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The official oral history of the Obama White House is a stark and extensive reminder of the values and the principles that are being trampled. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Last night, @ms.now featured interviews from the Obama Presidency Oral History in a segment examining how the Obama administration viewed Donald Trump and his 2016 campaign at the time. www.ms.now/katy-tur/wat...

New oral history interviews reveal Obama admin never saw Trump win coming www.ms.now/katy-tur/wat...

So the Obama administration oral history project went live today. An extraordinary resource for historians and teachers, and a great credit to the team of folks who compiled them all, including Evan McCormick, @pastpunditry.bsky.social and many others.

Over three years, we recorded interviews with more than 450 officials, organizers, activists, and extraordinary people from all walks of life to put together the most expansive presidential oral history in existence. The Obama Presidency Oral History is now live!! obamaoralhistory.columbia.edu

Fantastic project, and very cool to see the @universityofhawaii.bsky.social contribution, including Micah Mizukami's, a PhD student in my department who is also AD of the Center for Oral History.

A new set of oral history interviews released by @incitecolumbia.bsky.social documents how Obama and his advisers missed the shifting mood of the country that would ultimately replace him with a successor they considered a “con man,” “clown” and “laughingstock.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...

Today, we're launching the Obama Presidency Oral History—a comprehensive record of the Obama presidency through the voices of officials, artists, organizers and people from all walks of life. 462 Interviews, 1100 hours of audio and video, 6 years in the making. obamaoralhistory.columbia.edu