This is a project for History Nebraska (the Nebraska State Historical Society). Its focus is on changes in downtown Omaha, Nebraska, between the years 1965-1990. In this project, which focuses on descriptions of the image of downtown and the vision for change, interviewees describe the changes and discuss the actions that brought them about.

Working with team member Erica S. Schultz, I have led the three stages of the Minnesota Council on Foundations Oral History Project. This multi-year Legacy funded oral history project has helped document the history of philanthropy from the viewpoint of foundation leaders in Minnesota. The interviews and all project materials are held by the Minnesota Council on Foundations.

Our team of interviewers recently completed the HIV Healthcare Providers Oral History Project. This 5-year Legacy grant funded project resulted in 35 fully transcribed interviews. The interviews and all related project materials are in the The Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies at the University of Minnesota Libraries.

Mary Kay Quinlan and I have now completed and published the 4th edition of The Oral History Manual; it came out in August of 2024.  We’ve updated discussions on technology, information about planning, interviewing, and preservation and access updates, and advances in uses of oral history

We were pleased to be asked by our publisher, Rowman & Littlefield, now Bloomsbury Publishing Pic, to write the 4th edition and are proud of its place in the oral history field.

Look for information about the 4th edition on my website and on the publisher’s website. The book may be purchased through Amazon and other standard sales sites.

The Lincoln Branch Library, a Carnegie library now owned by the Duluth Art Institute, was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2013 as a result of a nomination I prepared. Thank you to Erik Sommer for helping with the research in the Andrew Carnegie Collection at Columbia University.

The Worthington Bandshell is now listed in the National Register of Historic Places, the result of a nomination I wrote. The NRHP plaque  has been put on the bandshell; it is just above its original (Works Progress Administration) WPA National Youth Administration plaque recognizing the bandshell as a WPA/NYA project.

The Worthington War Memorial Building/County Library building is now listed in the National Register of Historic Places. I wrote  the nomination and saw it through the nomination and listing process. This listing recognizes its history as the only building in Minnesota built through the State of Minnesota War Memorial Building statute (Minnesota Statutes 1945, Section 373.053) and its ties to the New Deal Works Progress Administration (WPA) Statewide Library Project.

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