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Explore our suggested readings and links below and to learn more about the practice, methodology, theory, digital technologies, and challenges of oral history.
Explore our suggested readings and links below and to learn more about the practice, methodology, theory, digital technologies, and challenges of oral history.
Oral History Websites and Resources:
Oral History Websites and Resources:
Society of American Archivists Oral History Resources
Oral History Association Principles and Best Practices
Oral History in the Digital Age
Oral History for Social Change
Nebraska State Historical Society Oral History Best Practices
Oral History Methodology
Oral History Methodology
Baum, Willa. Transcribing and Editing Oral History. Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1991.
Ritchie, Donald A. Doing Oral History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Sommer, Barbara W. and Mary Kay Quinlan. The Oral History Manual. AltaMira Press, 2002.
Charlton, Thomas L., Lois E. Meyers, and Rebecca Sharpless, eds. Handbook of Oral History. AltaMira Press, 2006.
Gluck, Sherna Berger, and Daphne Patai, eds. Women's Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral History. New York: Routledge, 1991.
Grele, Ronald J. Envelopes of Sound: The Art of Oral History. Praeger, 1991.
Perks, Robert, and Alistair Thomson, eds. The Oral History Reader, Second Edition, ed. New York: Routledge, 2006.
Thompson, Paul. The Voice of the Past: Oral History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978.
Thomson, Alistair. “Four Paradigm Transformations in Oral History.” The Oral History Review 34:1 (Winter/Spring 2007): 49-70.
Yow, Valerie Raleigh. Recording Oral History: A Guide for the Humanities and Social Sciences. 3rd ed. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.
Oral History Theory
Oral History Theory
Halbwachs, Maurice. On Collective Memory. Edited and translated by Lewis A. Coser. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
Popular Memory Group. “Popular Memory: Theory, Politics, Method.” In The Oral History Reader, Second Edition, ed. Robert Perks and Alistair Thomson, 43-53 New York: Routledge, 2006.
Portelli, Alessandro. The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories: Form and Meaning in Oral History. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991.
Oral History and Digital Technologies
Oral History and Digital Technologies
Frisch, Michael. “Oral History and the Digital Revolution: Toward a Post-Documentary Sensibility.” In The Oral History Reader, Second Edition, ed. Robert Perks and Alistair Thomson, 102-114. New York: Routledge, 2006.
Oral History and Public History
Oral History and Public History
Baum, Willa K. Oral History for the Local Historical Society. Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1987.
Frisch, Michael. A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990.
Green, Anna. “The Exhibit that Speaks for Itself: Oral History and Museums.” In The Oral History Reader, Second Edition, ed. Robert Perks and Alistair Thomson, 416-424. New York: Routledge, 2006.
Shopes, Linda. “Oral History and the Study of Communities: Problems, Paradoxes and Possibilities.” Journal of American History 89, no. 2 (2002): 588-98.
Kammen, Carol. On Doing Local History
Allen, Barbara, and Lynwood Montell. From Memory to History: Using Oral Sources in Local Historical Research. Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1981.
Oral History in the Classroom
Oral History in the Classroom
Lanman, Barry A. and Laura M. Wendling, eds. Preparing the Next Generation of Oral Historians: An Anthology of Oral History Education
Whitman, Glen, Dialogue with the Past: Engaging Students and Meeting Standards through Oral History.
Hoopes, James. Oral History: An Introduction for Students. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979.
Sitton, Thad, George L. Mehaffy, and O.L. Davis, Jr. Oral History: A Guide for Teachers (and Others). Austin: University of Austin Press: 1983.
Wigginton, Eliot, ed. The Foxfire Book. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1972.
Oral History Challenges
Oral History Challenges
Borland, Katherine. “‘That’s Not What I Said’: Interpretive Conflict in Oral Narrative Research.” In The Oral History Reader, Second Edition, ed. Robert Perks and Alistair Thomson, 310-321. New York: Routledge, 2006.
Yow, Valerie. “‘Do I Like Them Too Much?’ Effects of the Oral History Interview on the Interviewer and Vice-Versa.” Oral History Review 24, no. 1 (1997): 55-79.
Oral History and Memory
Oral History and Memory
Hoffman, Alice. Archives of Memory: A Soldier Recalls World War II.
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