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  1. How to Do Oral History

    After the Oral History Interview. 1. Download interview files onto your computer, following the instructions provided. 2. On your computer, rename each file by right clicking on file and selecting rename. Rename it in this format: LastnameFirstname_Date_Interview#_File#, for example, JonesSandra_04-30-2020_1. 3.

  2. PDF Oral Histories as a Research Method

    Defining oral histories "We all have stories to tell, stories we have lived from the inside out. Oral history listens to these stories. Oral history is the systematic collection of living people's testimony about their own experiences. Historians have finally recognized that the everyday memories of everyday people have historical importance.

  3. The Oral History Review

    The Oral History Review, the official publication of the Oral History Association since 1973, explores the recording, transcribing, and preserving of conversations with people who have participated in important political, cultural, and economic social developments in modern times.. Articles, book and film reviews, and bibliographies deal with the authentication of human experience and research ...

  4. The Oral History Review

    The Oral History Review, published by the Oral History Association, is the U.S. journal of record for the theory and practice of oral history and related fields.The journal's primary mission is to explore the nature and significance of oral history and advance understanding of the field among scholars, educators, practitioners, and the general public.

  5. Oral History and the Historical Process

    Most students who are using oral history for a research paper will be conducting topical interviews. While you do want to record some basic biographical information about each interviewee even in topical interviews, the main focus should be to ask questions that reveal how the interviewee has impacted your topic or witnessed something about ...

  6. Oral History

    Oral History aims to contribute to developments in the theory and practice of oral history. It welcomes contributions, whether long or short articles, news items, reviews or reports of meetings, conferences or new projects. The joint editors welcome contributions from a wide range of disciplines and practices, for example, women's studies ...

  7. The Oxford Handbook of Oral History

    The Oxford Handbook of Oral History brings together forty authors on five continents to address the evolution of oral history, the impact of digital technology, the most recent methodological and archival issues, and the application of oral history to both scholarly research and public presentations. The volume offers diverse perspectives on ...

  8. Oral History Method and Theory Today—A Review Essay and Commentary

    Handbook of Oral History chapters were written expressly for this book and with its goals in mind, giving this anthology rela tive thematic coherence. This volume has particular relevance for Kentucky, home of the only state agency devoted solely to supporting oral history and, as a result, a longtime leader in statewide oral history research.

  9. About Oral History

    The Oral History Review, published by the Oral History Association, is the U.S. journal of record for the theory and practice of oral history. Its primary mission is to explore the nature and significance of oral history and advance understanding of the field among scholars, educators, practitioners, and the general public.

  10. Oral History

    Oral History and Interviews, Harvard Library Research Guide for History. Compiled by Harvard Librarians, this guide offers strategies for locating oral history interviews, as well as a list of relevant databases and collections. Oral Histories at Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. Get started with archival research on women ...

  11. PDF ORAL HISTORY

    research technique that allows the expression of voice. While storytelling has a deep history, the adaptation of this human process into a legitimated research method is relatively new. Oral history was established in 1948 as a modern technique for historical documentation when Columbia University historian Allan Nevins began

  12. Oral History

    Oral history can be a valuable source of evidence for understanding the experiences of individuals or groups within a certain historical period. Oral testimony cannot replace analysis of traditional historical materials (official documents, letters, newspapers, secondary sources, etc.). It can, however, reveal the role of individuals in shaping ...

  13. Oral History

    The Oral History Manual is designed to help anyone interested in doing oral history research to think like an oral historian. Recognizing that oral history is a research methodology, the authors define oral history and then discuss the methodology in the context of the oral history life cycle - the guiding steps that take a practitioner from ...

  14. Step-by-Step Guide to Oral History

    Sequence for Oral History Research. Formulate a central question or issue. Plan the project. Consider such things as end products, budget, publicity, evaluation, personnel, equipment, and time frames. ... Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991. "Women's Oral ...

  15. PDF Introduction to Oral History

    Oral history provides a fuller, more accurate picture of the past by augmenting the infor-mation provided by public records, statistical data, photographs, maps, letters, diaries, and ... Oral history is person-centered research. The creation of a recorded interview is a partnership between the narrator and interviewer. To succeed, the oral ...

  16. Oral History Research Papers

    This article describes the use of Photography and Oral History research methods as part of a collaborative research project on homelessness in Miami. Issues involving the use of documentary photography and oral history as a means of creating greater social awareness in the general public are explored, as well as broader issues of Social Justice.

  17. Oral History in UK Doctoral Research: Extent of Use and Researcher

    Footnote 2 At the same time, academics are increasingly using oral history in teaching and research across many disciplines in UK higher education institutions (HEIs), as evidenced by the volume and range of papers presented at various conferences and seminar series and the longevity of events including the Oral History Society's annual ...

  18. Oral History: Oral History Projects and Examples

    The Voices of Feminism Oral History Project documents the persistence and diversity of organizing for women in the United States in the latter half of the 20th century. Narrators include labor, peace, and anti-racism activists; artists and writers; lesbian rights advocates; grassroots anti-violence and anti-poverty organizers; and women of ...

  19. 5 Memory and Remembering in Oral History

    The nineteenth-century development of an academic history discipline led to the primacy of archival research and documentary sources, and a marginalization of oral evidence, until the mid-twentieth century. 3 Gradual acceptance of the usefulness and validity of oral evidence, and the increasing availability of portable tape recorders ...

  20. UCLA Library

    The UCLA Center for Oral History Research (COHR) conducts in-depth, multi-session oral history interviews with individuals who have been a part of the history of Los Angeles and its many communities. COHR has particularly strong collections in the history of social movements, communities of color, the arts, Los Angeles politics and government ...

  21. 3.7: Oral History and the Historical Process

    Most students who are using oral history for a research paper will be conducting topical interviews. While you do want to record some basic biographical information about each interviewee even in topical interviews, the main focus should be to ask questions that reveal how the interviewee has impacted your topic or witnessed something about ...

  22. (PDF) Oral History and Oral Traditions

    The chitrakars trick the prison guards by painting a guard and bringing him to life. As they escape to the hills, the king sends his army and, later, pursues them himself. When the king enters the battlefield, he is surprised to find himself facing an identical twin - a "false" king created by the chitrakar.

  23. PDF Oral History Basic Information FINAL (1)

    The following six considerations are basic to good oral history practice. 1. RESEARCH: Thorough preparation enables the interviewer to know what questions to ask and is ... terms, photos, etc., legal forms, extra paper for notes and a pen. Also bring throat lozenges or hard candy, in case throats get dry. If possible, bring a camera and take ...

  24. When is the "right" moment for collecting oral histories?

    As the infamous Belfast case illustrates, oral histories, particularly those collected or archived using institutional resources are susceptible to legal discovery, subpeoneas, and other tools of institutional power. For that reason, the Oral History Archives at Columbia will not be actively collecting oral histories from student protestors.