IWitness Video Challenge: Making the Video
This is part of a three-part blog series written by 2016 IWitness Video Challenge student winners.
Wesley Davidson
Inspired by the issues affecting his students in Chicago, high school English teacher Wesley Davidson authored one of USC Shoah Foundation’s new resources for 100 Days to Inspire Respect.
Davidson, an English teacher at Chicago Tech Academy, authored an IWitness activity called “To Protect and Serve: Community and Policing,” which is the featured resource today, Day 29 of 100 Days to Inspire Respect.
Visual History Archive Informs Scholarly Books and Articles in 2016
Over the course of 2016, testimony from USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive contributed to a wide array of published texts, from studies about the methodology of the Institute’s interviewing and cataloguing, to wholly other subjects that pulled from the VHA to back a defined thesis.
USC Shoah Foundation Presents IWitness at Czech Oral History Association Conference
The annual conference brings together experts in the field to discuss new research and advances in oral history and its use in a variety of contexts.