On Monday, January 5th, 2009 New York City will host the 123rd annual meeting of the American Historical Association. The programme is extremely varied and there is a multitude of sessions that concentrate on a wide variety of historical subjects.
One session chaired by David Suisman from the University of Delaware is of particular interest to the Spoken Word. It is entitled ‘What is Sound to a Historian? - Critical Perspectives on the Use of Recordings as Historical Sources’.
We thought it would be interesting both for us and for the Chairman and Panel of this session if we contacted them in order to let them know about the spectrum of historical resources that the Spoken Word project can offer to the educational community.
We have recordings on a host of historical subjects ranging from Leonard Cheshire’s eyewitness account of the atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki to recordings of various parts of the trials at Nuremberg.
The following is a list of the names and conact details of the panel that will be attending the event:
Chair
- David Suisman, University of Delaware, dsuisman@udel.edu, http://www.udel.edu/History/bio/suisman_david.html
Panel
- Charles A. Hardy III, West Chester University, chardy@wcupa.edu, http://www.talkinghistory.org/hardy.html
- Elena Razlogova, Concordia University, erazlogo@alcor.concordia.ca, http://elenarazlogova.org/index.html
- Jonathan Sterne, McGill University, jonathan.sterne@mcgill.ca, http://www.mcgill.ca/ahcs/faculty/sterne/
- Emily Thompson, Princeton University, emilyt@Princeton.EDU, http://www.princeton.edu/history/people/display_person.xml?netid=emilyt
- Derek Vaillant, University of Michigan, dvail@umich.edu, http://www-personal.umich.edu/~dvail/
We will update the blog and let you know about any progress with the correspondence.
