The Oral History Review articles from June 22 1998

The Oral History Review archives from June 22 1998

Practice and Pedagogy: Oral History in the Classroom(Practice and Pedagogy: Oral History in the Classroom)
June 22, 1998... In the last fifteen years oral history has been transformed by practitioners who have developed a new awareness of the methodological, analytical, and interpretive depth of their craft. Oral history, the most narrative of all disciplines, has...

An educational exchange: teaching oral history on the post-secondary level.(Practice and Pedagogy: Oral History in the Classroom)(Panel Discussion)
June 22, 1998... We conceived this roundtable as a way to exchange ideas about the theories and practices of teaching oral history and to create a forum for instructors to discuss curricula and methodologies for the college classroom. The session was held at...

"It's not just common sense": a blueprint for teaching oral history.(Practice and Pedagogy: Oral History in the Classroom)
June 22, 1998... Introduction Imagine an oral historian in a conversation with a student and a colleague from another fieldwork-based discipline. The student asks, "Isn't oral history just common sense?" The colleague asks, "Can you really teach...

Values and methods in the classroom transformation of oral history.(Practice and Pedagogy: Oral History in the Classroom)
June 22, 1998... History offers no answers per se. It only offers a way of encouraging men [sic] to use their minds to make their own history. William Appleman Williams Despite the possibility of quite different formats and audiences,...

Situating stories: the surprising consequences of oral history.(Practice and Pedagogy: Oral History in the Classroom)
June 22, 1998... A lack of courage allows us to remain blinded to our history and deaf to the cries of our past. Maya Angelou(1) For almost two decades, I have incorporated oral history assignments into my upper division undergraduate...

A short reflection on teaching memoir and oral history.(Practice and Pedagogy: Oral History in the Classroom)
June 22, 1998... It might seem that memoir and oral history, although both forms of life narrative, do not have much in common. One text is written, the other oral; one demands an individual author, while in the other "authorship" exists in the interplay...

Oral History for the Local Historical Society, 3rd ed.
June 22, 1998... ORAL HISTORY FOR THE LOCAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Third revised edition. By Willa K. Baum. Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1987. Walnut Creek, California: AltaMira Press, 1995.68 pp. Softbound, $12.95. Many years...

The Voice of the Past: Oral History, 2nd ed.
June 22, 1998... THE VOICE OF THE PAST: ORAL HISTORY. Second edition. By Paul Thompson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. 314 pp. Hardbound, $39.95; Softbound, $19.95. Many years ago at a regional oral history conference, I met a man who proudly told...

Doing Oral History.
June 22, 1998... DOING ORAL HISTORY. By Donald A. Ritchie. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1995. 265 pp. Hardbound, $26.95; Softbound, $14.95. Many years ago at a regional oral history conference, I met a man who proudly told me that in his retirement years he...

Recording Oral History: A Practical Guide for Social Scientists.
June 22, 1998... RECORDING ORAL HISTORY: A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR SOCIAL SCIENTISTS. By Valerie Raleigh Yow. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, 1994. 284 pp. Hardcover, $48.00; Softbound, $21.95. Many years ago at a regional oral history conference,...

Oral History: An Interdisciplinary Anthology, 2nd ed.
June 22, 1998... ORAL HISTORY: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY ANTHOLOGY. Second edition. Edited by David K. Dunaway and Willa K. Baum. Walnut Creek, California: AltaMira Press, 1996. 432 pp. Hardbound, $48.00; Softbound, $23.95. Many years ago at a regional oral...

Beyond the page: nonprint oral history resources for educators.
June 22, 1998... Oral history, by its very nature, lends itself well to nonprint media. An interview starts as a spoken dialogue or performance which is situated within a specific context and is then recorded on either audiotape or videotape. What remains...