The Oral History Review articles from June 2001

The Oral History Review archives from June 2001

Oral history and migrant wage labor: sources of narrative distortion.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... Introduction The collecting of oral histories as a method for enhancing our understanding of the past has often suffered from accusations of distortion and faulty memory on the part of narrators. Although not new, such criticisms...

Three lives of Saodat: Communist, Uzbek, survivor.
June 22, 2001... What is the agency of the oral history subject in telling her own life story? Saodat Shamsieva, a journalist, editor, and a member of Uzbekistan's Communist Party from 1933 to 1991, related three versions of her life at three historical...

"We got the best of that world": a case for the study of nostalgia in the oral history of school segregation. (1).
June 22, 2001... Nostalgia. [NL, fr. Gk nostos return home + algos pain, grief] 1: HOMESICKNESS 2: wistful yearning for something past or irrecoverable. (2) Recent histories of school segregation raise questions about oral history and the reliability of...

"Fighting with our tongues": the politics of genre in aboriginal oral histories.
June 22, 2001... I want to begin this paper, which examines the politics of genre in Aboriginal oral histories, by offering a brief account of the context that provoked its writing. I do this in order to outline this paper's historical conditions of production....

An interview with Alice Hoffman.(Interview)
June 22, 2001... CHARLES HARDY: Well, shall we start right in? ALICE HOFFMAN: Yeah, here we are, let's start right in. CH: Okay, so why don't we start at the beginning with some personal background. AH: Okay. I don't know quite what to define as...

Stories From The Collection: Columbia University Oral History Research Office. (Media Reviews).(Review)
June 22, 2001... STORIES FROM THE COLLECTION: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ORAL HISTORY RESEARCH OFFICE. Produced by Charles Hardy III. New York: Columbia University, 1998. CD-ROM, 70 minutes. Sale: $10. Oral History Research Office, Columbia University, 801 Butler...

Oral Histories Online. (Media Reviews).(Review)
June 22, 2001... ORAL HISTORIES ONLINE. Berkeley, CA: University of California Berkeley, Regional Oral History Office, 2000. http://www.lib. berkeley.edu/BANC/ROHO/ohonline. "Wouldn't it be wonderful if researchers could discover an oral history by...

Bridgeport Working: Voices From The 20th Century. (Media Reviews).(Review)
June 22, 2001... BRIDGEPORT WORKING: VOICES FROM THE 20th CENTURY. Directed By Mary K. Witkowski, with chief interviewer John Soltis. Bridgeport Public Library, Bridgeport, CT. http://www.bridgeporthistory. org/. Bridgeport Working: Voices from the 20th...

Intervista (Finding The Words). (Media Reviews).(Review)
June 22, 2001... INTERVISTA (FINDING THE WORDS). Director, Anri Sala. New York: West Glen Films, 1998. Color, 25 minute video. West Glen Films, 1430 Broadway, New York, NY 10018-3396. 1(800)325-8677. What would you do if you had an oral history complete...

All We Knew Was To Farm: Rural Women In The Upcountry South. (Book Reviews).(Review)
June 22, 2001... ALL WE KNEW WAS TO FARM: RURAL WOMEN IN THE UPCOUNTRY SOUTH, 1919-1941. By Melissa Walker. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 341 pp. Hardbound, $42.50. It is hard to read this book without your heart breaking for the scrappy...

"Before This Decade Is Out ...": Personal Reflections On The Apollo Program. (Book Reviews).(Review)
June 22, 2001... "BEFORE THIS DECADE IS OUT...": PERSONAL REFLECTIONS ON THE APOLLO PROGRAM. Edited by Glen E. Swanson. Washington, DC: NASA History Office, 1999. 408 pp. Hardbound, $38.00. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy presented Americans with the...

Momentous Events, Vivid Memories. (Book Reviews).(Review)
June 22, 2001... MOMENTOUS EVENTS, VIVID MEMORIES. By David B. Pillemer. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. 244 pp. Hardbound, $36.50; Softbound, $17.95. In the nineties psychologists doing research on memory have presented findings of importance...

Remembering Our Past: Studies In Autobiographical Memory. (Book Reviews).(Review)
June 22, 2001... REMEMBERING OUR PAST: STUDIES IN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY. Edited by David C. Rubin. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Hardbound, $59.95; Softbound, $21.95. In the nineties psychologists doing research on memory have presented...

Talking Nets: An Oral History Of Neural Networks. (Book Reviews).(Review)
June 22, 2001... TALKING NETS: AN ORAL HISTORY OF NEURAL NETWORKS. Edited by James A. Anderson and Edward Rosenfeld. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998. 434 pp. Hardbound, $41.95. Talking Nets is a compilation of interviews conducted by the editors with...

From The Old Country: An Oral History Of European Migration to America. (Book Reviews).(Review)
June 22, 2001... FROM THE OLD COUNTRY: AN ORAL HISTORY OF EUROPEAN MIGRATION TO AMERICA. By Bruce M. Stave and John E Sutherland, with Aldo Salerno. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1994. 281 pp. Hardbound, $22.95. It's been fifty years since...

An Enduring Legacy: The Story Of Basques In Idaho. (Book Reviews).(Review)
June 22, 2001... AN ENDURING LEGACY: THE STORY OF BASQUES IN IDAHO. By John and Mark Bieter. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2000. 191 pp. Hardbound, $31.95. It's been fifty years since Oscar Handlin's epiphany that "the immigrant is American history,"...

Missing Stories: An Oral History Of Ethnic And Minority Groups In Utah. (Book Reviews).(Review)
June 22, 2001... MISSING STORIES: AN ORAL HISTORY OF ETHNIC AND MINORITY GROUPS IN UTAH. By Leslie G. Kelen and Eileen Hallet Stone. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2000. 518 pp. Hardbound, $24.95. It's been fifty years since Oscar Handlin's epiphany...

Dialogues In Public Art. (Book Reviews).(Review)
June 22, 2001... DIALOGUES IN PUBLIC ART. By Tom Finkelpearl. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000. 453 pp. Hardbound, $34.36. What has come to be called "public art" has been the hybrid progeny of two disparate movements. On the one hand, it began with the...

California Soul: Music Of African Americans In The West. (Book Reviews).(Review)
June 22, 2001... CALIFORNIA SOUL: MUSIC OF AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE WEST Edited by Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje and Eddie S. Meadows. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 507 pp. Hardbound, $60; Softbound, $24.95. California Soul provides a...

Ordinary Lives: Platoon 1005 And The Vietnam War. (Book Reviews).(Review)
June 22, 2001... ORDINARY LIVES: PLATOON 1005 AND THE VIETNAM WAR. By W. D. Ehrhart. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999. 334 pp. Hardbound, $20.50. The bus came to a halt at two in the morning with eighty recruits aboard, quiet as mice in...

The Soldier's Story. (Book Reviews).(Review)
June 22, 2001... THE SOLDIER'S STORY. By Ron Steinman. New York: TV Books, 1999. 367 pp. Hardbound, $27.95. The bus came to a halt at two in the morning with eighty recruits aboard, quiet as mice in contemplation of what was in store for them. A massive...

The Urban Indian Experience. (Book Reviews).(Review)
June 22, 2001... THE URBAN INDIAN EXPERIENCE. By Donald L. Fixico. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000. 251 pp. Hardbound, $35; Softbound, $17.95. In the first ethnohistory of modern urban Indians, Donald L. Fixico, director of the Indigenous...

World War II And The American Indian. (Book Reviews).(Review)
June 22, 2001... WORLD WAR II AND THE AMERICAN INDIAN. By Kenneth William Townsend. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000. 272 pp. Hardbound, $35.00. In the first ethnohistory of modern urban Indians, Donald L. Fixico, director of the...

Families, History, And Social Change: Life Course & Cross-Cultural Perspectives. (Book Reviews).(Review)
June 22, 2001... FAMILIES, HISTORY, AND SOCIAL CHANGE: LIFE COURSE & CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES. By Tamara K. Hareven. Boulder: Westview Press, 1999. 374 pp. Hardbound, $75.00; Softbound, $28.00. Oral historians are likely to know Tamara Hareven for her...

It's Gone; Did You Notice? A History Of The Mesabi Range Village Of Franklin, Minnesota, 1892-1994. (Book Reviews).(Review)
June 22, 2001... IT'S GONE; DID YOU NOTICE? A HISTORY OF THE MESABI RANGE VILLAGE OF FRANKLIN, MINNESOTA, 1892-1994. By Barbara A. Milkovich. Huntington Beach, CA: Joseph J. Milkovich and Associates, 2000. 170 pp. Softbound, $21.95. The Iron Range has...