The Oral History Review articles from January 2000

The Oral History Review archives from January 2000

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION.
January 1, 2000... I assumed the editorship less than two months before this issue had to go to the printer, so all of the articles that appear here came to the Review and went through the editorial process while Bruce Stave was serving as editor. Bruce served as...

Private Memory, Public Records, and Contested Terrain: Weighing Oral Testimony in the Deportation of Germans from Latin America During World War II.
January 1, 2000... As World War II spread from Europe and Asia to the Western Hemisphere, the conflict between the United States and Germany for influence in Latin America took a peculiar turn. U.S. officials in embassies and consulates from Lima to Havana drew...

"You Said the Words You Wanted Me to Hear But I Heard The Words You Couldn't Bring Yourself To Say": Women's First Person Accounts of the Holocaust.
January 1, 2000... Introduction Women's oral documentation and autobiographies can often be pivotal factors in understanding the Holocaust from a broader perspective. By letting the survivor speak for herself she becomes a subject--and not only an object--of...

Remembering Ah Quin: A Century of Social Memory in a Chinese American Family.
January 1, 2000... Introduction This article is not the history of a Chinese American family, but an analysis of how Ah Quin, a Chinese American immigrant pioneer, is remembered by his descendants.(1) It explores what is remembered and what is forgotten, and...

Gender and Economic Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region, 1920-1970.
January 1, 2000... Each economic crisis in the United States adds to a now long-established social science research literature on unemployed and displaced workers. A recession in 1914-15, for example, generated the first comprehensive studies of employment...

Oral History, Memory, and the Hallways of Academe: Tenure Decisions and Other Job Skirmishes.
January 1, 2000... Tenure is so firmly embedded in American academic culture, says Richard T. De George (University of Kansas), a philosopher, that many college and university professors view the concept and practice as indisputable.(1) "In fact," write Robert W....

An Interview With James V. Mink.
January 1, 2000... TRELEVEN: It's April 20, 1999, and I'm in the offices of the Oral History Program at UCLA. I'm interviewing James Mink for the Oral History Review. Jim, maybe to begin with, why don't you tell me where and when you were born and a little about...

STEP BY STEP: BUILDING A FEMINIST MOVEMENT, 1941-1977.(Review)
January 1, 2000... STEP BY STEP: BUILDING A FEMINIST MOVEMENT, 1941-1977. Produced by Joyce Follet. Madison: Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System, 1998. Sale: $40.00; Shipping: $5.00. Juxtaposing these two films is evocative and useful. Both...

BARBIE NATION: AN UNAUTHORIZED TOUR.(Review)
January 1, 2000... BARBIE NATION: AN UNAUTHORIZED TOUR. Produced by Susan Stern. Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ: New Day Films. Sale: $250.00; Rental: $80.00; Shipping: $10.00. 1(888)367-9154; email, www.newday.com-orders@newday.com. Juxtaposing these two films is evocative...

YOU'VE GOT TO HEAR THIS STORY: A VIDEO ON HOW TO DO ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEWS.(Review)
January 1, 2000... YOU'VE GOT TO HEAR THIS STORY: A VIDEO ON HOW TO DO ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEWS. Produced by the T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1998. 30 minutes. Sale: $34.95 (includes teaching manual). T. Harry...

HISTORY FROM THE LIVING: THE ORGANIZATION AND CRAFT OF ORAL HISTORY.(Review)
January 1, 2000... HISTORY FROM THE LIVING: THE ORGANIZATION AND CRAFT OF ORAL HISTORY. Produced by Jennifer N. Long. Newport: Grin Productions, 1998. 17 minutes. Sale: $20.00. 80 Division Street, Newport, RI 02840. In the videography of oral history,...

THE WHOLE WORLD WAS WATCHING: AN ORAL HISTORY OF 1968.
January 1, 2000... THE WHOLE WORLD WAS WATCHING: AN ORAL HISTORY OF 1968. Scholarly Technology Group, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1998. http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/ 1968/. While the notion of a fully digitized library has been the seat...

AMERICAN MEMORY: HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS FOR THE NATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARY.
January 1, 2000... AMERICAN MEMORY: HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS FOR THE NATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARY. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 1999. http://lcweb2.1oc.gov/ammem/ ammemhome.html. While the notion of a fully digitized library has been the seat of...

I STAND IN THE CENTER OF THE GOOD: INTERVIEWS WITH CONTEMPORY NATIVE AMERICAN ARTISTS.(Review)
January 1, 2000... I STAND IN THE CENTER OF THE GOOD: INTERVIEWS WITH CONTEMPORY NATIVE AMERICAN ARTISTS. Edited by Lawrence Abbott. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994. 292 pp. Hardbound $45.00. This is a handsome volume of seventeen interviews...

THE TEMPTATION: EDGAR TOLSON AND THE GENESIS OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY FOLK ART.(Review)
January 1, 2000... THE TEMPTATION: EDGAR TOLSON AND THE GENESIS OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY FOLK ART. By Julia S. Ardery. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. 353 pp. Hardbound $45.00; Softbound $19.95. The name Edgar Tolson may not be a household...

RISING TIDE: THE GREAT MISSISSIPPI FLOOD OF 1927 AND HOW IT CHANGED AMERICA.(Review)
January 1, 2000... RISING TIDE: THE GREAT MISSISSIPPI FLOOD OF 1927 AND HOW IT CHANGED AMERICA. By John M. Barry. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997. 524 pp. Hardbound $27.50; Softbound $15.00. On first consideration, John M. Barry's Rising Tide is an...

LIVING FEMINISM.(Review)
January 1, 2000... LIVING FEMINISM. By Cilia Bulbeck. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 279 pp. Softbound $24.95. Living Feminism is an appropriate title for this well-researched book. Professor Bulbeck has interviewed a wide selection of women in...

NARRATIVE AND GENRE, VOLUME I.(Review)
January 1, 2000... NARRATIVE AND GENRE, VOLUME I, Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative. Edited by Mary Chamberlain and Paul Thompson. Routledge, 1998. 201 pp. Hardbound $75.00. A few years ago at an annual meeting of the Oral History Association I...

SENATORS ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL: THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION.(Review)
January 1, 2000... SENATORS ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL: THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION. By Richard F. Fenno, Jr. The Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture Series. Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996. 375 pp. Hardbound $24.95; Softbound $15.95. ...

THE UNKNOWN CITY: THE LIVES OF POOR AND WORKING-CLASS YOUNG ADULTS.(Review)
January 1, 2000... THE UNKNOWN CITY: THE LIVES OF POOR AND WORKING-CLASS YOUNG ADULTS. By Michelle Fine and Lois Weis. Boston: Beacon Press, 1998. 342 pp. Hardbound $26.00. The analysis of life histories of today's poor and working-class adults can...

WHISTLING IN THE DARK: MEMORY AND CULTURE IN WARTIME LONDON.(Review)
January 1, 2000... WHISTLING IN THE DARK: MEMORY AND CULTURE IN WARTIME LONDON. By Jean R. Freedman. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1998. 224 pp. Hardbound $29.95. Being a "Brit," although born well after the events described in this book, I...

COUNTRY DOCTOR: THE STORY OF DR. CLAIRE LOUISE CAUDILL.(Review)
January 1, 2000... COUNTRY DOCTOR: THE STORY OF DR. CLAIRE LOUISE CAUDILL. By Shirley Gish. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1999. 168 pp. Hardbound $22.50. This small volume contains interviews with the legendary country physician Claire "Louise"...

ROCK BURST.(Review)
January 1, 2000... ROCK BURST. By Bert Russell and Marie Russell. Moscow: University of Idaho Press, 1998.425 pp. Hardbound $39.95. Barbara Howard Meldrum, the University of Idaho professor of literature who wrote the introduction to Rock Burst, accurately...

FERTILE GROUND, NARROW CHOICES: WOMEN ON TEXAS COTTON FARMS, 1900-1940.(Review)
January 1, 2000... FERTILE GROUND, NARROW CHOICES: WOMEN ON TEXAS COTTON FARMS, 1900-1940. By Rebecca Sharpless. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xxiii, 319 pp. Hardbound $59.95; Softbound $19.95. In this important study, Sharpless,...

MY AMERICAN CENTURY.(Review)
January 1, 2000... MY AMERICAN CENTURY. By Studs Terkel. New York: The New Press, 1997. 714 pp. Hardbound $25.00; Softbound $14.95. Who built the American century and who chronicles it? Some answers can be found in the New Press oral history anthology My...