More than a mode of gathering information about the past, oral history has become an
international movement. Historians, folklorists, and other educational and religious groups …

In neighborhoods, schools, community centers, and workplaces, people are using oral
history to capture and collect the kinds of stories that the history books and the media tend to …

A practical step-by-step guide for gathering history from the people who've experienced it.
Oral History for the Local Historical Society, a classic in the field for three decades, tells you …

This how-to guide gives clear, helpful, specific advice on every step of the oral history
process: using the tape recorder; conducting the interview; transcribing the interview; editing …

Preparing the Next Generation of Oral Historians is an invaluable resource to educators
seeking to bring history alive for students at all levels. The anthology opens with chapters on …

The book presents information on the use of oral history as a classroom device. The first
chapter discusses the evolution of oral history from a practice intended to preserve …

A manual addressed to students rather than to teachers or researchers, Oral History: An
Introduction for Students is unique among the" how to" books in the field, adapting some of …

This guidebook examines the kinds of oral history materials available to local researchers
and presents ways to evaluate and interpret those materials. There are six chapters. Chapter …

Doing Oral History is considered the premier guidebook to oral history, used by professional
oral historians, public historians, archivists, and genealogists as a core text in college …

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 …