The ninth season of the Hall Center’s annual oral history workshop continues to engage the art, science, culture and craft of oral history and oral history reporting. This year’s theme, Beyond These Hallowed Halls—Educating America, encourages us to take a critical look at the connection between our past and our future as we turn to projects in individual and group history that have had a significant impact upon our public memory. Many who refer to “the way it was” or “the good old days” seldom realize or acknowledge that we know some stories and not others, nor do they take into account the role of voice, power and ethics in shaping our received impressions of the past. This has a direct bearing on traditions in education that have been fundamental to the way we view ourselves as a nation and a people. This year’s workshop offers presentations on oral history that will take us to the heart of what it means to be an American, paying special attention to encounters in the realm of education, and the complex social questions and histories involved.

Presenters include:

	Barry Jacobs, author and journalist. Jacobs has been covering sports for more than three decades and is the author of six books. His latest work, from which his talk will be taken, is Across the Line—Profiles in Basketball Courage: Tales of the First Black Players in the ACC and SEC.  The book will be available for sale. Jacobs will also join KU’s own Paul Buskirk and others in a special panel on the topic of “The College Athlete,” and share insights on the history of KU athletes and athletics.
	Valinda Littlefield, assistant professor of History and African American Studies, University of South Carolina. Littlefield’s research has focused on African American women educators in the South, beginning with the Jeanes Teachers in the early twentieth century. Her talk will be taken from her forthcoming book, I am Only One, But I am One: Southern African American Women Schoolteachers and Black Freedom, 1884-1954.
	Theresa Milk earned her BA in American Indian Studies from Haskell Indian Nations University and her Master's and Doctorate degrees from the University of Kansas.  While she was a graduate student, she earned the Crystal Eagle Award from the Center for Indigenous Nations Studies Program at KU in 2007.  Dr. Milk is the author of Haskell Institute:  19th Century Stories of Sacrifice and Survival & Haskell Cemetery Walking Tour, published by Mammoth Publishing in 2007.  She is presently an Instructor of English at Haskell Indian Nations University, where she has taught since 2001.  She is also a mother, grandmother, teacher and student of life.
	Yoon Pak, associate professor of Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois. Pak has done extensive work on both Seattle’s Japanese American community and the Colville Indian Tribe in Spokane. Her research focuses on the intercultural classroom and democratic citizenship education, and Americanization and the acculturation of ethnic minorities and immigrant groups in the US. Pak will talk about her project, “Letters from Seattle’s Japanese American, Nisei, Schoolchildren on the Eve of Their Internment.”

Other workshop sessions will focus on the oral history of immigrant schools in Kansas, factory schools, and education in alternative school sites.