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 …

The Oral History Reader, now in its third edition, is a comprehensive, international anthology
combining major,'classic'articles with cutting-edge pieces on the theory, method and use of …

In the past sixty years, oral history has moved from the periphery to the mainstream of
academic studies and is now employed as a research tool by historians, anthropologists …

Everyone recognizes that the core audio-video dimension of oral history is notoriously
underutilized. The nicely cataloged but rarely consulted shelves of audio and videocassettes …

According to the Oral History Association, the term oral history refers to" a method of
recording and preserving oral testimony" which results in a verbal document that is" made …

According to the recorded tradition of the North American Oral History Associa-tion," oral
history was established in 1948 as a modern technique for historical docu-mentation when …

Originally intending to produce the first comprehensive scholarly reference guide to the
antecedents, practices, and theory of oral history, the editors have gone even further …

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 …

The question of evidence is as good a one as any, and probably better than most, around
which to organize a few thoughts about oral history. What follows is a series of short …