who’re within the practicalities of oral historic analysis and who may like a possibility to observe the gathering of oral histories are inspired to attend the workshop and, if they want, take into account volunteering for the gathering story marketing campaign. Students are greater than welcome to take part within the undertaking and to obtain coaching in oral historical past.

Undergraduate and graduate college students who’re concerned with a deeper dive into oral historical past observe and oral historical past idea — easy methods to do oral historical past, concerns across the observe and use of oral histories, how oral histories differ from different varieties of historic data — are inspired to enroll in HIST 485/685, Oral History, to be taught throughout the fall semester of 2022.

Workshop

As half of this undertaking, Shared History is internet hosting an oral historical past workshop. The objective of the workshop is to introduce oral historical past greatest practices to anybody within the University neighborhood — college students or college — concerned with endeavor oral historic analysis or simply interested by it. The workshop can even function an introduction to the collaboration for potential volunteers who may want to achieve some observe in oral historical past. Students enrolled in HIST 485.685, Oral History, can even take part within the undertaking as a practicum element of the course.

The UNR SH/USFS Oral History workshop is June eleventh from 10 a.m. to three p.m. The program can be in Lincoln Hall but in addition out there on Zoom.

The workshop can be two components. An introduction to training oral historical past as a Federal public historian introduced by the U.S. Park Service’s oral historian, Lu Ann Jones, will start at 10 a.m. and proceed to midday. After a lunch break, we’ll return at 1 p.m. to see Lincoln Bramwell’s presentation on the U.S. Forest Service oral historical past program which is able to run to three p.m. Lincoln Bramwell is the chief historian of the USFS.

Lu Ann Jones’s presentation can be of curiosity to anybody excited about state/Federal careers as historians. She skilled on the Southern Oral History Program on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is at the moment chargeable for oral historic analysis and coaching for the United States Park Service in Washington D.C. Previously, she directed “An Oral History of Southern Agriculture” on the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. Her earlier analysis could also be of curiosity to anybody with meals and foodways of their coronary heart. Attending is perhaps alternative for any college students to make connections that additionally may show helpful sooner or later both for analysis or profession causes.

Lincoln Bramwell’s presentation can be extra targeted on the United States Forest Service and the joint UNR Shared History/USFS oral historical past undertaking. During his presentation, he’ll speak about work as a Federal historian of the land, so anybody concerned with land/land-use points and historical past might discover his presentation of worth, too. Lincoln Bramwell skilled in Public History at UNLV and has served because the United States Forest Service’s chief historian for a quantity of years with duties in Washington D.C. and within the subject. He has run the USFS’s oral historical past program throughout his tenure. His present analysis focuses on American agriculture and the position of forest conservation. Lincoln Bramwell’s duties embody interacting with Congressional committees to offer the U.S. Congress with historic perspective.

Story assortment marketing campaign

The story assortment marketing campaign will start the in September 2022. Most of the tales can be collected throughout a convention occasion to be held in South Lake Tahoe September 13-17. If you have an interest in volunteering to gather tales, please tell us on the workshop.

Students enrolled in HIST 485 or HIST 685 will take part in story assortment and evaluation as a sensible element of the course.

For extra info, please contact Christopher von Nagy, Ph.D., Head, Shared History Program.

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