The Oral History Review articles from January 2002

The Oral History Review archives from January 2002

Editor's introduction.
January 1, 2002... Although this issue of the Oral History Review has no overriding theme, its articles examine people outside the mainstream of American society: an ethnic minority (the Slovaks of Philadelphia), a victim of racially-motivated murder whose case...

"Not communists exactly, but sort of like non-believers": the hidden radical transcript of Slovak immigrants in Philadelphia, 1890-1954.
January 1, 2002... In the course of every ethnographic project there comes at last a moment of existential angst. After hours of oral histories, a fearful question arises: How do I know what I think I know? For me, the question came early, prompted by Julie S.'s...

Different assignments, different perspectives: how reporters reconstruct the Emmett Till civil rights murder trial.
January 1, 2002... When 14-year-old Chicago native Emmett Till walked into a grocery store in the Delta town of Money, Mississippi on an August evening in 1955 and "wolf whistled" at the store owner's wife working behind the counter, he set off a chain of events...

Qualifying the quantifying: assessing the quality of life of lung transplant recipients.
January 1, 2002... A gaunt woman, weakened by years of lung disease, gasping for every breath, living tethered to an oxygen tank, and barely able to leave her bed, grimly acknowledges the doctor's confirmation that the end is near. At the same time, though, she...

The guerrilla journalist as oral historian: an interview with Louis "Studs" Terkel.(Interview)
January 1, 2002... ALAN HARRIS STEIN: In 1997 you received the National Humanities Medal from President Clinton, honoring you as "America's oral historian." What does it mean to be one of the great oral historians of the century? (1) STUDS TERKEL: I don't...

Of place and community.(books on rural communities)
January 1, 2002... A PLACE TO REMEMBER: USING HISTORY TO BUILD COMMUNITY. By Robert R. Archibald. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 1999. 224 pp. Hardbound $59.00; Softbound $22.95. THE KENTUCKY RIVER. By William E. Ellis. Lexington: University Press of...

What My Mother Never Told Me ... Reminiscences of a Child of a Holocaust Survivor.
January 1, 2002... Presented by Lisa Lipkin, October 20, 2001, St. Louis, MO. Audiotape, $10.00. Lisa Lipkin, 511 Sixth Avenue, Suite 151, New York, NY 10011, (212) 679-3829. Children of Holocaust survivors inhabit the landscape of memory. They have not...

Conscience and the Constitution.(motion picture about internment of Japanese Americans during WW II)
January 1, 2002... Produced by Frank Abe. Hohokus, NJ: Transit Media, 2000. 56 minutes. Sale, $29.95 (Home Viewing); $150 (High Schools and Non-profit institutions); $265.00 (College and University Libraries). Shipping rates vary. Transit Media, 22-D Hollywood...

Arguing the World.(motion picture about Jewish intellectuals)
January 1, 2002... Produced, written and directed by Joseph Dorman. New York: First Run Features. 109 minutes. Sale, $29.95. First Run Features, 153 Waverly Place, New York, NY 10014, (800) 228-8575, http://www.firstrunfeatures.com/vid/arguin.html. Arguing...

Isolated Incidents.(multimedia presentation on police brutality and racial violence)
January 1, 2002... Presented by Patricia Payne, October 19, 2001, St. Louis, MO. Patricia Payne's multimedia theater piece, Isolated Incidents, weaves together poetry, monologue, music, and visual art to address police brutality and racial violence with a...

Aids Doctors: Voices from the Epidemic.
January 1, 2002... By Ronald Bayer and Gerald M. Oppenheimer. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 310 pp. Hardbound $25.00. It has now been twenty years since the first cases of AIDS appeared, and during the epidemic years of 1981 to 1998, more than...

Witnesses to Nuremberg: an Oral History of American Participants at the War Crimes Trials.
January 1, 2002... By Bruce M. Stave and Michele Palmer with Leslie Frank. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1998. 241 pp. Hardbound $34.00. The International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg in 1945-46 and the twelve American trials that followed were rich not only...

Interracialism and Christian Community in the Postwar South: the Story of Koinonia Farm.
January 1, 2002... By Tracy Elaine K'Meyer. Charlottesville, Virginia: University Press of Virginia, 1997.236 pp. $15.50. Koinonia Farm was a beacon-light to mainstream Protestants interested in racial issues, especially in the South, prior to the mid-1960s....

Everybody's Grandmother and Nobody's Fool: Frances Freeborn Pauley and the Struggle for Social Justice.
January 1, 2002... By Kathryn Nasstrom. Foreword by Julian Bond. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2000. 221 pp. Hardbound $26.00. Frances Freeborn Pauley was in her mid-eighties in 1991 when Kathryn Nasstrom, then a doctoral student at University...

Taking History to Heart: The Power of the Past in Building Social Movements.
January 1, 2002... By James Green. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000. 324 pp. Hardbound $50.00; Softbound $19.95. For over thirty years, Jim Green has been a prominent contributor to what he calls "movement history"--"the body of work produced...

Hiring the Black Worker: Racial Integration of the Southern Textile Industry, 1960-1980.
January 1, 2002... By Timothy Minchin. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. 329 pp. Softbound $19.95 Timothy Minchin has brought life to a neglected aspect of the Civil Rights Movement in this study of the desegregation of the southern...

What Do We Need A Union For? The TWUA in the South, 1945-1955.
January 1, 2002... By Timothy J. Minchin. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. 285 pps. Softbound $45.00; Paperback $16.95. The majority of historical studies of southern textile workers have examined the inability of textile unions to...

War and Memory in Malaysia and Singapore.
January 1, 2002... Edited by Lira Pui Huen and Diana Wong. Singapore, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2000. 193 pp. Softbound $24.90. It is now almost sixty years since Pearl Harbor. Hollywood has helped us once more to "remember" December 7, 1941 and...

Storied Lives: Japanese American Students and World War II.
January 1, 2002... By Gary Y. Okihiro. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. 182 pp. + xiv. Of course, as all oral historians come to learn, everyone's life is a storied life. It used to be, decades ago, that the only subjects chosen for an...

Sense of History: the Place of the Past in American Life.
January 1, 2002... By David Glassberg. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001. 267 pp. Hardbound $50.00; Softbound $18.95. In Sense of History, David Glassberg has compiled a collection of essays written over a ten-year period that offers a highly...

Nameless Towns: Texas Sawmill Communities, 1889-1942.
January 1, 2002... By Thad Sitton and James H. Conrad. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998. 257 pp. Hardbound $37.50; Softbound $18.95. My early childhood memories are of a company logging town, deep in the rugged and remote Clearwater Forest in Idaho, a...