My name is Tamar Sarai Davis and I’m currently a second-year History PhD student at Temple University. My primary objective for this course, The Theory and Practice of Oral History, is to gain firsthand experience with producing an oral history project. I’m also really excited to continue pulling on some of the threads established last semester during Managing History and flesh out my knowledge of both the African American Museum in Philadelphia, as well as Black public history efforts throughout the city in general. For the past 6 years, I’ve worked as a journalist, which has given me a lot of experience interviewing and speaking to different types of people with varying relationships to the subject matter I was reporting on. I’m looking forward to better understanding how the work I’ve done and my existing expertise differs from what is required for an oral history project. What skills will be complementary? What new methods will I have to adopt? What old approaches might I need to adjust?