The Oral History Manual

The Oral History Manual
Author: Barbara W. Sommer
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2018-07-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1442270802

The Oral History Manualis 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 idea through access/use. They examine how to articulate the purpose of an interview, determine legal and ethical parameters, identify narrators and interviewers, choose equipment, develop budgets and record-keeping systems, prepare for and record interviews, care for interview materials, and use the interview information. In this third edition, in addition to new information on methodology, memory, technology, and legal options incorporated into each chapter, a completely new chapter provides guidelines on how to analyze interview content for effective use of oral history interview information. The Oral History Manualprovides an updated and expanded road map and a solid introduction to oral history for all oral history practitioners, from students to community and public historians.

The Order Has Been Carried Out

The Order Has Been Carried Out
Author: Alessandro Portelli
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2016-06-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1403981698

On March 24, 1944, Nazi occupation forces in Rome killed 335 unarmed civilians in retaliation for a partisan attack the day before. Portelli has crafted an eloquent, multi-voiced oral history of the massacre, of its background and its aftermath. The moving stories of the victims, the women and children who survived and carried on, the partisans who fought the Nazis, and the common people who lived through the tragedies of the war together paint a many-hued portrait of one of the world's most richly historical cities. The Order Has Been Carried Out powerfully relates the struggles for freedom under Fascism and Nazism, the battles for memory in post-war democracy, and the meanings of death and grief in modern society.

The Oral History Manual

The Oral History Manual
Author: Barbara W. Sommer
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 075911157X

Guides readers through the process of doing oral history.

Oral History

Oral History
Author: David K. Dunaway
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Total Pages: 433
Release: 1996-09-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0759117632

Oral History: An Interdisciplinary Anthology is a collection of classic articles by some of the best known proponents of oral history, demonstrating the basics of oral history, while also acting as a guidebook for how to use it in research. Added to this new edition is insight into how oral history is practiced on an international scale, making this book an indispensable resource for scholars of history and social sciences, as well as those interested in oral history on the avocational level. This volume is a reprint of the 1984 edition, with the added bonus of a new introduction by David Dunaway and a new section on how oral history is practiced on an international scale. Selections from the original volume trace the origins of oral history in the United States, provide insights on methodology and interpretation, and review the various approaches to oral history used by folklorists, historians, anthropologists, and librarians, among others. Family and ethnic historians will find chapters addressing the applications of oral history in those fields.

Winter Comes, Spring Overcomes

Winter Comes, Spring Overcomes
Author: Bill Henegar
Publisher: Trilogy Christian Publishing
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2020-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781647734008

TO ESCAPE YOUR HURT, LOOK TO LIFE AND LIGHT! Spiritual springtime comes to all who wait and who bless the Lord, trusting in His great name. Winter comes to every life. But God's spring is coming, and when it arrives it OVERCOMES! We can be sure of God's love and healing touch forever! From the bone-chilling winter of discouragement, illness, loneliness, divorce, disability, poverty and a hundred other afflictions, comes the NEW LIFE OF SPRING! This book urges you to seek God with all your heart; seek Him through the winter of your soul and wait for the hope and consolation He brings.

Thinking about Oral History

Thinking about Oral History
Author: Thomas Lee Charlton
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780759110915

Part III and IV of Handbook of Oral History, now available in paper for classroom use.

Doing Oral History

Doing Oral History
Author: Donald A. Ritchie
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780195154344

Contains chapters on the discipline of oral history, especially as it relates to public history; starting an oral history project, including funding, staffing, equipment, processing, and legal concerns; conducting interviews; using oral history in research and writing, including publishing; videotaping oral history; and more.

Dialogue with the Past

Dialogue with the Past
Author: Glenn Whitman
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2004
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780759106499

Oral history is a marvelous force for empowering young people with a love of history. Peppered with useful tips, examples from students and teachers, and reproducible forms, along with an comprehensive bibliography, this book will be a vital and inspirational tool for anyone working with secondary students to plan and carryout oral history projects. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Living Atlanta

Living Atlanta
Author: Clifford M. Kuhn
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2005-03-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780820316970

From the memories of everyday experience, Living Atlanta vividly recreates life in the city during the three decades from World War I through World War II--a period in which a small, regional capital became a center of industry, education, finance, commerce, and travel. This profusely illustrated volume draws on nearly two hundred interviews with Atlanta residents who recall, in their own words, "the way it was"--from segregated streetcars to college fraternity parties, from moonshine peddling to visiting performances by the Metropolitan Opera, from the growth of neighborhoods to religious revivals. The book is based on a celebrated public radio series that was broadcast in 1979-80 and hailed by Studs Terkel as "an important, exciting project--a truly human portrait of a city of people." Living Atlanta presents a diverse array of voices--domestics and businessmen, teachers and factory workers, doctors and ballplayers. There are memories of the city when it wasn't quite a city: "Back in those young days it was country in Atlanta," musician Rosa Lee Carson reflects. "It sure was. Why, you could even raise a cow out there in your yard." There are eyewitness accounts of such major events as the Great Fire of 1917: "The wind blowing that way, it was awful," recalls fire fighter Hugh McDonald. "There'd be a big board on fire, and the wind would carry that board, and it'd hit another house and start right up on that one. And it just kept spreading." There are glimpses of the workday: "It's a real job firing an engine, a darn hard job," says railroad man J. R. Spratlin. "I was using a scoop and there wasn't no eight hour haul then, there was twelve hours, sometimes sixteen." And there are scenes of the city at play: "Baseball was the popular sport," remembers Arthur Leroy Idlett, who grew up in the Pittsburgh neighborhood. "Everybody had teams. And people--you could put some kids out there playing baseball, and before you knew a thing, you got a crowd out there, watching kids play." Organizing the book around such topics as transportation, health and religion, education, leisure, and politics, the authors provide a narrative commentary that places the diverse remembrances in social and historical context. Resurfacing throughout the book as a central theme are the memories of Jim Crow and the peculiarities of black-white relations. Accounts of Klan rallies, job and housing discrimination, and poll taxes are here, along with stories about the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, early black forays into local politics, and the role of the city's black colleges. Martin Luther King, Sr., historian Clarence Bacote, former police chief Herbert Jenkins, educator Benjamin Mays, and sociologist Arthur Raper are among those whose recollections are gathered here, but the majority of the voices are those of ordinary Atlantans, men and women who in these pages relive day-to-day experiences of a half-century ago.