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Early Contributions to Aviation
Oral History Research Office
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| Randy Johnson |
Randy Johnson is the dean of the College of Aviation at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU), Prescott, AZ. He received his Ph.D. in mass communication from Ohio University in 1999, and his research interests include aviation history and regulation. Johnson has taught at ERAU's extended campus in Corpus Christi, Texas as well as at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. He is a retired Coast Guard aviator and holds Airline Transport Pilot, Multi-Engine Land, Commercial, Single-Engine Land, Rotorcraft (Instrument) certificates, as well as a Certified Flight Instructor certificate.
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| Oral History Research Office |
The Columbia University Oral History Research Office is the oldest and largest organized oral history program in the world. Founded in 1948 by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Allan Nevins, the oral history collection now contains nearly 8,000 taped memoirs, and nearly 1,000,000 pages of transcript. These memoirs include interviews with a wide variety of historical figures. Some interviews, conducted in the late 1940s, contain recollections dating back to the second administration of Grover Cleveland. An interview with Charles C. Burlingham conducted in 1949 opens with a discussion of the drafts riots during the Civil War.
Over 2,000 scholars a year consult the interviews from the oral history collection archived at Columbia University. While a large part of this collection consists of biographical memoirs, historians and researchers also have at their disposal a rich range of projects focusing on specific topics and experiences. These include a series of interviews on the student movement of the 1960s in Europe and the United States; interviews with religious, political and business leaders around institutional affiliations; and special projects on the American crafts movement and the history of philanthropy. Most recently, the Oral History Office has conducted a large project on the history of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Through that project, the Office began a program of videotaping oral history by broadcast standards, merging the best practices of audio-taped oral history with state-of-the-art video interviewing.
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| Fathom |
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