The Oral History Review articles from June 1999

The Oral History Review archives from June 1999

Reflections on Oral History in the New Millennium: Roundtable Comments.
June 22, 1999... From First Generation Oral Historians to Fourth and Beyond Introduction It is a rather daunting task that we have been assigned, particularly since the very word "millennium" carries so much weight for those who inhabit the Western,...

Interviews with Robert Bowie: The Use of Oral Testimony in Writing the Biography of Professor Robert Richardson Bowie, Washington Policy Planner and Harvard University Professor.
June 22, 1999... In the latter part of the twentieth century biographers and historians increasingly use evidence from interviews with their subjects as part of the rich multimedia of sources available for presenting history.(1) Scholars use testimonies from...

The Vietnam War and the Teaching and Writing of Oral History: The Reliability of the Narrator.
June 22, 1999... I have little sense of place having grown up on the other side of the world and returned home to foreigners on foreign soil. Not once does the family ask questions--as if I'd gone off for the weekend to fish or...

From Oral History to Movie Script: The Vietnam Veteran Interviews for Coming Home.
June 22, 1999... In fact, man, they told us in Nam, man, when you got off the plane that the hippies would try to kill you. Man, we all believed it, we all had hand guns.... We all came back with hand guns, some dude up in Chicago wound up with a whole hand...

Uncovering a Silent Betrayal: Using Oral History to Explore the Impact of McCarthyism on the Profession of Social Work in the United States.
June 22, 1999... Introduction Although seldom discussed, the politics of anti-Communism (often labeled McCarthyism) in the post-World War II era had a long-lasting influence on domestic social policies and the development of the social work profession.(1)...

An Interview with Samuel Hand: "Reel Life: The Early Years of the OHA/OHR".
June 22, 1999... TRACY K'MEYER: I want to start with your educational background, then how did you get to be an historian. Could you tell me about when you were young, what you wanted to be when you grew up? SAMUEL HAND: I really didn't have great...

Oral History in Brazil: Development and Challenges.
June 22, 1999... In the case of Brazil, as in Latin America in general--or at least in those countries which only recently lived through the syndrome of military dictatorships--the emergence of oral history was directly tied to the process of...

Oral History in China: Contemporary Topics and New Hurdles.
June 22, 1999... Aside from being one of the most ancient civilizations in Asia, China, the most populous country in the world, is also home to the richest store of preserved historical records dating as far back as five thousand years. Over the past several...

Oral History on the Web.
June 22, 1999... MIAMI VALLEY CULTURAL HERITAGE PROJECT: ORAL HISTORY AND FOLKLORE OF THE MIAMI VALLEY, OHIO. Created and maintained by Marjorie. L. McLellan. 1998. Website, http://www.muohio.edu/oralhistory. The Miami Valley Cultural Heritage Project...

Talking About the Southwest.(Review)
June 22, 1999... WRITING THE SOUTHWEST. Produced by David K. Dunaway. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, Department of English, 1995. 13 radio broadcasts. 7 cassette tapes [13 programs], $45.00; 3 cassette tapes [6 programs] $23.00; 2 cassette tapes [4...

Singing Oral History.(Review)
June 22, 1999... OYATE TA OLOWAN: "SONGS OF THE PEOPLE." By Milt and Jamie Lee. Rapid City, S.D.: Lee Productions, 1998. 26 audiotapes, $13 each plus $2 shipping and handling. 3907 Minnekahta Drive, Rapid City, SD 57702, 1(800)486-8940; Web site,...

Voices From the Moroccan Resistance.(Review)
June 22, 1999... STILL READY: THREE WOMEN FROM THE MOROCCAN RESISTANCE. Producer, Alison Baker; Director, Hakim Belabbes. 1998. 51 minute video (1/2" video format). Purchase price $200, rental price $75. 1(800)343-5540. Accompanies the book Voices of Resistance...

"History As Told By the People Who Lived It".(Review)
June 22, 1999... PEOPLE'S CENTURY 1900-1999. Executive producer Zvi Dor-Ner. Boston, London: WGBH and the BBC, 1998. 26 episodes. $19.95 per episode with thematic boxed sets available. 1(800)255-9424. People's Century 1900-1999 is a twenty-six-episode...

No Stranger to Hard Rimes: Three Studies of Women in Poverty.(Review)
June 22, 1999... NOT OUR KIND OF GIRL: UNRAVELING THE MYTHS OF BLACK TEENAGE MOTHERHOOD. By Elaine Bell Kaplan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. 254 pp. Hardbound, $45.00; Softbound, $15.95. THROUGH MY OWN EYES: SINGLE MOTHERS AND THE...

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A GENERATION: ITALY, 1968.(Review)
June 22, 1999... AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A GENERATION: ITALY, 1968. By Luisa Passerini. Translated by Lisa Erdberg. Hanover: Wesleyan University Press, 1996. 166 pp. Hardbound $25.00. In Autobiography of a Generation: Italy, 1968, prominent writer and theorist of...

WE WERE EACH OTHER'S PRISONERS: AN ORAL HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II AMERICAN AND GERMAN PRISONERS OF WAR.(Review)
June 22, 1999... WE WERE EACH OTHER'S PRISONERS: AN ORAL HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II AMERICAN AND GERMAN PRISONERS OF WAR. By Lewis H. Carlson. New York: Harper-Collins, 1997. 258 pp. Hardbound, $25.00. During World War II, almost 94,000 American servicemen...

MINEFIELDS AND MINISKIRTS: AUSTRALIAN WOMEN AND THE VIETNAM WAR.(Review)
June 22, 1999... MINEFIELDS AND MINISKIRTS: AUSTRALIAN WOMEN AND THE VIETNAM WAR. By Siobhan McHugh. Sydney: Doubleday, 1993. 295 pp. Helen Keayes, an Australian secretary, spent two years as an information specialist for the U.S. Army in Vietnam. During...

GRANNY MIDWIVES AND BLACK WOMEN WRITERS: DOUBLE-DUTCHED READINGS.(Review)
June 22, 1999... GRANNY MIDWIVES AND BLACK WOMEN WRITERS: DOUBLE-DUTCHED READINGS. By Valerie Lee. New York: Routledge, 1996. 202 pp. Hardbound, $59.95; Softbound, $16.95. Medical history and women's history would be incomplete without documentation of...

THEIR DAY IN THE SUN: WOMEN OF THE 1932 OLYMPICS.(Review)
June 22, 1999... THEIR DAY IN THE SUN: WOMEN OF THE 1932 OLYMPICS. By Doris H. Pieroth. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996. 186 pp. Hardbound $30.00; Softbound, $16.95. Doris H. Pieroth has written a solidly researched chronicle of the United...

EAST TO AMERICA: KOREAN AMERICAN LIFE STORIES.(Review)
June 22, 1999... EAST TO AMERICA: KOREAN AMERICAN LIFE STORIES. Edited by Elaine H. Kim and Eui-Young Yu. New York: New Press, 1996. 386 pp. Hardbound, $25.00; Softbound, $14.95. East to America: Korean American Life Stories takes its title from a twist on...

MAKING PCR: A STORY OF BIOTECHNOLOGY.(Review)
June 22, 1999... MAKING PCR: A STORY OF BIOTECHNOLOGY. By Paul Rabinow. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. 190 pp. Hardbound, $22.50. The more complex science gets, it seems, the more it affects us. We need skillful analysts. But what tools shall...

CRAFTING SCIENCE: A SOCIOHISTORY OF THE QUEST FOR THE GENETICS OF CANCER.(Review)
June 22, 1999... CRAFTING SCIENCE: A SOCIOHISTORY OF THE QUEST FOR THE GENETICS OF CANCER. By Joan Fujimura. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1996. 322 pp. Hardbound, $45.00. The more complex science gets, it seems, the more it affects...

Oral History in China: Contemporary Topics and New Hurdles.
June 22, 1999... Aside from being one of the most ancient civilizations in Asia, China, the most populous country in the world, is also home to the richest store of preserved historical records dating as far back as five thousand years. Over the past several...